As MCI plans and proposes to make CMEs a mandatory requiremenmt rather than optional one, I would like to highlight on a more practical issue. There in no doubt that medical practitioners must keep current with the latest research and being uptodate requires continuously refreshing your knowledge. However, given the exponentially increasing volume and velocity of medical literature, it is almost an impossible task.
Even if a doctor is able to abstract and absorb the literature that is relevant to him, there are two big surprises for him The reversal of established medical practice is common and occurs across all classes of medical practice. In one of the study published in Elsevier on August 2013 - " A Decade of Reversal: An Analysis of 146 Contradicted Medical Practices - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23871230/ ", a study was conducted on 363 papers published in New England…
