Determining continuing medical education curricula for general practitioners--a survey of self-perceived needs.
Determining the curriculum content of continuing medical education programmes is an important, but problematic element of all programme planning in continuing professional education. Surveying the participants' (self-perceived) needs has the advantage over most other methods in guaranteeing accompanying high levels of learner motivation because of perceived relevance. A study of 474 general practitioners' perceived needs of five general topic areas of continuing medical education is reviewed, showing the degrees of interest in the eighty-seven topics and the ways in which such results can be utilised in future educational planning.
D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires