Keeping professionally updated: Perceived coping and CME profiles among physicians
✍ Scribed by Magne Nylenna; Olaf G. Aasland; Erik Falkum
- Book ID
- 102797433
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 679 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-1912
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✦ Synopsis
The aim of this study was to investigatephysicians'coping with the increasing body of medical knowledge and the relation between this coping and their continuing medical education (CME) activities. A cross-sectional postal survey among a randomized sample of 1476 Norwegian physicians was conducted. The main outcome measure was a self-reported ability to obtain sufficient information to keep updated in their daily work. The relative risks of being a coper are given as odds ratios (ORs) for the categories of seven hypothetical predictor variables. The response rate was 70.596, with 68.5% of the physicians reporting that they are able to obtain the sufficient information for keeping updated. In a multiple logistic regression analy-