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Communicating the Value of CME/CPD Effectively Within Your Institution
CME/CPD professionals continually face the challenge of effectively communicating our value within our institutions. Despite the critical role of continuing medical education/continuing professional development in improving patient care and population health, many leaders and clinicians still view it primarily as a mandatory credit requirement. Consequently, it is crucial for us to collectively explore strategies to convey our story, dispel misconceptions, advocate for our significance, and strive for representation in decision-making processes so that we are driving the mission of our respective organizations.
Read MoreAAMC Virtual Program on Teaching Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) Competencies to Faculty
The Association for American Medical Colleges (AAMC) hosted a seven week longitudinal and virtual curriculum to train clinical faculty and other medical educators on the QIPS competencies so that they may teach quality improvement and patient safety skills to their learners (ie other faculty, residents and students). The curriculum for this program was designed by a national panel of expert medical educators convened by the AAMC over a two year period. Entitled Teaching Education for Quality (Te4Q)
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SACME Research Team Completes CE Educator’s Toolkit
The CE Educator’s Toolkit, a unique educational resource, was developed by the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) through an Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) research grant in fulfillment of ACCME’s strategic goal to advocate for research and scholarship in continuing education. The toolkit is a unique and comprehensive resource designed to equip educators with best practices and guidelines to deliver effective continuing education (CE). The toolkit is now available and may be downloaded from
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Expanding MOC/CC to Your RSS Activities
This article discusses an academic experience, tips and tricks for expanding or getting started with MOC/CC Part 2 credits especially into RSS.
Lessons for CPD Practice: 1) Communication. Help providers understand MOC/CC, and that it is required of board-certified providers without lifetime certification. They are already doing most of the work for CME, so why not get those cookies? 2)Ease of use. Use clear templates to,,,
SACME Research Team Completes CE Educator’s Toolkit
The CE Educator’s Toolkit, a unique educational resource, was developed by the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) through an Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) research grant in fulfillment of ACCME’s strategic goal to advocate for research and scholarship in continuing education. The toolkit is a unique and comprehensive resource designed to equip educators with best practices and guidelines to deliver effective continuing education (CE). The toolkit is now available and may be downloaded from,,,
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Barbara Barnes Keynote Session: Black Butterfly Theorem: From Childhood Trauma to a Transcendent Healthful Self
Michele Harper, MD, is a phenomenal physician-leader who has detailed, in exquisite writing, the troubling and destructive gap many patients face in accessing equitable, humanistic care and the challenges healthcare professionals of color…
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Stanford CME Reimagines the Future of Work with its Online Conference
By Marilyn Mejia This past September 15, 2021, the Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education held an online conference on the Future of Work that aimed to address the ever-changing landscape of continuing education and reimagine work as the world gradually returns to pre-pandemic normalcy. This meeting of the minds resulted in a highly attended, […]
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Medical Education in the Information Age: Engaging learners and creating change across the continuum.
I had the good fortune to hear a presentation by Graham McMahon, MD, MMSC, President and CEO of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), on the emerging challenges in medical education during the virtual AHME Spring Institute last May, 2021. Nearly everyone in medical education today is challenged to master new…
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The benefits of librarians participating in Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO™) program
By Daphne Horn, MI, Terri Rodak, MA, MISt and Sarah Bonato, MIS For the past five years, Librarians at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have been participating in multiple Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO™) programs, resulting in numerous benefits for staff, program participants, the library and librarians. ECHO is an […]
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Stepping In 4 Respect: Building a Culture of Respect and Inclusion
By Jann T. Balmer PhD RN FACEHP FAAN One day after the presidential election of 2016, several of our residents reported significant discriminatory and disrespectful incidents in the hospital. The events of August 2017 in Charlottesville escalated the incidence of a pattern of discriminatory behavior in our health system and our community. Some of the […]
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