Postal survey of approaches to learning among Ontario physicians: implications for continuing medical education.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand the approaches to learning of practising physicians in their workplace and to assess the relation of these approaches to their motivation for, preferred methods of, and perceived barriers to continuing medical education.

Design

Postal survey of 800 Ontario physicians.

Participants

373 physicians who responded.

Main outcome measures

Correlations of approaches to learning and perceptions of workplace climate with methods, motives, and barriers to continuing medical education.

Results

Perceived heavy workload was significantly associated with the surface disorganised (r=0.463, P<0.01) and surface rational approach (r=0.135, P<0.05) to learning. The deep approach to learning was significantly correlated with a perception of choice-in

SUBMITTER: Delva MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC135496 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature