[Continuing education pathways. The training experience of the agency for public health Laziosanità]

In recent decades, the continuing medical education has experienced deep changes in terms of theoretical and pedagogical methods as well as expectations regarding the potential results. There is a growing need to initiate more effective programs, producing changes in professional practice and not only in acquiring new knowledge. In the national context, the Health Agency of Lazio Region has developed some formative experiences that have adopted these principles and have shown significant results. In the present article will be presented the principles as well the methods adopted in one of these programmes, a clinical pathway for the hospital management of hip fractures in patients over 65 years of age.