What is Continuing Medical Education?
Continuing Medical Education (CME) is a continuous process of acquiring new knowledge and skills throughout one’s professional life. Because undergraduate and postgraduate education are insufficient to ensure physicians’ lifelong competence, CME is essential to maintain the competencies of physicians, to remedy gaps in skills, and to enable professionals to respond to the challenges of rapidly growing knowledge and technologies, changing health needs, and the social, political, and economic factors of the practice of medicine. Continuing Medical Education depends heavily upon learner motivation and self-directed learning skills. In some jurisdictions (including DHCC) a physician is required to obtain a given number of hours of CME in order to maintain a license to practice.
