Barriers to identifying and obtaining CME: a national survey of physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

CPD educators and CME providers would benefit from further insight regarding barriers and supports in obtaining CME, including sources of information about CME. To address this gap, we sought to explore challenges that clinicians encounter as they seek CME, and time and monetary support allotted for CME.

Methods

In August 2018, we surveyed licensed US clinicians (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants), sampling 100 respondents each of family medicine physicians, internal medicine and hospitalist physicians, medicine specialist physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants (1895 invited, 500 [26.3%] responded). The Internet-based questionnaire addressed barriers to obtaining CME, sources of CME information, and time and monetary supp

SUBMITTER: O'Brien Pott M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7975233 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature