Doctors' continuing education goes online - Drew Joseph, San Francisco Chronicle

Physicians who need to fulfill their continuing medical education requirements can now head to their computers to take a new online course from UCSF. Last summer, UCSF announced a partnership with the online education company Coursera to offer three massive open online courses, or MOOCs, starting last month. This week, the UCSF Office of Continuing Medical Education approved one of the classes - Clinical Problem Solving - to count toward the credits that practicing physicians must accrue each year. Doctors earning continuing medical education credits from the class pay $125, while it is free for the other students. "This is in many ways an exploration to see if physicians out in practice are interested in taking classes in this format," said Dr. Catherine Lucey, the vice dean of education at the UCSF School of Medicine, who is teaching the class. http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Doctors-continuing-education-goes-online-4298674.php