|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|||
| Your Location: Home > Volume 19, Issue 4 | |||||
|
CURRENT ISSUE
BACK ISSUES SUBSCRIBE ADVERTISE ABOUT JCEHP FOR AUTHORS JCEHP AWARD SEARCH (Members only) FULL-TEXT |
Volume 19 (4)
Volume 19, Issue 4, Fall 1999 
J Contin Educ Health Prof 1999; 19(4):242-249
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Michael W. Peterson, MD, FACP A b s t r a c t The Internet is a powerful communication tool. It offers new and novel ways to provide continuing medical education (CME) to health care professionals. However, it is not yet clear whether universities and university medical schools are using this new technology. Also, few standards exist for controlling and measuring content quality on the Internet. To address these issues, 205 different Internet host computers offering CME information were identified using standard Internet search engines. These sites were then reviewed by examining their sponsoring organization, type of information, and quality with respect to proposed standards for quality control. University-sponsored Internet sites most frequently provided CME information, followed by commercial sites. However, most university-sponsored sites offered only schedule information for traditional CME courses: twice the percentage of commercial sites offered on-line CME compared to university sites. Thus, more commercial sites than university sites offer on-line CME content. Between 60% and 80% of sites offering on-line CME meet proposed standards for quality control, and only 10% provide any information on content peer review. University sites performed somewhat better than commercial sites in meeting these standards. As of 1998, universities may be losing their traditional leadership in CME using the new Internet medium. Many sites offering on-line CME also do not meet minimal standards for quality control. Universities need to reassert their traditional strengths by providing CME in this new medium, and quality standards need to be applied to all CME material on the Internet. Keywords: Continuing Medical Education; Internet; Website Quality Evaluation |
|
|
JCEHP.com & The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions All rights reserved Disclaimer · About This Site · Web Editor · Make JCEHP Your Homepage Information on this site was last updated: 04 April 2012 |
||