THE QUESTION often raised is how much does it cost practicing physicians to attend various continuing medical education endeavors? Family practitioners participating in a twoweek review course at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine provided information regarding their years in practice, size of community, and type of practice in order to determine the direct and indirect costs of one kind of continuing medical education. Results indicate that this type of review course incurs considerable cost to the family physician, but may present a small investment in terms of improved patient care. Twenty-four states have passed legislation requiring participation in continuing medical education as a condition for reregistration of the license to practice medicine, and more states are drafting such legislation.¹Among the questions raised herein are those relating to cost of continuing medical education, weighted against the potential value of the educational programs to practitioners and their patients.
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Margaret E. Faithe (1979) studied this question.