A physician's CME, or continuing medical education, never stops. To keep up-to-date with advances, CME for physicians usually mean costly and time-consuming trips to conferences for in-person sessions.
But in the past few years there has been a rise in medical continuing education online. A new study predicts by 2016, half of doctors will be using distance medical education to earn online CME credits.
That's up from about 7 to 9 percent just two years ago, in 2008.
A new study of United States distance learning finds that more students than ever are taking college and university courses on line —a 17 percent jump from 2007 to 2008.
Is distance higher education as effective as traditional learning at the college level?
The United States Department of Education conducted an online learning study undertaken from 1996 to 2008 that addressed this topic and concluded the following:
1) Distance higher education is more effective and than traditional face-to-face learning; {{ad89}}
2) Distance higher education combined with some traditional learning (blended or hybrid learning) is the most effective;
3) Face-to-face learning alone is the least effective method among the three types studied.
The University of Phoenix lawsuit filied six years ago by two ex-admissions staffers has been settled for $78.5 million—in what lawyers say is one of the largest pay for performance compensation settlements ever reached.
The University of Phoenix university's parent company, The Apollo Group, agreed to pay $67.5 million to the federal government for the UOP fraud and $11 million in attorney's fees and costs for the plaintiffs. In doing so, The Apollo Group did not admit any wrongdoing for the bonus compensation, and executives for the University of Phoenix university said they did not expect any prosecution from the Department of Education in addition to the University of Phoenix lawsuit charges.
How important is college affordability when selecting an online school?
According to our most recent web poll, more than 90 percent of respondents say college affordability is “extremely” or “very” important in selecting the best online college. Less than 3 percent reported that money “doesn’t matter.”
A physician's CME, or continuing medical education, never stops. To keep up-to-date with advances, CME for physicians usually mean costly and time-consuming trips to conferences for in-person sessions.
