A global view of continuing medical education

✍ Scribed by Malcolm S. M. Watts

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 71 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-1912
• DOI: 10.1002/chp.4760070313

✦ Synopsis

Their paper calls attention not only to the importance to every nation in the world of the health status of its people, but also to the international flow of medical knowledge, health problems (AIDS being the most current example) and even health professionals throughout the world. And they note the obvious corollary, that CME should therefore be a world-wide endeavor that knows no political boundaries.

The reality that all who live on this planet live in one world brooks of no debate. That this reality also brings problems of world-wide concern also is undebatable. And it is a further reality that many of these problems impinge in one way or another upon human health, and to the degree that this is true, they become health problems that affect many parts of the world and so become of world-wide concern.

In another dimension, the term "continuing medical education" itself, or CME, is also coming to have a more global meaning. Not only must CME become global in concept, but the word "medical" in it requires a broader, if not in a sense, a more global interpretation. In this dimension CME is not only for physicians, but for all the health professions as well. In this journal we have used the phrase "continuing education for health professionals" or CEHP to emphasize this more "global" scope for CME. It is more global whether one happens to be thinlung in geographic or semantic terms. But to return to "realities" it turns out that when interpreted broadly, CME and CEHP are one and . . . the same.

Clearly in these times and on this planet, a global view of health care is needed, and this will require more attention to a more global approach to continuing education for and among the