Continuing medical education (CME) is one way of keeping health workers
updated with the new developments and new insights in treatment and
approaches to health issues. It also helps them remember what is
forgotten. This study, conducted in Butambala Health Sub-district (HSD)
by interviewing all the health workers on duty found that health
workers knew the importance of CME. However in 2002/2003, CME
activities were not properly planned for while the selection of topics,
participants and co-ordination of CME activities in the HSD left unmet
needs in some areas of the medical field as well as ignoring some
cadres of health workers. Despite all this, the general trend of events
regarding CME in the HSD was positive. The study recommended proper and
participatory planning for CME preceded by training needs assessment,
increase of budgetary allocations for CME and the creation of a CME
registry for the HSD, as some ways to further improve the situation
