The vision and the reality

✍ Scribed by Malcolm S. M. Watts

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 51 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-1912
• DOI: 10.1002/chp.4760070314

✦ Synopsis

THE VISION AND THE REALITY

lsewhere in this issue Tillack and colleagues present a fanciful E vision of a university medical school "learning center" that would bring together all the elements that are necessary for achieving excellence in continuing medical education. While the focus is on continuing medical education the vision and the elements of it could apply as well to continuing education for any of the health professions. This vision is derived from a survey of the CME literature from which is constructed a conceptual "learning center" that would incorporate the best of everything to be found in the published articles they reviewed.

This is an imaginative approach toward a goal that is shared by virtually all practitioners in this field. Somehow we must begin to find a framework for this developing discipline within which to fit all its various activities and their relationships to one another. The reality is that this has not yet been done, is difficult to do, both conceptually and in the face of the relatively low priority placed on continuing education by many leading medical educators. But this is what we are all about, and this is what MOBIUS is about. We must continue to probe to find ways to give more substance and more order to this important field.

Tillack and co-workers are to be commended for this probing of a vision and the reality of excellence in continuing medical education for the health professions.