Successful continuing professional education programs require that the learners be involved in design and implementation. Program planning and advisory committees are one means of ensuring the participation of adult learners and of meeting their needs. (SK)

Presents a conceptual model of discrepancy analysis evaluation for planning, evaluating, and assessing the impact of continuing medical education (CME). Describes the model in terms of its value as a means of diagnosing errors in the development and implementation of CME. (JOW)

Research must investigate three overlapping areas of continuing medical education. It must discover and document what, how, and why physicians learn and change; how better programs can be designed to fit into this process; and ways organizations that provide continuing education should differ in policies, procedures, and resources. (Author/MLW)