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Infectious Diseases Physicians' Preferences for Continuing Medical Education on Antimicrobial Resistance and Other General Topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Jennifer Tuboku-Metzger Blakely
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Ronda L. Sinkowitz-Cochran*
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
William R. Jarvis
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
*
National Center for Infectious Diseases, 1600 Clifton Road, Mailstop E-69, Atlanta, Georgia30333, (rls7@cdc.gov)

Abstract

A 19-item survey instrument was designed and mailed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America to its membership to determine the media preferred by infectious diseases physicians for continuing medical education on general topics and on antimicrobial resistance. The objective of the survey was to offer the developers of educational programs knowledge on which to base more-effective ways to deliver educational materials to physicians in this specialty.

Type
Concise Communications
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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