Annual Report
2001-2002
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Education
CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME)
OVERVIEW
CONTROVERSIES IN PRIMARY CARE AND EVIDENCE BASED PRIMARY CARE
There are generally two courses which are offered by the Department each year. The courses in the year 2001-2002 are reviewed below as are the courses for the 2002-2003 year.
Annual Advances in Family Practice and Primary Care
A. Report for 2001-2002
The 29th Annual Advances in Family Practice course was offered in September of 2001 and the 30th Annual Advances course was offered in September of 2002. The course continues to attract a large number of family physicians and other primary care physicians from the WAMI region and to be rated highly by attendees.
The tables below show the number of attendees, total revenues, and revenues to the Department.
Table 1. Annual Advances in Family Practice CME Course: Number of attendees, total revenues, and revenues to the Department of Family Medicine.
Twenty-five to thirty percent of participants historically have been repeat attendees. Over the last few years, 25-30% of attendees have been from allied health professions.
The following table shows the overall course evaluation since 2001.
Table 2. Annual Advances in Family Practice CME Course: Overall Course Evaluation
B. Plans for 2002-2003
The course will again be offered in the second week of September 2003. There are no plans for major changes in the course. As always, evaluations and suggestions from prior years will be used to guide the course content for the 2003 course.
CONTROVERSIES IN PRIMARY CARE AND EVIDENCE BASED PRIMARY CARE
A. Report for 2001-2002
In 2000-2001, the Department presented the Controversies in Primary Care Course on Friday and Saturday, January 26 and 27, 2001.. The focus on the course was on Evidence Based Medicine. The number of attendees was 85.
In planning for a course in 2001-2002, the name of the course was changed to Evidence Based Medicine in Primary Care. However, the course was not offered because of difficulties in finding a suitable time for the course.
B. Plans for 2002-2003
An Evidence Based Medicine in Primary Care course is planned for May 2003. The course committee consists of Nancy Stevens, Jennifer Hoock, and Bill Neighbor. It is planned as a one day course to occur on Friday, May 9, 2003. The course application materials are due to the CME office January 1. We envision this course to consistent of a morning of 20-minute presentations of answers to common clinical problems using the format of the Family Practice Inquiries Network (FPIN) project. In the afternoon, two workshops will be offered with the goal of training participants in developing clinical questions and searching the literature for evidence-based answers to those questions.
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