- Half day program (longer experience)
- Series of short (25–30-minute) didactic lectures, with several audience response system questions designed to promote faculty-learner interaction.
- Patient communication: participants watched a video about the correct use of inhaler devices (to enhance their patient education skills)
- Practice intervention: workshop focused on a detailed case discussion, with challenges related to diagnosis, staging, initial treatment, and management of COPD exacerbations, and follow-up care.
- Skills intervention: workshop, learners participated in hands-on demonstrations of handheld spirometers, and engaged in active role playing of spirometry coaching, reading, and interpretation to reinforce accurate office spirometry use.
- Measure non-satisfaction outcomes
- comparing responses to a series of case vignettes from physicians who participated in a CME activity with those obtained from a comparable group of physicians who did not receive the same education
- more likely to recognize COPD correctly in a patient presenting with dyspnea (74% versus 94%).
- Poor response rate (33% vs. 19%)
- Not changes over time
- Not related to patient outcomes
Reference:
- Measuring the impact of a live, case-based, multiformat, interactive continuing medical education program on improving clinician knowledge and competency in evidence-based COPD care. Drexel C, Jacobson A, Hanania NA, Whitfield B, Katz J, Sullivan T. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2011;6:297-307. Epub 2011 May 23. PMID: 21697994 Free PMC Article