On CME Programs

How Physicians Keep Up

In most states, physicians are mandated to attend C.M.E. sessions for continued licensing.  Sadly, many of these programs are just marketing opportunities for PhRMA and device makers.

In a 1905 article in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Drs. RC Cabot and EA Locke wrote:

“Learning medicine is not fundamentally different from learning anything else. If one had 100 hours in which to learn to ride a horse or to speak in public, one might profitably spend perhaps an hour (in divided doses) in being told how to do it, four hours in watching a teacher do it, and the remaining 95 hours in practice, at first with close supervision, later under general oversight.”

‘nuff said,

Reference:

Cabot RC, Locke EA. The organization of a department of clinical medicine. Boston Med Surg J. 1905;153:461-5