It has been said that the world’s body of scientific knowledge approximately doubles every 73 days. As continual re-skilling has become a permanent feature of work, the focus of CME has transitioned to competency-based continuing...

Numbers make sense. They are easily plugged into data analysis software, resulting in percentages, frequencies, ratings and ranks. Quantitative research findings reveal trends and tendencies, and they sometimes help us predict and adapt.

Driving learner participation is a constant goal for every educator who creates medical education activities. For providers of online, on-demand education, success is often measured by the volume of clinicians participating instead of changes in...

It is crucial for educators to ensure they have dedicated plans for storing and protecting the data that gets collected before, during and after educational activities.

You can find examples of Rube Goldberg machines on YouTube, but similar systems exist naturally, too — as Katie Lucero, the vice president of audience, analytics, outcomes and insights at Medscape Education, recently discovered.

Anne Symons, CHCP, FACEHP, differentiates between competence and performance where competence is analogous to the golfer’s practice, while performance is analogous to the professional golfer’s round on the course.