Argumentative Essay On Continuing Medical Education

Introduction: Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs are ongoing educational activities, events (seminars, conferences, online lectures etc.) That aim to increase quality standards and maintain competency in the health care field. CME’s are an integral part of professional licensing for all healthcare professions (HCPS) around the world1. CME mainly focuses on updating the knowledge of HCPS and enable them to adapt to changes and to take part in changes 2. The American Medical Association (AMA) described continuing medical education as “educational activities that serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession.4. Moreover, AMA termed the content of CME as “that body of knowledge and skills generally recognized and accepted by the profession as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision of health care to the public4. The requirement for continuing medical education in health care originated in the early 1900s when several investigators in the United States determined that the training physicians and healthcare …show more content…
During the month of November 2015, we distributed Surveys using open and close ended questions to randomly sampled sonographers working in King Saud Medical City (KSMC) in Riyadh. 25 sonographers completed the survey. The survey was anonymous to ensure confidentiality at all times. The surveys were analyzed using coding and thematic analysis. The questionnaire contained demographic questions about the participants and in depth questions about quality, content, motives and accompanying barriers to CME courses. The questionnaires included both female and male sonographers with age ranging between 20-50 years. We collected the data and analyzed it using Excel