Two decades of dixon: The question(s) of evaluating continuing education in the health professions

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 207-213

  Davis, Dave ^a   Taylor Vaisey, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continuing education (CE); Continuing health professional education; Continuing medical education (CME); Evaluation; Program evaluation; Randomized controlled trials (RCTs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888929390     PISSN: 08941912     EISSN: 1554558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chp.4750170403     Document Type: Article

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