Key Characteristics of Continuing Education
Mar 15, 2009
Food For Thought
Key
Characteristics of Continuing Education
Continuing education (CE) of healthcare professionals is essential to health of all Americans. With accelerating advances in health information and technology, physicians, nurses, and other health professionals must maintain and improve their knowledge and skills throughout their careers in order to provide safe, effective, and high quality healthcare for their patients. Therefore, CE fulfills a critically important public purpose.
What Healthcare Professionals Look For in CE In a recent survey, a large group of healthcare professionals identified a set of principles they believe should underlie and guide continuing healthcare education. These characteristics include, but are not limited to, the following:
CE ultimately helps to improve the quality of patient care by promoting improved clinical knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Given the accelerating pace of change in clinical information and technology, CE has never been more important!
“We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.” —Ben Sweetland
