Significant improvement of physicians’ knowledge and clinical practice: an opportune, effective, and convenient continuing medical education program on functional dyspepsia

AimsThis cohort study aimed to explore the effect of a one-day online continuing medical education (CME) on the improvement of physicians’ knowledge and clinical practice on functional dyspepsia (FD).MethodsPhysicians were invited to participate in this CME via medical education applications. FD training videos made in advance were sent to participants via a weblink. Before and after training, participants were required to finish the FD knowledge test and provide case information of FD patients. McNemar test, Wilcoxon rank-sum test, Freidman test, Chi-square test, quantile regression, and generalized estimating equations (GEE) were used to perform statistical analysis.ResultsThere were 397 of 430 (92.33%) physicians finished this CME program. The total score of the FD knowledge test after training was significantly higher compared with before training [488.3 (468.3–510.0) vs. 391.7 (341.7–450.0), p