Prevention and Screening – the Role of Continuing Medical Education and the Professional Development of General Practitioners: A Presentation Given at the Conference: People's Health in the Family Doctor's Hands, Kiev, 8–9 December 2016

This article will explore the role of education in encouraging clinicians to engage with their patients on the topic of prevention and screening. It will start with a description of the process by which clinicians learn. There will then be an exploration of the conditions that are required for a change in the behavior of clinicians. Finally there will be a discussion of how to design educational interventions that will support change and look at how to apply this to the field of prevention