The World Health Organization recognized continuous medical education as an immediate need and at the World Summit on Medical Education in 1993 in Edinburgh requested the member countries to put this issue as a necessity on the agenda and utilize it in order to maintain the professional competence of the graduates. This research was focused on developing an effective teaching model in continuous medical education programs at Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. Moreover, this research is an applied research in terms of objectives and concerns a descriptive-analytical study as research method of survey types. The statistical population of this research includes 560 faculty members of medical universities of the country who participated as an instructor in continuous medical education program of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. According to participants’ viewpoint, as a result, techniques such as lecture; question and answer; group discussion; round table discussion, and case method are effective are effective in coding techniques in continuous medical education.
