Impact on clinical behavior of face-to-face continuing medical education blended with online spaced education: A randomized controlled trial

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-108

  Shaw, Timothy ^a   Long, Andrea ^b   Chopra, Sanjiv ^b   Kerfoot, B Price ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuing; Education; Medical; Technology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; E-MAIL; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REINFORCEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEXAS;

EID: 79958700013     PISSN: 08941912     EISSN: 1554558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chp.20113     Document Type: Article

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