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Continuing Education Methods
Classroom education (meetings, conferences, rounds, courses, and
in-service training) is a tradition among health professionals.
Most of these programs employ didactic methods, demonstrated to
be effective at transmitting new knowledge or delivering updates,
but with little evidence that they produce change in the practice
of health professionals. Newer and possibly more effective models
are explored. Beyond classroom education there is a host of broadly-defined
but underutilized educational interventions exist which employ
pro-active methods and strategies to effect learning and change
in health professionals. Support from the expert panel for these
methods was widespread.
Barriers to Implementation
The panel recognized that it would be simplistic to suggest that
all CE providers simply switch their modes of needs
assessment and conference organization, or use unfamiliar educational
strategies, to comply with the literature on effective continuing
education methods. The panel identified at least two primary challenges
to the implementation of such strategies:
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