Medical education

Continuing medical education needs a tutor, not a lecture

Like most physicians, I have earned a great many continuing medical education credits in rooms where I learned very little. A slide deck, a speaker reading the slides aloud, a ten-question quiz at the end that anyone could pass by…

Like most physicians, I have earned a great many continuing medical education credits in rooms where I learned very little. A slide deck, a speaker reading the slides aloud, a ten-question quiz at the end that anyone could pass by recognizing the longest answer. The credits counted. Whether my practice changed is another question.

I am an endocrinologist and a geneticist. Both fields move quickly. Genetic variant classifications get revised, new …

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Continuing medical education needs a tutor, not a lecture