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JCEHP Emerging Best Practices in CPD
by Brian McGowan
Official podcast series from The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions (JCEHP).
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Spaced Repetition Enhances Self-Rated Learning Confidence: A Large Randomized Trial Among Practicing Family Physicians
This description is indexed by the journal search engine, please be as descriptive as possible. Metacognitive accuracy—the extent to which individuals' perceptions of their knowledge align with actual performance—is critical in clinical decision making. Overconfidence can lead to diagnostic…
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Knowledge, Power, and Technology: A Narrative Review of Knowledge-Sharing in Project ECHO
This narrative review joins an ongoing scholarly conversation about Project ECHO, a virtual educational innovation, with an aim to understand it as a technology-enabled interface that facilitates knowledge-sharing. Critical attention is paid to how dynamics of power are accounted for in the...
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Improved Activity Evaluations: An Iterative Process Using the Rasch Model
Introduction: Traditional evaluation models, often linear and outcome-focused, are increasingly inadequate for the complexities of modern medical education, which demands more comprehensive and nuanced assessment approaches. Methods: A standardized continuing professional development activity...
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Publishing Qualitative Research in the Journal for Continuing Education in the Health Professions: A Guide for Authors
A qualitative study exploring how nurses adapt to electronic health records is submitted to a journal. The reviewers agree the topic is timely and the interviews are rich, but the article is returned with a request for major revisions. Why? The research questions are vague, the sampling strategy…
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From Theory to Practice: Evaluating the Integration of Adult Learning Theory in Continuing Medical Education Activities
The underpinnings of adult learning theory are foundational to continuing medical education (CME). Several widely studied learning theories are relevant to medical providers including deliberate practice, situated learning theory and community of practice, social cognitive theory and...
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Measuring Scholarly Practice in Respiratory Therapists: The Development and Initial Validation of a Scholarly Practice Tool
Introduction: Respiratory therapists (RTs) must apply competencies to address the health care needs of the public. Although all competencies are deemed essential, scholarly practice requires that professionals critically assess their practices, integrate evidence-based literature, and enhance the...
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Considering the Cost-Effectiveness of Accredited Continuing Medical Education: A Landscape Analysis of Economic Concepts in Continuing Medical Education Research
In health care, cost-effectiveness analysis evaluates changes in health outcomes as a function of costs. The cost-effectiveness of continuing professional development for health care providers has not been historically well characterized despite substantial investment. This literature review...
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Deriving Insights From Open-Ended Learner Feedback: An Exploration of Natural Language Processing Approaches
Open-ended feedback from learners offers valuable insights for adapting continuing health education to their needs; however, this feedback is burdensome to analyze with qualitative methods. Natural language processing offers a potential solution, but it is unclear which methods provide useful...
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Serendipitous Pathways and Elusive Definitions: Leadership in Continuing Professional Development
Although the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) field has rapidly expanded in scope, breadth, and depth, there is a gap in how we understand CPD leadership and the role of the leader. Previous scholarship indicates that there is neither an agreed on set of competencies for CPD leadership...
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Developmental Coaching for Clinician Educators: Just What the Doctor Ordered
Despite intensive attempts to create scholarship equity at academic medical centers, clinician educators continue to face a challenging professional promotion environment that puts them at risk for burnout, stalled career advancement, and abandonment of academic medicine altogether. Coaching…
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Strengthening the Chain: A Continuing Medical Education Program for Test Results Follow-up
The Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA)'s Commitment to Change in Test-Results Follow-Up (CTC-TRFU) program aims to provide physicians with resources to enhance their test results follow-up systems for improved patient safety. Framed around the Transtheoretical Model, the program...
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Five Domains of a Conceptual Framework of Continuing Professional Development
We suggest a conceptual change of emphasis in designing CPD to better align it with the goals of improving health care value for patients through the dynamic incorporation of five distinct domains to be included in learning activities. We identify these domains as: (1) identifying, appraising…
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Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for Health Care Professionals: Continuing Professional Development as an Agent of Transformation Leading to Artificial Intelligence–Augmented Practice
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming society; yet, the education of health care providers in this field is lagging. In health care, where AI promises to facilitate diagnostic accuracy, and allow for personalized treatment, bridging the knowledge and skill gaps for...
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From Two Dimensions to Multidimensions: A Mechanistic Model to Support Deliberate CPD Development, Coordination, and Evaluation
What are the mechanisms by which our CPD interventions create our outcomes? Despite ever growing evidence regarding the effectiveness of continuing professional development (CPD), there are ongoing debates about CPD's utility in improving health professional behavior and patient health.…
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Applying the Project ECHO Model to Support Implementation and Sustainment of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis
Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) is a teleconsultation model that leverages technology to sustain specialized interventions in underresourced settings. We present the application of the ECHO model to longitudinal training and consultation for community behavioral health...
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The Emerging Role of Reinforcement in the Clinician's Path from Continuing Education to Practice
Continuing education (CE) activities may affect clinicians' knowledge, skills, self-efficacy, and/or performance. Studies have suggested that self-efficacy may moderate or mediate the relationship between knowledge/competence and performance. Some results have shown that increases in...
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Assessment Practices in Continuing Professional Development Activities in Health Professions - A Scoping Review
In continuing professional development (CPD), educators face the need to develop and implement innovative assessment strategies to adhere to accreditation standards and support lifelong learning. However, little is known about the development and validation of these assessment practices. We aimed...
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Paving the Way Forward for Evidence-Based Continuing Professional Development
This article examines the development and key recommendations embedded in a CE Educator's toolkit created to evolve CPD practice and foster a learning experience that promotes self-awareness, self-reflection, competency, and behavioral change. The toolkit highlighted three intervention formats:...
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Differences in Knowledge, Competence, and Confidence In Assessment Performance
This novel study of physician certification suggests that the accuracy of physician performance increases with higher stakes, even as self-reported confidence in their knowledge declines. It suggests that physicians may be more engaged in higher-stakes compared with lower-stakes assessments. With...
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Conceptual Advances in Continuing Professional Development in the Health Professions - A JCEHP Supplement
In this supplement, scholars were invited to examine continuing professional development (CPD) in the health professions critically and innovatively as a means of stimulating the field. The objective of the invitation was to promote intellectual space to question existing ideas that may be widely...
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Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice in an Online Faculty Development Course for Anesthesia Educators in East Africa
Faculty in low-resourced communities often have limited training on teaching and learning. An innovative, online, 13-week course using a flipped classroom model was developed for junior faculty anesthesiologists at teaching hospitals in East Africa and piloted in Ethiopia and Tanzania. This...
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A Critical Look at Simulation as a CPD Strategy
Although simulation is broadly believed to be an effective experiential educational strategy, physicians seldom select it for continuing professional development (CPD) for reasons that are poorly understood. The objective of this review was to explore existing evidence on simulation-based CPD and...
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Applying TEC-VARIETY to Motivate and Engage Learners for Online Learning Success
Learner motivation plays an essential role in overcoming barriers to achieve online learning success. Many health professions educators, however, are not familiar with evidence-based motivational principles and techniques that tap into learners' inner resources to promote online learning success....
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Advancing Educational Research Through an Innovative Accelerator Panel
Many educators are neither involved in nor equipped to conduct quality education research. This gap underscores the continuing education need to guide and train health professions educators to rigorously investigate, prepare, and report their educational research.The Education Research…
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Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Academic Physician Burnout and Depression
Burnout is pervasive among physicians and has widespread implications for individuals and institutions. This research study examines, for the first time, the effects of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on academic physician burnout and depression. Mixed methods findings suggest the TM...
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Efficacy of QI projects: A Realist Inquiry Into What Works, for Whom, Under What Circumstances
QI programs show variable impact on physician performance often neglecting to examine how implementation varies across contexts and mechanisms that affect uptake. This study used realist methods to explore relationships between outcomes, mechanisms (resources and reasoning), and context factors…
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Evidence for Knowledge Brokers (KBs) to Improve Healthcare Quality
Knowledge translation experts advocate for employing knowledge brokers (KBs) to promote the uptake of research evidence in healthcare settings, citing a 2.76 times faster uptake of clinical best practices. Yet, no previous research has identified potential barriers for KBs to promote the uptake…
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Coaching as a CPD Intervention
Certified coaches are trained to help individuals discover solutions to complex problems and facilitate decision-making about what is needed to build and maintain capacity and take action. Across many sectors, coaching has been shown to enhance performance and reduce burnout, but it has yet to be...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Official podcast series from The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions (JCEHP).
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Brian McGowan
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