Continuing physician education: the Health Learning Systems approach

Abstract

In the past 10 years, Jack Filer has served as executive editor for a series of five separate national education programs on infant nutrition. Four of these have been directed towards physicians and the last been developed for mothers. He was assisted by a group of associate editors with expertise in various areas, as needed, depending on the material to be developed. The educational programs have included closed-circuit live telecasts, films and slides for use in a visiting faculty program, monographs and newsletters, and videotapes for maternal instruction. The nutritional guidelines for infant feeding emphasized throughout the recommendations of the Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics to promote breast-feeding with commercial infant formula as an alternative if breast-feeding is not elected or stopped early. Delayed introduction of solid food and cow milk was also recommended.