Continuing medical education(CME)is rapidly evolving into competency-based continuing professional development(CPD)and this is driving change in self-directed CPD programs undertaken by individual practitioners as wel...Continuing medical education(CME)is rapidly evolving into competency-based continuing professional development(CPD)and this is driving change in self-directed CPD programs undertaken by individual practitioners as well as CPD programs or frameworks offered by CPD educators.This progression is being led by many factors including the rapid change in medical knowledge and medical practitioners along with changes in patients and society,healthcare systems,regulators and the political environment.We describe our experiences primarily concerning low-resource environments,in creating the International Council of Ophthalmology(ICO)Guide to Effective CPD/CME and in developing a CPD program for the Cambodian Ophthalmological Society(COS)twinned with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists(RANZCO).At the conclusion of the project,47(100%)Cambodian practicing ophthalmologists were registered in the CPD program and 21(45%)were actively participating in the online COS-CPD program recording.We discuss challenges in CPD,propose solutions to overcome them and recommend developing research in CPD as needed to effectively enhance educational activities with impact in public health.展开更多
Timely and widely available,social media(SM)platforms and tools offer new and exciting learning opportunities in medical education.Despite scarce,we sought for a body of consistent evidence allowing us to substantiall...Timely and widely available,social media(SM)platforms and tools offer new and exciting learning opportunities in medical education.Despite scarce,we sought for a body of consistent evidence allowing us to substantially approach the concept of SM and how physicians as learners and medical educators can use SM based-education to benefit their clinical practice and their patients’outcomes.We correlate education theories with the progression of world-wide web phases and how this influences the process of teaching and learning.We mention some examples of SM tools already in use in healthcare education.Potential advantages and effectiveness SM in medical education,as well as limitations of SM and pre-requisites for its use are discussed.Our concluding remarks underline the good practices in effectively utilizing SM in healthcare education.展开更多
文摘Continuing medical education(CME)is rapidly evolving into competency-based continuing professional development(CPD)and this is driving change in self-directed CPD programs undertaken by individual practitioners as well as CPD programs or frameworks offered by CPD educators.This progression is being led by many factors including the rapid change in medical knowledge and medical practitioners along with changes in patients and society,healthcare systems,regulators and the political environment.We describe our experiences primarily concerning low-resource environments,in creating the International Council of Ophthalmology(ICO)Guide to Effective CPD/CME and in developing a CPD program for the Cambodian Ophthalmological Society(COS)twinned with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists(RANZCO).At the conclusion of the project,47(100%)Cambodian practicing ophthalmologists were registered in the CPD program and 21(45%)were actively participating in the online COS-CPD program recording.We discuss challenges in CPD,propose solutions to overcome them and recommend developing research in CPD as needed to effectively enhance educational activities with impact in public health.
文摘Timely and widely available,social media(SM)platforms and tools offer new and exciting learning opportunities in medical education.Despite scarce,we sought for a body of consistent evidence allowing us to substantially approach the concept of SM and how physicians as learners and medical educators can use SM based-education to benefit their clinical practice and their patients’outcomes.We correlate education theories with the progression of world-wide web phases and how this influences the process of teaching and learning.We mention some examples of SM tools already in use in healthcare education.Potential advantages and effectiveness SM in medical education,as well as limitations of SM and pre-requisites for its use are discussed.Our concluding remarks underline the good practices in effectively utilizing SM in healthcare education.
