CME Courses Designed For Primary Care Physicians And Other Health Professionals

By Adriana Noton


Continuing medical education (CME) courses are designed to allow health professionals to effectively revise their skills and knowledge to incorporate new ideas, techniques and other developments in their specific field of practice. These courses also allow professionals to interact with their peers. Given these benefits, continuing education is an important component of active professional life. CME courses are arranged by experienced education providers for surgeons, general practice physicians, medical specialists, registered nurses, medical administrators and other health professionals.

The sessions are intensive, focused and organized either as participatory seminars or formal instructional courses. The sessions are typically short term, extending over a few days. Sessions are usually scheduled during the morning ending at lunchtime, leaving the afternoon as free time to pursue private study or other activities.

Continuing education programs cover a wide range of medical and business subjects. Medical topics include specialist areas such as Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Neurology, New Drug Therapies and so on. More general medical discussions might include Health Issues for Women and Health Issues for Men. Business topics include Management Techniques for Private Medical Practice; Techniques for Better Receivables Collection; Strategic Marketing of Health Services and General Management for Medical Administrators. Business sessions are just as popular as medical sessions.

Attendee numbers at each session are deliberately kept low to assist participation and ensure personalized training. Most sessions are led by tenured doctors who intimately understand the specific needs of primary care clinicians. They are also well-known experts in their field of practice. Many are also attached to influential medical or academic institutions including Albert Einstein, Mayo Clinic, Baylor, Mount Sinai, Cleveland Clinic, NYU, Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins and Yale.

There are several advantages to attending CME sessions. Course attendees are able to combine their continuing medical education with their vacation. They can usually take advantage of group discounts on hotel costs and other travel expenses; these discounts sometimes extend to family, colleagues and friends. Courses are typically scheduled for the mornings, allowing attendees the rest of the day to pursue private study or personal activities.

Continuing courses are arranged at leading hotels and resorts. This allows participants to enjoy their learning in a comfortable, pleasant, stress-free environment away from the many distractions of a busy office. Most costs associated with continuing education are allowable tax-deductions.

CME sessions are a proven and popular way for professionals to remain up-to-date. They are flexible and efficient. Skills and knowledge can be refreshed, case examples discussed and new relationships developed with peers. All these benefits amount to an education model that is used widely throughout the world.

The status of CME courses and medical meetingswas negatively tarnished after several decades of questionable practices late last century when the prescription pharmaceutical industry played a major role in financing education programs for physicians and other health professionals. That experience prompted the establishment of certifying bodies including the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME), a group that is active in the USA as well as Canada.




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