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EDUCATION: Mandatory practice self‐appraisal: moving towards outcomes based continuing education
Author(s) -
Donen Neil
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2753.1999.00187.x
Subject(s) - audit , identification (biology) , perspective (graphical) , critical appraisal , medical education , medicine , continuing education , psychology , clinical practice , process (computing) , nursing , business , alternative medicine , accounting , computer science , botany , pathology , artificial intelligence , biology , operating system
Most organized physician continuing educational activities are undertaken without assessing their effects on long‐term changes in physician practice patterns, patient outcomes or return on investment. Practice audit and practice self‐appraisal are two activities that can be used to achieve these objectives. It is recommended that these be promoted from an educational perspective. A series of principles, including the mandatory application of practice audit and practice self‐appraisal are proposed to guide the process. The identification of issues relating to learning, diffusion of information and behavioural change required to facilitate this change are briefly discussed.