Building a learning organization: communities of practice, self-directed learning, and continuing medical education

Continuing medical education: Learning and change: implications for continuing medical education

“…Hospitals, clinics, group practices, accreditation bodies, social service agencies, and governments reflect societal needs and demands in different ways. By gathering and processing information and feedback, learning organisations create some of the standards that govern practice and modify others to fit the local problems and needs 9. They also provide opportunities for doctors to learn how to adapt to these standards successfully.…”

Clinical Uncertainty in Primary Care

“…The resulting "Curriculum Template" provided a blueprint for a CME curriculum that integrated four core content areas -relationship-centered care, evidence-based practice, team functioning, and refl ective practice -and postulated that collegial learning should happen as part of daily practice, "not something occurring outside the routine activities of the physician" (Confessore 1997 ). The Template outlined a small group learning approach with clinicians meeting in "colleague groups" during set-aside time and using the clinicians' own cases as the substrate for learning.…”

Step-by-step: A model for practice-based learning

“…17 Learning organization models have been proposed for medical practice, 18,19 integrating continuous improvement principles, managing ongoing change and continuing medical education~CME!, 20,21 with workplace learning informing practice and education. 18 Within organizations, collective learning introduces many challenges, 22 and the group process and team learning in medical education remain poorly understood.…”