The conformity of continuous educational program's content of radiology department with needs of Continuous medical education learners, Markazi province, 2008

Necessary to making constant revisions in the continuous education programs and updating the physicians’ knowledge in accord to the needs of society seems to be essential. The present study was conducted to conformity of continuous educational programs’ content of radiology department with needs of Continuous medical education learners, Markazi province, 2008. In this cross- sectional study, in 2008, the opinions of 40 physicians falling under continuous medical education (CME) were collected through a questionnaire on a Likert scale in more than 30 instructional topics. Before educational program performance, priorities in education were assessed and after performance, rate of coverage and requirements conformity with content was determined. The most educational need was indication of chest x-Ray with mean of 4.21 and the less need was wrist MRI with mean of 2.42. After program performance, the greatest conformity of needs with educational content was indication of mammography (mean= 83.1) and wrist and shoulder MRI (mean=53.2) which was the least required. Though, there was a general correlation between need and content coverage in both areas of graph indication order and interpretation, but was not base on priority needs. There was significant relationship between physicians needs with educational needs (p<0.001). But about gender and work experience was not significant relationship. Lake of complete coverage of needs base on educational priority of CMS learners will seek greater attention and emphasis or scientific secretary and lecturer on needs in special educational objectives frame for accelerating of continuous education effectiveness.