COMPUTERIZED CANCER CME FOR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS

描述：健康人2000目标呼吁增加医生发起的降低风险和健康促进咨询以及提供筛查服务，以减少美国肺癌、乳腺癌、前列腺癌、宫颈癌和结直肠癌的死亡人数。医生肿瘤学教育计划(POEP)的使命是为德克萨斯州的医生和实习医生提供降低癌症发病率和死亡率所需的知识和技能。面向医生的POEP培训课程自1987年以来一直在开发和不断完善，主要由一系列印刷模块和35 mm幻灯片组成，涉及主要肿瘤部位的全面癌症预防和早期发现。1998年，与一家小型卫生保健学习公司合作，制作了一个以乳腺癌模块为基础的试点光盘课程。这项申请建议利用POEP指导委员会及其小企业合作伙伴医疗保健学习公司的专业知识1)测试和完善现有印刷的继续医学教育课程，以便转移到全面、互动的CD-ROM格式；2)进行技术转让，为初级保健医生创建一个完全自动化的癌症继续教育系统；3)扩大计算机化继续癌症教育系统的传播网络；以及4)衡量该系统的利用率和对初级保健医生向患者提供定期、有效的癌症预防、早期发现和控制服务的知识和实践的临床影响。这一独特的伙伴关系将建立在公认的公共、私人和志愿者合作的13年记录的基础上，以加强初级保健医生在减轻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.