SACME Virtual Journal Club

Celebration of the Decades - 1980s

How Physicians Learn and Change

Monday, July 21, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

Free for SACME Members / $30 Non-Members

Session Overview

Join us for this important session as we continue remembering seminal publications in continuing medical education (CME) and continuing professional development (CPD) over the past 50 years. We will have a rare opportunity to revisit important literature and hold conversations with scholars who have made major contributions to our field.

In this session, we will focus on a groundbreaking study for our field, as well as for SACME, conducted and published in the 1980s, often simply referred to as “The Change Study.” We are fortunate to host Dr. Robert Fox, one of the primary authors of the study and the book publication, who will describe how and why the society decided to support and participate in a very large study of change and learning, and lead us in the discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of the change study. We will review and appreciate the role that theory had in the study of the continuing professional development of physicians and in the generation of evidence-based educational practice.

During this facilitated and interactive session, we will have an opportunity to directly engage Dr. Fox and each other around questions related to the study of changing and learning in the lives of physicians, its origins, and its implications. The overall goal is to place this large and complex Society project into the fabric of the times, a decade of transformation for continuing professional development.

A copy of several critical chapters of the book and the reference papers will be provided to all registrants.

As always, we welcome your thoughts and perspectives and hope to see you engaged in our VJC.

Speaker

Robert Fox, Ed.D.
Professor Emeritus
University of Oklahoma

Host and Facilitator

Mila Kostic, CHCP, FACEHP