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Volume 8 (4)
Volume 8, Issue 4, 1988
J Contin Educ Health Prof 1988; 8(4):271-276
MEDICINE
Personal Continuing Education Relationships between Perceived needs by Individual Physicians and Practice Profiles
Colin R. Woolf, MD, FRCP(C), FRCP
A b s t r a c t
Eighty-one physicians practicing in six small communities in Ontario, Canada, have recorded those areas on which they would like to concentrate CME activities. Practice profiles analyzing all patients seen over a four-month period were available for fifty-nine of these physicians. There was a clear relationship (by Chi-Square, p < 0.0001) between an areas of medical interest and the number of patients in the practice suffering from the particular disease system. There was high interest where there were many patients in the practice with a particular condition and a progressively lower interest in conditions where there were fewer patients seen within a disease group. Each physician was provided with a bar diagram report relating perceived needs to practice profile in order to assist the physician in developing a personal education program.
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