Abstract
This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Introduction Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is an important part of a physician's professional life. Yet, providing effective in-service training solutions is a persistent challenge for CPD planners. Methods Primary care physicians are frequently confronted with skin lesionsthey feel ill-prepared to manage. A dermatology Learning-by-concordance (LbC) online activity was developed and offered to family physicians for CPD credit. We were interested in finding out whether this online tool was suitable for CPD. Following a pilot phase, the on-line activity was launched and 45 geographically dispersed primary care physicians completed it. They participated in a telephone conference a week later with an expert to discuss outstanding questions. Evaluation was carried out by a survey that was available immediately after the last case. Results Participants found the on-line training tool user friendly and should be implemented on a larger scale. Participants found the dermatology concepts discussed allowed them to increase their knowledge and apply it to their practice. Discussion Among the strengths of LbC is that the learning task resemble those of a primary physician's daily practice. Finally, our study reveals that LbC is easily integrated in busy work schedules and thus is an effective learning solution for CPD.
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Introduction Continuous ProfessionalDevelopment (CPD) is an important part of a physician’s professional life
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is an important part of a physician’s professional life. (Mazmanian and Davis, 2002) A persistent challenge for CPD planners is providing accessible training for practicing clinicians juggling clinical work and personal life. (Davis et al, 2013) Given budgetary constraints and increased patient caseloads, the traditional way of conducting CPD, based on face-to-face meetings and lectures given by experts, is being challenged
Primary care physicians are frequently confronted with skin lesions they feel ill-prepared to manage. (Eichenfield et al, 2014) Primary care physicians recognized the need to brush up on their dermatology knowledge acquired during their initial training
Summary
Introduction Continuous ProfessionalDevelopment (CPD) is an important part of a physician’s professional life. An innovative solution is required that affords the possibility of distributed specialized training to a geographically dispersed group of busy in-service professionals This solution would provide access to expertise in a specific field, flexibility for course completion and minimum disruption of work schedules. The provincial association of family doctors approached the CPD team at the Faculty of medicine at the Université de Montréal, for training on this topic Their members are dispersed across the province, often practice at sites that are far from university centers making it difficult to request help from dermatologists. The challenge of delivering this curriculum was resolved by resorting to Learning-by-concordance This approach, based on script theory, (Charlin, Tardif and Boshuizen, 2000; Lubarsky et al, 2015) is increasingly being used in undergraduate and graduate medical training and is being adapted to CPD
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