Today I'm in San Francisco having just
completed UCSF's 17th Annual Hospital Medicine course. First a shout-out to Bob Wachter, course
director, for putting together another great meeting. Offerings of
this quality are getting harder to find because for the last decade
they have been under attack by the CME thought police. The CME
thought police operate under several wrong headed assumptions a few
of which I'll mention here:
Industry sponsored CME is corrupt
and can't be good. This meeting is one of many counter examples.
CME should not take place in a nice
relaxing setting. Resort-based
CME is now considered a no-no by many institutions which have
discontinued their off campus activities.
CME is only worthwhile if it can be
tied in a measurable way to physician behavior. And
a close corollary..
Didactic CME should be abandoned
because it cannot be linked directly to measurable outcomes. Though
the benefits of traditional didactic CME are not as concrete as the
thought police would like my own career long learning experience
strongly convinces me of its value.
Many
attendees Tweeted the conference. I was not among them. For me
Tweets are a little too sound-bitey to do justice to the course
content. But unlike the CME thought police I respect differences in
learning needs among individuals and make no presumption about what
style of information sharing is best for others. So if Tweets work
for you search #UCSFMHP13 and find Tweets aplenty from the
conference. I may blog portions of the content once I have some down time if I'm still as pumped up and expansive as I am now.
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