Interactivity and skills practice:
- "Our data show some evidence that interactive CME sessions that enhance participant activity and provide the opportunity to practice skills can effect change in professional practice and, on occasion, health care outcomes" (Davis 1999).
- "The interventions that best succeed in changing performance and health care outcomes are those using practice-enabling strategies (office facilitators or patient educational methods, for example) or reinforcing methods (feedback or reminders)" (Davis 1995).
- "Strategies which enable and/or reinforce appear to 'work' in changing physician performance or health care outcomes, a finding which has significant impact on the delivery of CME, and the need for further research into physician learning and change" (Davis D 1998).
References
- Davis DA, Thomson MA, Oxman AD, Haynes RB. Changing physician performance. A systematic review of the effect of continuing medical education strategies. JAMA. 1995 Sep 6;274(9):700-5. PMID 7650822 http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/274/9/700.full.pdf+html
- Davis D. Does CME work? An analysis of the effect of educational activities on physician performance or health care outcomes. Int J Psychiatry Med. 1998;28(1):21-39. PMID 9617647
- Davis D, O'Brien MA, Freemantle N, Wolf FM, Mazmanian P, Taylor-Vaisey A. Impact of formal continuing medical education: Do conferences, workshops, rounds, and other traditional continuing education activities change physician behavior or health care outcomes? JAMA. 1999 Sep 1;282(9):867-74. PMID 10478694. http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/282/9/867.long