MICROPROCESSOR speeds double every 18 months. The total body of medical information doubles every 5 years. What we learned in medical school and residency becomes obsolete at an ever increasing rate. Nonetheless we are ethically, morally, medicolegally, bureaucratically (license requirements, hospital credentials), financially, and competitively bound to assimilate and implement this endless fountain of new information. How is the busy practitioner to keep pace?

Simultaneous with this burgeoning of new information there are more and more demands on our professional time. The need to stay in the office and generate RVUs (relative value units) directly competes for time that we would traditionally reserve for meetings and courses—usually to the detriment of education. Meetings not only cost in time away, but also have real costs in travel, accommodations, and registration. This is not to detract from the . . . [Full Text of this Article]