According to an article published in BioMedCentral in May 2007, participation in CME activities has been shown to be associated with positive job satisfaction and negatively with job stress.
As advances in information technology, coping with hugh amount of medical knowledge is a major challenge to most doctors, a follow up questionnaire study was carried out in 2004 involving 1005 Norwegian doctors to investigate their CME activities and their perceived ability of keeping themselves updated and their job satisfaction.
They found that Norwegian doctors spent less time on attending courses but more on medical reading, however both were regarded the most important sources of information. Those with 5 or more CME course days were significantly more likely to be able to obtain sufficient information for keeping updated in their daily work than those who had not attended courses. There was a strong positive effect of the number of hours spent per week on medical reading. They also found that high job satisfaction was strongly associated with doctors' perceived ability to obtain sufficient information to keep professionally updated.
The authors concluded that this "gives good reasons for recommending a high level of CME activities among doctors."
Source:"Doctors’ learning habits: CME activities among Norwegian physicians over the last decade" BMC Medical Education 2007, 7:10 ( free full text)
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