Evaluating the impact of continuing professional development courses on physician behavioral intention: a pre-post study with follow-up at six months.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Continuing professional development (CPD) for health professionals includes educational activities to maintain or improve skills. We evaluated the impact of a series of CPD courses by identifying factors influencing physicians' intention to adopt targeted behaviors and assessing self-reported behavior adoption six months later.

Methods

In this pre-post study, eligible participants attended at least one in-person course at the Fédération des Médecins Spécialistes du Québec annual meeting in November 2019. Before and afterwards, participants completed CPD-REACTION, a validated questionnaire based on Godin's integrated model for health professional behavior change that measures intention and psychosocial factors influencing intention. We used Wilcoxon signed-rank tes

SUBMITTER: Bakwa Kanyinga F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10476392 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature