Continuing medical education in China: evidence from primary health workers' preferences for continuing traditional Chinese medicine education.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Continuing Medical Education (CME) is an important part of the training process for health workers worldwide. In China, training in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) not only improves the expertise of medical workers, but also supports the Chinese Government's policy of promoting TCM as an equal treatment to western medicine. CME, including learning Traditional Chinese Medicine Technologies (TCMTs), perform poorly and research into the motivation of health workers to engage in CME is urgently required. Using a discrete choice experiment, this study assessed the CME learning preferences of primary health workers, using TCMT as a case study of CME programs.

Methods

We conducted a discrete choice experiment among health workers in Shandong Province, Guizhou Province

SUBMITTER: Yan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10623727 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature