Today...
Contemporary health care is vastly more complex.
Consequently CME needs to be more focused and purposeful.
Clinicians must not only know, they must know how to, and they must do well whatever is called for by the patients they treat.
CME today must play a role at all three levels...
- Transmitting knowledge
- Enhancing competence
- Improving performance
for the sake of improved patient outcomes (quality improvement).
CME has a stake in providing clinicians with not only knowledge but practical and targeted strategies that can change
behavior and enhance performance in everyday practice.
Providers of continuing medical education are now being challenged to ask their learners:
- "What do you plan to do with the new information you have been given?"
- "What will you do differently in your practice?
- "Has doing so made a difference in your patients' health?"
