Instead, “I think it's a good idea to have a private organization, maybe like the American Medical Association,” said Dr. Cleeman. “Their goal would be to assist in developing goals for continuing education.”
For example, he added, the organization could say, “'Here are some metrics for how you evaluate continuing education.'” He continued, “If they could come up with metrics, either through surveys or some other tested metric, that would be great. Then you can always be improving your continuing education.”
The Institute of Medicine report, “Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions,” is available online at