Using Administrative Data in Primary Care to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Continuing Professional Development Program Focused on the Management of Patients Living With Obesity

Dr. Zevin: Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Ms. Morkem: Research Associate, Centre for Studies in Primary Care, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Dr. Soleas: Director of Continuing Professional Development and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Office of Professional Development and Educational Scholarship, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Dr. Dalgarno: Director of Education Research and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Office of Professional Development and Educational Scholarship, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Dr. Barber: Network Director and Assistant Professor, Centre for Studies in Primary Care, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

Correspondence: Eleftherios Soleas, PhD, Director of Continuing Professional Development and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Office of Professional Development and Educational Scholarship, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario; e-mail: [email protected].

Educational Support for this project was received from Medtronic and was received by an independent planning committee that allocated it to the program. Medtronic had no influence on the topics, format, or access to the learners. The author team thank them for their gracious support.

Disclosures: The authors would like to disclose that the evaluated CPD program received an unstructured educational grant from Medtronic Canada. The grant was overseen by an independent scientific planning committee including the authors of this grant and was peer reviewed by independent members of the health care community. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

This research study had approval from the Queen's University Health Sciences and Affiliated Teaching Hospitals Research Ethics Board (#621335).

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