Taking the pulse: The Fourth Annual Physician Preferences IN CME Survey

The fourth annual survey of physician preferences in continuing medical education (CME) has several informational firsts. For the first time, we asked physicians to indicate all the ways in which they obtained CME credit. We also broke out data on CME participants who received most of their CME credit by attending meetings-and found significant variation in the factors that influence their decision to attend out-of-town meetings, compared to the total sample. We also asked how much advance