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(Pediatrics in Review. 2008;29:415-416. doi:10.1542/10.1542/pir.29-12-415)
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Meeting the Need for Continuing Education

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In January 2008, the Josiah Macy, Jr, Foundation issued a report on the current status of continuing education systems for health professionals. The report criticized the medical profession's traditional emphasis on continuing medical education (CME) hours earned in lecture format and recommended that continuing education programs be designed to help physicians examine and improve their own practices and answer the questions that arise during patient care. 1 When I read the report, I realized that for almost 30 years, PREP® The Curriculum has provided just such an educational program! We certainly were ahead of our time, and having more than 27,000 subscribers worldwide suggests that many health-care professionals agree that this approach to CME meets their educational needs.

PREP is a learning system based on the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) content specifications, which are the focus of the Board's Program for Initial Certification and Maintenance of CertificationTM (MOC)—Pediatrics. PREP Self-Assessment (SA) questions as well as Pediatrics in Review (PIR) articles are mapped to the ABP's content specifications, and if you subscribe to both PREP SA and PIR continuously over a 5-year period, you will have had the opportunity to review . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Mary E Rimsza, MD, FAAP, Editor, PREP Self Assessment
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