Emergency physicians perspectives of state continuing medical education requirements for medical licensure.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to better understand the perspectives of emergency medicine physicians' on the role that state-mandated, topic-specific continuing medical education (CME) plays in addressing knowledge gaps, its relevance to current emergency practice, its reported burden and costs of CME activities to emergency physicians, and its perceived improvement in patient care.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey was designed by the Coalition of Board-Certified Emergency Physicians (COBCEP) and distributed in February 2023 to all American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM)-certified physicians. Statistical tests of significance (Pearson's chi-square and Fisher's exact test) assessed the cost and time spent on CME as well as the perceived value placed on CME by ABEM-certified

SUBMITTER: Gausche-Hill M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11462927 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature