Away?from?home CME: Age and sex differences among physicians in the Dakotas

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Continuing Medical Education (CME) is required for reregistration of license in many states, continued membership in several specialty societies, and maintenance of practice privileges in most hospitals. However, although CME contributes to medical practice, it also makes demands on physicians’ personal lives. To explore these demands, we investigated enrollment at 2‐day CME conferences by physicians of both sexes and varying ages. Results indicated young male physicians were more likely to attend than older male physicians, and older female physicians were more likely to attend than younger female physicians. This pattern is explained by psychosocial development theory reporting that young women assign more importance to relationships and young men assign more importance to achievement, with both groups changing as they mature: Women become more interested in achievement, and men become more interested in relationships. These concerns are also reflected in physicians’ valuation of issues used in deciding to attend 2‐ to 4‐day CME sessions.

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