COMPUTERIZED CANCER CME FOR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS

描述：《2000年健康人》的目标要求增加由医生发起的降低风险和促进健康的咨询，并提供筛查服务，以减少美国肺癌、乳腺癌、前列腺癌、宫颈癌和结肠直肠癌的死亡人数。肿瘤学医生教育计划（POEP）的使命是向德克萨斯州的医生和正在接受培训的医生提供减少癌症发病率和死亡率所需的知识和技能。自1987年以来，POEP医生培训课程一直在开发和不断完善，主要由一系列印刷模块和35毫米幻灯片组成，涉及主要肿瘤部位的综合癌症预防和早期检测。1998年，与一家小型保健学习公司合作制作了以乳腺癌模块为基础的试验性光盘课程。该应用程序建议使用POEP指导委员会及其小型商业伙伴m3医疗保健学习公司的专业知识，1)测试和改进现有的印刷继续医学教育课程，以便将其转换为全面的交互式CD-ROM格式；2)进行技术转移，为初级保健医生创建一个全自动的癌症继续教育系统；3)扩大计算机化癌症继续教育系统的传播网络；4)衡量该系统对初级保健医生在向患者提供定期、有效的癌症预防、早期发现和控制服务方面的知识和实践的使用情况和临床影响。这一独特的伙伴关系将以13年来公认的公共、私营和志愿合作的记录为基础，加强初级保健医生在减少和消除癌症负担方面的作用。

DESCRIPTION: Healthy People 2000 objectives call for increases in physician-initiated risk reduction and health promotion counseling and delivery of screening services to reduce the number of deaths from lung, breast, prostate, cervix and colorectal cancers in the U.S. The mission of the Physician Oncology Education Program (POEP) is to provide Texas Physicians and Physicians-in-training with the knowledge and skills necessary to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality. The POEP training curriculum for physicians, which has been developed and continuously refined since 1987, is composed primarily of a series of printed modules and 35 mm slides addressing comprehensive cancer prevention and early detection in major tumor sites. A pilot CD-ROM course based on the breast cancer module was produced in 1998 with a small health care learning company. This application proposes to use the expertise of the POEP Steering Committee and its small business partner, m3 The Healthcare Learning Company to 1) test and refine the existing print continuing medical education curriculum for transference into a comprehensive, interactive CD-ROM format; 2) perform technology transfer to create a fully automated continuing cancer education system for primary care physicians; 3) expand networks for dissemination of computerized continuing cancer education system; and 4) measure utilization and clinical impact of the system on the knowledge and practice of primary care physicians in the delivery of regular, effective cancer prevention, early detection, and control services to their patients. This unique partnership will build on a 13-year track record of recognized public, private, and volunteer collaboration to enhance the role of the primary care physician in reducing and eliminating the cancer burden.