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Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, Vol 29, Issue 2, 101-104
Copyright © 2002 by Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges


RESEARCH AND EDUCATION REPORTS

Using focus groups for continuing veterinary medical education needs assessment and program planning

DA Moore, DJ Klingborg, JS Brenner, and AA Gotz

School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis 95616, USA. dmoore@vmtrc.ucdavis.edu

Needs assessments are essential to educational program development. Methods of needs assessment include environmental scans, surveys, and focus groups. Focus groups are valuable and acceptable tools to identify learner needs. The method is a qualitative research technique that is most useful to identify the range of opinions or ideas on a topic. The purposes of this paper are to explore the literature in focus groups for continuing education research, to provide information on the reasons and methods to conduct focus groups, and to present findings of participants' views of the focus group process.


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D. A. Moore and D. J. Klingborg
Involving Practitioners in Continuing Education Needs Assessment: Use of the Nominal Group Technique
J Vet Med Educ, January 1, 2007; 34(2): 122 - 126.
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