Schäfer Sebastian, Schäfer Christoph, Lösche Peter, Christ Hildegard, Lehmacher Walter, Griebenow Reinhard
Klinik II und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin (Klinikum Merheim), Universitätsklinikum Köln, Köln.
Med Klin (Munich). 2008 Apr 15;103(4):230-9. doi: 10.1007/s00063-008-1032-0.
In Germany, 45 min of continuing medical education (CME) are awarded 1 credit point. It was the aim of this study to assess the time amount needed to read a CME article in a wide variety of specialist journals.
All CME articles in 18 specialist journals presented in 2004 were analyzed, which had all used the same evaluation form provided by the Chamber of Physicians North Rhine (65,393 evaluation forms of 12,587 participants).
There was only a weak linear relationship between the time needed to read an article and the number of characters as a measure of length of the text. Duration of reading was more closely related to the amount of new data presented and was inversely related to duration of professional activity and clinical experience, but, on the other hand, age was positively related to very long reading times. Reading times also increased with the number of articles read, up to the fourth article. Day of the week and hour of the day revealed no influence on reading time.
The time amount needed to read a CME article is mainly determined by factors which are relevant in terms of clinical experience, while the length of the article is only of minor importance. Thus, the number of credit points awarded for reading CME articles should be based on direct assessment of reading time.
在德国，45分钟的继续医学教育（CME）可获得1个学分。本研究旨在评估阅读各种专业期刊上一篇CME文章所需的时间量。
对2004年18种专业期刊上的所有CME文章进行分析，这些文章均使用了北莱茵医师协会提供的相同评估表（12587名参与者的65393份评估表）。
阅读一篇文章所需时间与作为文本长度衡量指标的字符数之间仅存在微弱的线性关系。阅读时长与所呈现的新数据量更密切相关，与专业活动时长和临床经验呈负相关，但另一方面，年龄与极长的阅读时间呈正相关。阅读时间也随着阅读文章数量的增加而增加，直至第四篇文章。一周中的日期和一天中的时间对阅读时间没有影响。
阅读一篇CME文章所需的时间量主要由与临床经验相关的因素决定，而文章长度的重要性较小。因此，为阅读CME文章授予的学分数量应基于对阅读时间的直接评估。
