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Optimizing Outcomes in Psychopharmacology Continuing Medical Education (CME): Measuring Learning and Attitudes That May Predict Knowledge Translation into Clinical Practice

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Because continuing medical education (CME) activities in psychopharmacology have traditionally documented only that participants have been exposed to a great deal of new information, it has been difficult to gauge to what extent CME leads to the acquisition of new knowledge or to the translation of this knowledge into clinical practice. The goal of modern CME is not only to facilitate learning and knowledge translation, but to evaluate whether these outcomes have occurred. Although further research will be required to develop practical, affordable, and proven methods that are capable of measuring the extent to which a CME activity facilitates sustained knowledge translation into clinical practice, it is already possible to incorporate participant-focused educational designs, measurements of learning with pre-and posttesting, and case-based exercises to assess whether the translation of knowledge into proxies of clinical practice is now beginning to occur.

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