[Creation of self-assessment tools for on-line continuing medical education. Modelization of a training session]

For several years, the sessions of continuing medical education organized within the framework of the Société française de neurochirurgie have been recorded on the "campus de neurochirurgie" website, accessible in a form called in "videostreaming" which structures the training session.

Using modern educational methods, how can we transform the scientific productions of our meetings into effective tools for on-line continuing education?

The article describes the experience gained while creating self-assessment tools starting from the teaching material transmitted by the person in charge of a continuing medical education session, selected and an example for demonstration.

We present the various written tools for self-assessment: multiple-choice test and script concordance test (SC). These SC were based partly on a clinical case with various test formats: units of diagnosis, investigation and therapeutics. In connection with the example chosen, we propose a model for constructing on-line continuing medical education sessions, which could be used by persons in charge of such training sessions in neurosurgery and in other specialties.

With the availability of on-line self-assessment tests round-tables videostreaming, this teaching method can be used to fulfil mandatory continuing medical education requirements.