Continuing dental education: reasonable answers to unreasonable questions.
Increasing government involvement in health care, interest in consumerism, and improved instructional technology have raised new challenges for continuing dental education. Arguments from educational research and evaluation theory are used to show the potential dangers involved in compulsory, mass-media continuing education with pre- and posttest measures of success.
D001519:Behavior; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003479:Curriculum; D004498:Education, Dental, Continuing; D008005:Licensure, Dental; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D013690:Television; D014481:United States; D014743:Videotape Recording