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Volume 16 (3)
Volume 16, Issue 3, Summer 1996
J Contin Educ Health Prof 1996; 16(3):167-172
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
The Educationally Influential Physician
Jeoffrey K. Stross, MD
A b s t r a c t
The existence of physicians who were educationally influential to their peers was
confirmed by a series of studies in the 1960s. Methodology to facilitate their identification led
to several studies that confirmed their role in the dissemination of information. It was originally
thought that the educationally influential physician had its greatest use in continuing
medical education. The changes in undergraduate and graduate medical education curriculum
now suggest that the educationally influential physician may be operational across the
continuum of medical education. The use of small group discussions and reliance on community-
based practitioners demands that the concepts of information dissemination be integrated
into curricula for medical students and house officers. Depending on location, specialties,
practice type, and learning style, different approaches to information dissemination are possible.
As educators strive to incorporate the concepts of evidence-based medicine and lifelong
learning into the curriculum, they need to make students aware of the resources that are available
to facilitate their learning.
Keywords: Educational influential; informal communication; information dissemination
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