CE News Editor, Ginny Jacobs, reflects on her recent participation at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES). CES has a history of launching innovative products from VCRs to electric cars. This year’s meeting featured how technology like wearable devices has allowed patients to improve their healthcare experience at home. The innovative mindset fostered in CES should be embraced by CPD professionals.
SACME’s 50th anniversary featured Virtual Journal Clubs highlighting key articles from different decades. The final two sessions covered the 2010s with a seminal article on the impact of CME on health outcomes and implementation practices and the 2020s featured two 2021 articles on CME, emphasizing the need for both personalized and system-focused approaches to enhance professional growth and effectively address burnout.
This list of ten chosen articles also includes scoping reviews on: the impact of CPD on patient outcomes; coping with medical errors; emotions and clinical reasoning in medical education and clinical practice.
Quality Improvement (QI) coaching enhances healthcare initiatives by providing structured support and mentorship, helping teams refine projects and navigate complex systems. Effective coaching fosters psychological safety, leading to improved engagement and sustained improvements, essential for Continuing Education professionals.
The article outlines the journey of transforming a CE News draft into a peer-reviewed paper published in JMIR Medical Education. It highlights the collaborative efforts within the SACME community, focusing on the intersection of artificial intelligence and continuing professional development. The final paper presents a theoretical framework for understanding AI’s role in CPD.
The SACME Annual Meeting on March 23, 2026, will feature sessions on the role of generative AI in healthcare professional development and the demands of a hybrid-flexible model, alongside a thematic analysis of CME/CPD discourse from 2004 to 2025.
Developing communities of practice is vital for CE/CPD educators, but not all like-minded individuals reside in the same location. Holly Harris and colleagues develop a framework for producing values-based international partnerships.
CE NEWS EDITORS
Ginny Jacobs, PhD, M.Ed, MLS, CHCP, FSACME, FACEHP
Chief Editor, CE News
Raghav Wusirika, MD, MBA
Associate Editor, CE News
NOTE: Please let Ginny or Raghav know if you have ideas or submissions for future issues of CE News. We will strive to continue to highlight innovative practices, impactful research, and valuable expertise to advance the field of CE/CPD in the health professions in the best interest of clinicians, patients, and communities.
