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“We don’t need no education” – a qualitative study of barriers to continuous medical education among Danish general practitioners

BACKGROUND: Continuous medical education is essential for the individual patient care, the society, and the wellbeing of the general practitioner. There has been research into the reasons for participation in continuous medical education, but little is known about the barriers to participation. To t...

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Autores principales: Ibsen, Helle, Lillevang, Gunver, Søndergaard, Jens, Kjaer, Niels Kristian
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10278246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37337212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04432-9
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author Ibsen, Helle
Lillevang, Gunver
Søndergaard, Jens
Kjaer, Niels Kristian
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description BACKGROUND: Continuous medical education is essential for the individual patient care, the society, and the wellbeing of the general practitioner. There has been research into the reasons for participation in continuous medical education, but little is known about the barriers to participation. To tailor continuous medical education targeting general practitioners who are currently deselecting education, systematic knowledge of the barriers is needed. Continuous medical education can in addition to professional growth stimulate job satisfaction, diminish burnout, and reinforce feelings of competence. Continuous medical education may have positive implications for patients and for healthcare expenditures. Despite renumeration and a comprehensive continuous education model some Danish general practitioners do not participate in continuous medical education. METHODS: From a total of 3440 Danish general practitioners 243 did not apply for reimbursement for accredited continuous medical education in a two-year period. Ten general practitioners were selected for an interview regarding maximum variation in practice form, number of listed patients, seniority as a general practitioner, geography, gender, and age. All ten selected general practitioners accepted to be interviewed. The interviews were analysed using Systematic Text Condensation. RESULTS: Each of the ten interviewed general practitioners mentioned several barriers for participating in continuous education. The barriers fell into three main categories: barriers related to the individual general practitioner; barriers related to the clinic; barriers related to the accredited continuous medical education offered. CONCLUSIONS: Approximately 7% of the Danish general practitioners did not participate in accredited remunerated continuous medical education. A knowledge of the barriers for participating in accredited continuous medical education can be used to better target continuous medical education to the general practitioners. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04432-9.
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spelling pubmed-102782462023-06-20 “We don’t need no education” – a qualitative study of barriers to continuous medical education among Danish general practitioners Ibsen, Helle Lillevang, Gunver Søndergaard, Jens Kjaer, Niels Kristian BMC Med Educ Research BACKGROUND: Continuous medical education is essential for the individual patient care, the society, and the wellbeing of the general practitioner. There has been research into the reasons for participation in continuous medical education, but little is known about the barriers to participation. To tailor continuous medical education targeting general practitioners who are currently deselecting education, systematic knowledge of the barriers is needed. Continuous medical education can in addition to professional growth stimulate job satisfaction, diminish burnout, and reinforce feelings of competence. Continuous medical education may have positive implications for patients and for healthcare expenditures. Despite renumeration and a comprehensive continuous education model some Danish general practitioners do not participate in continuous medical education. METHODS: From a total of 3440 Danish general practitioners 243 did not apply for reimbursement for accredited continuous medical education in a two-year period. Ten general practitioners were selected for an interview regarding maximum variation in practice form, number of listed patients, seniority as a general practitioner, geography, gender, and age. All ten selected general practitioners accepted to be interviewed. The interviews were analysed using Systematic Text Condensation. RESULTS: Each of the ten interviewed general practitioners mentioned several barriers for participating in continuous education. The barriers fell into three main categories: barriers related to the individual general practitioner; barriers related to the clinic; barriers related to the accredited continuous medical education offered. CONCLUSIONS: Approximately 7% of the Danish general practitioners did not participate in accredited remunerated continuous medical education. A knowledge of the barriers for participating in accredited continuous medical education can be used to better target continuous medical education to the general practitioners. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04432-9. BioMed Central 2023-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10278246/ /pubmed/37337212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04432-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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“We don’t need no education” – a qualitative study of barriers to continuous medical education among Danish general practitioners
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10278246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37337212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04432-9
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