Physician's Foundation Project Starting

A grant from the Physicians’ Foundation for Health Systems Excellence (PFHSE) has been awarded to Dr. John Wiecha to develop an innovative online approach for physicians’ continuing medical education for primary care physicians.

Continuing medical education, a requirement for all practicing physicians, can be a problem for those who have trouble leaving their practices for meetings and lectures, according to Wiecha. “The distance education approach tends to be more efficient,” he says. “So we developed some new ways to provide the continuing professional education using distance education methods, and it really engages [doctors] more in the material.” For more information about the grant, click here.

 

Reports and Links

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BostonBreathes: Improving pediatric asthma care with a home-based interactive website for patient education, monitoring, and clinical teamwork.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2006; 1144.
John M. Wiecha, MD, MPH; Adams WG, MD.
[Online Abstract]

Web-based vs. Face to Face Learning of Diabetes Management: The Results of a Comparative Trial of Educational Methods
Family Medicine 2006;38(9):647-52.
John M. Wiecha, MD, MPH; Peter F. Shaw, PhD; Vk Chetty, PhD.
[Online Full Text]

An Interactive Web-based Curriculum on Evidence-Based Medicine: Design and Effectiveness.
Family Medicine 2006;38(2):126-32.
Katherine Schilling, Ed.D; John M. Wiecha, MD, MPH; Souad Khalil, MPH
Department of Family Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
[Online Abstract] [Online Full Text]

The Interdisciplinary eHealth Team: Chronic Care for the Future
JMIR, 2004.
John M. Wiecha, MD, MPH; Timothy Pollard, MD
Department of Family Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
[Online Full Text]

Commentary
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, No. 6, Volume 10, 2003.
John M. Wiecha, MD, MPH
Department of Family Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
[Online Full Text]

Collaborative Online Learning: A New Distance Learning Method.
WHO Essential Drugs Monitor, No. 33, 2003.
John M. Wiecha, MD, MPH
[PDF Overview]

Collaborative e-Learning Using Streaming Video and Asynchronous Discussion Boardsto Teach the Cognitive Foundation of Medical Interviewing: A Case Study
JMIR (J Med Internet Res) 2003;5(2):e13
John M. Wiecha, MD, MPH; Robert Gramling, MD; Phyllis Joachim, PhD; Hannelore Vanderschmidt, EdM, PhD
[Online Abstract]

Collaborative Online Learning: A New Approach to Distance CME
John Wiecha and Nick Barrie Acad Med 2002 77: 928-929.
[Online Abstract] [PDF Overview]

HEAL: An Instructional Design Model Applied to an Online Clerkship in Family Medicine
John M. Wiecha, Hannelore Vanderschmidt, and Kathy Schilling Acad Med 2002 77: 925-926.
[Online Abstract] [PDF Overview]


March 17, 2006
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