Primary health care professionals' opinions regarding continuing medical education: A cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Continuing medical education (CME) is the foremost among the learning strategies that enhance knowledge and skills within the medical profession. This study aimed to evaluate primary healthcare professionals' CME in Abha City. A total of 267 primary health care (PHC) professionals. The researcher designed a data collection sheet that comprised personal characteristics and aspects of CME. About two-thirds of participants (65.5%) attended CME courses during the last year. The main criteria for attending CME courses were their topics (43.4%), convenience of time (41.2%), and interests (31.5%). About 16.1% of participants found that previously attended CME courses were not useful because of being a waste of time (12.7%), not obtaining any benefit (7.9%), and wasting of money (3.7%). On the oth

SUBMITTER: Hassan Alshehri HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11651445 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature