PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - W. O. Spitzer
AU  - G. L. Dickie
AU  - M. J. Bass
AU  - R. Roberts
AU  - F. Demanuele
AU  - H. Stockwell
AU  - J. Feightner
AU  - C. Moore
AU  - J. I. Williams
AU  - S. Skene
TI  - The relevance to family physicians of core content review: evaluation of a program of continuing education
DP  - 1980 Feb 23
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 429--432
VI  - 122
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/122/4/429.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/122/4/429.full
SO  - CMAJ1980 Feb 23; 122
AB  - The Core Content Review of Family Medicine was assessed for its relevance to family practice. Three sets of questionnaires were completed and assessed by 48 experienced, certificated family physicians, of whom half were faculty members from university departments of family medicine and half were in private practice. The answers to 57% of the questions were correct. In the opinion of the panelists the answers to 62% of the questions permitted discrimination between physicians providing care of good quality and those providing care that was less than adequate. The panelists rated 78% of the questions as being educationally useful. Two thirds of the questions were deemed relevant according to a composite criterion. Examples are given of the questions considered most relevant and of those considered least relevant.