Integrating essential components of quality improvement into a new paradigm for continuing education

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 207-214

  Van Hoof, Thomas J ^a   Meehan, Thomas P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuing education (CE); Continuing medical education (CME); Effectiveness; Health professions education; Leadership; Quality improvement (QI); Systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 80053162502     PISSN: 08941912     EISSN: 1554558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chp.20130     Document Type: Article

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