Priorities of continuing training for global practitioners in Kashan University of Medical Sciences 2013.

Continuing the medical education has already been a concern, as a universal principle and necessity in the universe, so that the World Health Organization (WHO) has specified it as an urgent necessity. This research objective was the assay of priorities of continuing training for global practitioners at Kashan University of Medical Sciences. In this cross-sectional study, 212 out of 600 general practitioners take parting in the keeping on the medical education programmes held by KUMS were covered. After being interviewed about their needs and interest in the programmers, a survey including demographic information such as the education needed, way of teaching, etc., was given to them. The data were then analyzed by SPSS v 11.5. 137 (64.6%) cases were males and 75 (48.3%) were women. Also, 38 (17.9%) individuals were working in emergency wards. Findings indicated that the first priority of the programs was the internal diseases emergency, and then the pediatric common diseases. The third priority was the infectious common diseases. The needs of the CME and the use of the appropriate methods to match the content of the training needed the assessment of the GP training program design painting by the learners, thus enhancing quality and the efficiency of CME applications.