title: Clinical performance data in learner needs identification. Applying the quality assurance process to continuing medical education.
abstract: Effective learning is best defined as performance change when change is needed. The best organization for dealing with learner needs is the hospital. Patient care data can be aggregated within a hospital and will provide a large enough sample to be reliably assessed. Discovering the data, identifying personally with the data, and perceiving change are achievable at the hospital. The director of medical education has a responsibility to develop curriculum for the learners from performance data. Examples are presented.
authors.affiliation: St. Vincent's Medical Center, Bridgeport.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Garrell
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000592:standards*; D006761:Hospitals; D007256:Information Systems; D007858:Learning; D008499:Medical Records; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care