Positive Approaches to Continuing Medical Education in Community Hospitals
- 21 December 1967
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 277 (25) , 1341-1344
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196712212772504
Abstract
THE Postgraduate Medical Institute, established in 1953 under the sponsorship of the Massachusetts Medical Society, was designed to encourage and, at least in part, to provide for the continuing education of physicians.1 The Institute believes that community hospitals will be the primary focus of continuing education activity for physicians in the future. It is expected that practitioners will continue to educate themselves by reading and by attendance at society meetings and formal courses. Such individual efforts, however, will truly be recognized and rewarded in the hospital setting and particularly in hospitals with meaningful education programs of their own.The present . . .Keywords
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