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Lifelong learning: skills and online resources.
Acad Psychiatry
March 2007
University of California, Davis, Sacramento, USA.
Objective: Advances in information technology enable the practicing psychiatrist's quest to keep up-to-date with new discoveries in psychiatry, as well as to meet recertification requirements. However, physicians' computer skills do not always keep up with technology, nor do they take advantage of online search and continuing education services. This article describes the rationale for using electronic databases and training, as well as basic computer skills, computer equipment, and important online resources for psychiatrists to meet their continuing education and recertification needs quickly, easily, and conveniently.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLessons learned-UME-21 project.
Fam Med
January 2004
American Associat ion of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, Chevy Chase, Md. 20815, USA.
The Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century (UME-21) project evolved from two prior projects that were aimed at studying the interface between managed care and undergraduate medical education. The project provided funding for 18 US medical schools to demonstrate how they would produce graduates who eventually could practice in a rapidly changing health care environment. Medical schools were required to provide educational opportunities in nine content areas or outline why such educational opportunities could not be provided in their individual projects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluation of the UME-21 initiative at 18 medical schools between 1999 and 2001.
Fam Med
January 2004
Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care, Jefferson Medical College, PA 19107, USA.
Background: This study evaluated the processes of curricular change and the initial outcomes of the Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century (UME-21) project at 18 schools.
Methods: Site visits were conducted at eight partner schools in 1999 and 2001. Written proposals, progress reports, and final reports of 18 schools were reviewed.
Partnerships between health care organizations and medical schools in a rapidly changing environment: a view from the delivery system.
Fam Med
January 2004
Office of Community-based Education, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0900, USA.
Background And Objectives: The Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century (UME-21) project encouraged the formation or enhancement of partnerships between medical schools and health care organizations distinct from the traditional teaching hospitals. The purpose was to prepare medical students in nine content areas that were components of the UME-21 project. Despite their importance today to medical schools, such partnerships with health care organizations are a challenge to develop and maintain in the midst of a rapidly changing health care environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPromoting the development of doctoring competencies in clinical settings.
Fam Med
January 2004
Drexel University College of Medicine, PA 19102-1192, USA.
Background And Objectives: This UME-21 project was developed to promote a variety of clinical competencies during a 12-week medicine clerkship for third-year students.
Methods: The clerkship is divided into three 4-week rotations--two inpatient rotations and one outpatient rotation. During each rotation, students select a competency, review the module about that competency on the clerkship Web site, and perform a literature search.
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