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Table 5 Suggested Actions to Enhance CME Activities, and Supporting Quotes

From: Barriers to identifying and obtaining CME: a national survey of physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants

Suggested actiona

Quotes

Optimize location

• Good locations and maybe include families in some activities.

• Have it in multiple cities.

• Hold them around the country in various locations.

Reduce cost

• Create inexpensive offerings in the Pacific NW.

• Keep expenses under control.

• Lower the cost for meeting & for hotel costs.

Publicize effectively

• Better knowledge of when courses are.

• Better notification, I am largely unaware of courses offered but maybe I am not on the proper mail/email list.

• Promoting better awareness of these courses and the benefits associated.

• I just need to know that they are happening.

• Publicize them more so more providers will be aware.

• Advertising more on topics presented and when.

• Send more brochures and advertise more in professional magazines.

Offer more

• Greater availability in a variety of locations.

• Higher volume of courses offered.

• Have at destination locations and content that is applicable to daily practice problems along with some new insights, etc.

• More access via email and internet.

Allow flexibility

• Make at convenient times, after office hours.

• Make more Category 1 and allow flexible time for participation.

• More available times and dates.

• Short courses, no post testing.

• Keep flexible times.

• Offer more weekend courses, too busy during the week.

Ease of use and accessibility

• Their system can be difficult to access. It needs to be more user-friendly.

• Ease of use (time, availability, at user’s pace).

Make it clinically relevant

• A lot of times the talks are a lot about graphs and fluff instead of point blank how it can affect your clinical practice on a daily basis.

• Good engaging speakers with clinical pearls.

Encourage application

• More interactive.

• More visual aids.

  1. a Suggestions derived from inductive analysis of 773 free-text comments