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Welcome to my Master's Thesis, The Current Status of Online Continuing Medical Education. The thesis was published in June 2000. Although only six years have passed since my initial survey and report, there has been a tremendous growth in online CME. At the time of the survey reported in my thesis (February 2000), I found 96 sites offering over 3000 credit-hours of CME. In December 2006, when I last looked at every site on my list at www.cmelist.com/list.htm, there were about 300 sites offering about 16,000 courses totaling about 26,000 credit-hours. You can see the December 2006 figures in the slide show prepared in December 2006. The single most important result is that online CME is now accounting for about 18% of all CME credits earned by US physicians. Most of the principles described in the June 2000 thesis still apply. If you have a serious interest in Online CME, you will want to read at least selected parts of the thesis. Then, to see the most current figures and trends, come back and look at the December 2006 slide show. To see details of the sites as they appeared on my visits in March 2006 through December 2006, please visit the Annotated List of Online CME. To view the June 2000 thesis, please continue. Please be aware that some links, which were correct in June 2000, may no longer work. PC users will find it easy to navigate to areas of interest within the thesis by clicking on the headings shown in the left frame. MAC users will be happier with the No-Frames version. If you get strange results when you click in the left frame, click here for the no-frames version. Please look at the Addendum for an important addition and correction. This report is meant to be read online so that you may conveniently follow the links. But if you prefer to read on paper, you may either: 1) download and print the thesis in pdf format (Adobe Acrobat required), or 2) download and
print the Word version in two parts
(front_matter.doc, 36 KB and manuscript.doc,
653 KB, or 4) Another alternative is to print the frame(s) of interest to you, and follow along with the links onscreen. Much of the "meat" of this work is in the tables and appendices and in the lists and searchable databases, so be sure to follow those links. I give permission to anyone involved in online CME to reproduce small portions of the thesis, tables, CME list and PowerPoint slides. Please acknowledge by writing "Reproduced with permission of Bernard M. Sklar, MD, MS." Please email me with your comments or corrections.
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