Positive Approaches to Continuing Medical Education in Community Hospitals

Abstract

THE Postgraduate Medical Institute, established in 1953 under the sponsorship of the Massachusetts Medical Society, was designed to encourage and, at least in part, to provide for the continuing education of physicians.¹ The Institute believes that community hospitals will be the primary focus of continuing education activity for physicians in the future. It is expected that practitioners will continue to educate themselves by reading and by attendance at society meetings and formal courses. Such individual efforts, however, will truly be recognized and rewarded in the hospital setting and particularly in hospitals with meaningful education programs of their own.The present . . .