Using clinical audits to identify practitioner learning needs.
Clinical audits are used in medicine to monitor practice performance, provide practice feedback, and identify learning needs. Although relatively new to veterinary practice, they hold promise as personal learning needs assessment tools. Continuing veterinary medical education providers are in a unique position to assist practitioners in the design, implementation, and evaluation of clinical audits. This paper discusses the types, the interpretation, and the potential uses of data from clinical audits in the veterinary setting and links audits to continuing veterinary medical education.
Moore
Dale A
DA
VMTRC, University of California, 18830 Rd 112, Tulare, CA 93274, USA. dmoore@vmtrc.ucdavis.edu
Klingborg
Donald J
DJ
D000818:Animals; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004520:Education, Veterinary; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008485:Medical Audit; D020380:Needs Assessment