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Best Practice Survey Results
8. What is the most efficient way to keep up to date?
8. In your opinion what is the most efficient way of keeping your medical knowledge up to date? (tick all that apply)
: Percentage responses for each question.
| |
GP
|
Nurse |
Pharmacist |
Total Combined |
Reading articles
|
85.2% |
96.1% |
95.3% |
89.1% |
CME meetings
|
80.8% |
49.3% |
56.8% |
69.7% |
Talking to colleagues
|
64.1% |
79.7% |
62% |
68.1% |
Peer support groups
|
65.6% |
61.3% |
36.2% |
61.2% |
| Participation in quizzes etc |
51.8% |
30% |
34.7% |
43.9% |
| Other |
10.8% |
13.8% |
5.6% |
10.8% |
Reading articles continues to be an important source of medical knowledge, especially for GPs (85%) and Practice Nurses (96%). CME meetings are also rated highly by GPs.
For respondents who ticked “Other” popular suggestions were: “all of the above”, conferences, advice from specialists especially from referral letters, postgraduate study, the internet, email updates, case based learning, quizzes and specific questions arising from individual patient care.
