CME in primary care: The way forward

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The paper aims to describe the context for future continuing medical education (CME) in primary care. CME must develop the doctor's ability to look at diseases from a scientifically-based biomedical, psychological, and social perspective. It is a challenge for CME to bridge the gap between scientific evidence, and doctors' knowledge, attitude, and performance, but awareness on how to do this is scarce. CME must be better integrated with quality development, especially with the use of clinical guidelines. This is impeded by insufficient scientific evidence on the impact, advantages, and disadvantages of different CME methods, and by insufficient outcome measures of the effect of CME. Teaching the teachers should also be improved. It is concluded that the time is ripe for a scientific-based development in the conduction of CME. This may be done by establishing national research centres for CME, working together in an international network.

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Olesen, F., & Hjortdahl, P. (1999, September). CME in primary care: The way forward. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care. https://doi.org/10.1080/028134399750002511

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