• Acad Med · May 1993

    Review

    "Academic" CME and the social contract.

    • D Davis and J Parboosingh.
    • Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University School of Medicine, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
    • Acad Med. 1993 May 1; 68 (5): 329-32.

    AbstractThe term academic continuing medical education (CME) is defined and explored from the perspective of forces that have made its usage necessary. These forces include the new understandings of the place, impact, and scope of CME, and, in particular, the increasing entrepreneurial interests in the field, unrelated to the improvement of physicians' competence or performance, or to health care outcomes. In addition to principles of CME provision promulgated by the Accreditation Council of CME, and those of ethical CME providers, academic CME implies the critical appraisal of the providers' activities, the creation of new knowledge about how physicians learn and change, and the dissemination of information based on such knowledge. Finally, the nature of academic CME providers is discussed, and the potential role of CME in fostering the social contract between the medical professional and society is explored.

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