State medical councils have made it essential to earn 30 CME credits in order to rnew the registration. what is the purpose? Is it to make the doctors keep in touch with the new advances? Refresh one's knowledge? In today's world of mass communication & IT, is it necessary to physically attend the CMEs? With due respect, one can't help feeling that the CME programs today are more of socialisation as there is no way to assess how much a participant has assimilated!
On the contrary in some other countries, online CMEs are available that have assessment systems. Even if some one selects wrong answer, the next screen will give the right answer with explaination. Thus the participant updates skills. http://clevelandclinicmeded.com/online/casebased/DecisionMaking/irritable-bowel-syndrome http://www.medscape.com/allergy-immunology The above links are examples of such interactive CMEs. I…
