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2013 Healthcare Professional Continuing Education Preference Survey

Survey Reveals Significant Clinician Demand For Online CME And Virtual Courses (View Press Release) Data collected by Elsevier’s Office of Continuing Medical Education (EOCME), AcademicCME and ArcheMedX in the summer of 2013 demonstrates that 97% of clinicians (N=801) are planning to either increase or maintain their participation in online continuing education programs during

Posted on 11 Sep 2013
By Joel Selzer
In Blog

A Roadmap for Grantsmanship in Medical Education: Applying the SACRED Principles

If there is one constant challenge in the way we innovate, evolve, and assess continuing medical education, it might be the simple reality that these efforts take resources. In response, medical educators often spend upwards of half of their time trying to find the resources that will allow them to

Posted on 12 Aug 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog, Medical Education

Is adult learning theory enough?

For the past 20 years the professional guild of healthcare educators has been increasingly leveraging adult learning theory in the development of content and in the delivery of content to clinician learners. And every few years a meta-analysis is published exploring the impact of this education on knowledge change or

Posted on 25 Jul 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog, Informatics & Analysis, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education, Rapid Learning Healthcare System

What If We Re-engineered “Focus Groups” for Learning

Focus groups have been longed used to collect information, from market research, to educational research, to guideline-building consensus development. What strikes me is that in each of these models the emphasis has been on what the groups can provide the organizers - the information gatherers. In recent years my focus

Posted on 4 Jun 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education

Improving Case-Based Learning with Learning Actions Research

One of the most common challenges we get from partners who are integrating our natural learning actions research into their educational plans is whether the model is applicable (or necessary) in case-based or problem-based initiatives. Before we explore the answer to this question I thought it is worth the time to

Posted on 15 May 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog

Nudging learners to effectively learn

For as long as I have been teaching, creating medical education, or even funding education there has always been one assumption that has bothered me about what we broadly refer to as 'adult learning,' and that is the assumption that adults KNOW how to learn. This assumption is all the

Posted on 6 May 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog, Learning Models & Theory

ReachMD Interview: “Understanding Personal Learning Strategies in Medical Education”

A few weeks back I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Lawrence Sherman as part of the ReachMD lifelong learning series produced in conjunction with the Alliance for CEhp. The interview is airing all this week on ReachMD (channel 167 on SiriusXM) and the podcast is available for download

Posted on 24 Apr 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog, Education Technology, Informatics & Analysis, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education

Putting the ‘We’ into CME

Over the course of writing #SocialQI: Simple Solutions for Improving Your Healthcare I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to interview dozens of clinicians who expressed the challenges they face with lifelong learning. As currently designed, the great majority of medical education opportunities provide isolated learning experiences - a

Posted on 19 Apr 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog, Learning Models & Theory, Medical Education

Commitment to Change Statements in CME: The Impact of the Natural Learning Actions

Over the past year as I have been building the 'Natural Learning Actions' model I have had the opportunity to speak with a whole host of medical educators and learners. One of the areas of medical education research that has consistently come up in these conversations is how a learner's

Posted on 5 Apr 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog

Motivation, Lifelong Learning, and The Natural Learning Actions

I have been a big fan of BJ Fogg for going on two years now since I first met him at a conference at Stanford in the summer of 2011. In my opinion, Dr. Fogg's work on behavior change has the ability to significantly impact much of what we know about

Posted on 29 Mar 2013
By Brian S McGowan, PhD
In Blog, Learning Models & Theory

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2013 Healthcare Professional Continuing Education Preference Survey

A Roadmap for Grantsmanship in Medical Education: Applying the SACRED Principles

Is adult learning theory enough?

What If We Re-engineered “Focus Groups” for Learning

Improving Case-Based Learning with Learning Actions Research

Nudging learners to effectively learn

ReachMD Interview: “Understanding Personal Learning Strategies in Medical Education”

Commitment to Change Statements in CME: The Impact of the Natural Learning Actions

Motivation, Lifelong Learning, and The Natural Learning Actions

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