Diversity across medical schools: Programs, enrollment, and fees for continuing medical education

✍ Scribed by Paul E. Mazmanian; R. van Harrison; Charles E. Osborne

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 608 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-1912
• DOI: 10.1002/chp.4750100105

✦ Synopsis

It is understood that the delivery of medical schoolbased continuing medical education (CME) is organizationally diverse. One hundred and twenty (120) North American medical schools were surveyed in 1986 and 1988. Data on the number and types of programs ofleered, enrollments, and fees for fiscal years 1984-85 and 1986-87 were analyzed. The number and types of CME programs, enrollments, and fees increased over the two-year period, with smaller CME units experiencing the greatest growth. As shifts occur in the funding of health care and of medical education, medical school-based CME providers are challenged to maintain largely self-supporting units, protect the integrity of program content from the influence of health care marketing, and deliver more continuing education to the workplace and homes of physi-