Integrating continuing medical education and faculty development into a single course: Effects on participants’ behaviour

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Integrating medical and teaching content for physicians into a single course can be a promising alternative to conventional separate CME and FD. For physicians with teaching responsibilities, this approach also saves time. In our integrated course on psychopathology (CME) and one-on-one teaching skills (FD) for general practitioner (GP) trainers, participants reported changes in their medical and teaching practices. Participants preferred FD course content for planning changes, but three-month follow-up showed CME as well as FD content to be implemented in practice.

Table 1  Plans to change (statement) of 182 participants

Topics	Numbers of plans (% of total)
Teaching	302 (79%)
Leary's rose	109
Set-up and use of video's	89
Evasive behaviour of the GP trainer	84
Assessment and feedback	20
Medical	82 (21%)
Addiction care	27
Anxiety disorders	26
Personality disorders	16
Common psychopathology	13
Total	384

Table 2  Responded and implemented changes (follow-up) of 127 respondents

Topics	Responded	Implemented (% of responded)
Teaching	214	140 (65%)
Leary's rose	79	62(79%)
Set-up and use of video's	68	38 (56%)
Evasive behaviour of the GP trainer	52	32 (62%)
Assessment and feedback	15	8 (53%)
Medical	52	28 (54%)
Anxiety disorders	17	7 (41%)
Addiction care	16	9 (56%)
Personality disorders	11	9 (82%)
Common psychopathology	8	3 (38%)
Total	266	168 (63%)

Table 3  Other implemented changes (follow-up)

Topics	Numbers (% of total)
Teaching	38 (46%)
Leary's rose	28
Assessment and feedback	5
Set-up and use of video's	3
Evasive behaviour of the GP trainer	2
Medical	45 (54%)
Personality disorders	26
Common psychopathology	14
Anxiety disorders	3
Addiction care	2
Total	83