Table 5.
Participants’ recent and future utilisation of educational methods.
| Type of educational methods | When participants were GP trainees (N = 112) |
At least 6 months after participants completed GP training (N = 63) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency of each form of Type 2 diabetes education participants completed during the past 3 years (%) | Frequency of each form of Type 2 diabetes education participants would utilise in the future (%) | Frequency of each form GPs completed during the past 6 months (%) | Frequency of each form GPs would utilise in the future (%) | Frequency of each form GPs would utilise if CME were mandatory (%) | |
| Interactive workshop/practice sessions | 40 (35.7) | 77 (68.8) | 24 (38.1) | 36 (57.1) | 19 (30.2) |
| Interactive lecture | 40 (35.7) | 62 (55.4) | 24 (38.1) | 38 (60.3) | 27 (42.9) |
| Computer-based internet | 64 (57.1) | 57 (50.9) | 37 (58.7) | 31 (49.2) | 48 (76.2) |
| Textbook | 68 (60.7) | 51 (45.5) | 30 (47.6) | 32 (50.8) | 10 (15.9) |
| Print materials | 41 (36.6) | 40 (35.7) | 24 (38.1) | 26 (41.3) | 10 (15.9) |
| In-person conference | 38 (33.9) | 22 (19.6) | 21 (33.3) | 24 (38.1) | 14 (22.2) |
| Computer-based CD/DVD | 1 (0.9) | 16 (14.3) | 6 (9.5) | 12 (19.0) | 3 (4.8) |
| Interactive video conference | 1 (0.9) | 11 (9.8) | 35 (55.6) | 25 (39.7) | 22 (34.9) |
| None | 2 (1.8) | – | 1 (1.6) | – | – |