title: Mandatory practice self-appraisal: moving towards outcomes based continuing education.
abstract: Most organized physician continuing educational activities are undertaken without assessing their effects on long-term changes in physician practice patterns, patient outcomes or return on investment. Practice audit and practice self-appraisal are two activities that can be used to achieve these objectives. It is recommended that these be promoted from an educational perspective. A series of principles, including the mandatory application of practice audit and practice self-appraisal are proposed to guide the process. The identification of issues relating to learning, diffusion of information and behavioural change required to facilitate this change are briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Continuing Medical Education, University of Manitoba, Canada.
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Donen
mesh_terms: D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D012655:Self-Evaluation Programs