caa a22 4500 397577516 CHVBK 20180308164859.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199609 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024518 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024518 Continuing education for public health medicine — is it just another paper exercise? [Elektronische Daten] [Yvonne Young, Stephen Brigley, Peter Littlejohns, James McEwen] In 1993 the Conference of Royal Colleges and their Faculties called for its members to develop formalized continuing medical education (CME) programmes. Most colleges have adopted a narrow definition of CME and a mechanistic approach to monitoring participation. The Faculty of Public Health Medicine has responded differently by initiating a broader model of continuing professional development (CPD) which emphasizes the individual nature of continuing education. This paper explores the rationale behind this decision. Recent systematic reviews of the effectiveness of CME have demonstrated the need for relevance in any continuing education activity. This means relevance not only to learning needs but also to current work and the applicability of the knowledge. However, the effectiveness of traditional CME for all doctors and particularly public health physicians remains to be established. Thus the Faculty has moved towards a wider context of learning in the form of CPD incorporating an evaluative approach and aspects of adult learning theory. There remains a need for the links between audit and continuing education to be strengthened. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence continuing medical education nationallicence continuing professional development nationallicence evaluation nationallicence effectiveness nationallicence Young Yvonne Health Care Evaluation Unit, St George's Hospital Medical School London SW17 ORE aut Brigley Stephen CPD Unit, Faculty of Public Health Medicine London NW1 4LB aut Littlejohns Peter CPD Unit, Faculty of Public Health Medicine London NW1 4LB aut McEwen James Faculty of Public Health Medicine London NW1 4LB aut Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 18/3(1996-09), 357-363 1741-3842 18:3<357 1996 18 pubmed https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024518 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubmed.a024518 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Young Yvonne Health Care Evaluation Unit, St George's Hospital Medical School London SW17 ORE aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brigley Stephen CPD Unit, Faculty of Public Health Medicine London NW1 4LB aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Littlejohns Peter CPD Unit, Faculty of Public Health Medicine London NW1 4LB aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McEwen James Faculty of Public Health Medicine London NW1 4LB aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 18/3(1996-09), 357-363 1741-3842 18:3<357 1996 18 pubmed Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford