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Promoting Lifelong Learning in Medicine and Nursing
An Initiative of The Association of American Medical Colleges
and The American Association of Colleges of Nursing
The Josiah Macy Foundations' (JMF) November 2007 conference on
continuing education in the health professions has raised sizable
public and professional awareness of the need for change in this
last and longest phase of health professionals' education (1). The
report's articulation of two major areas—the need for complete
separation of commercial interest from all accredited continuing
education (CE) in medicine and nursing, and for reform of the accreditation
of continuing education—has achieved widespread public airing.
Less publicized but important recommendations from the JMF report
that emphasize the development, testing, and support for a more
effective model of CE, increasing its linkage to competency and
performance.
In this context, the JMF, with support from the AAMC and the American
Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), intends to host a working
conference on the content, delivery of continuing education and
its linkages to clinical performance and health care outcomes. Focused
on a distillation of the recommendations of these reports, and with
a strong action orientation, the initiative's goal is to facilitate
the development of working structures to ensure the implementation
of recommendations regarding more effective delivery of CE.
Participants-only discussion forum
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