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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Plenary: Changing the World One CME Activity at a Time
SACME was pleased to welcome Graham McMahon, MD from the ACCME as a presenter at the annual meeting. Those familiar with the messages conveyed from the CEO of the ACCME (the U.S.-based accreditation system) will recognize that Dr. McMahon consistently promotes the need for CME/CPD professionals to develop new thinking and apply more engaging approaches to their educational programming.
To his credit, as part of the evolution of the field CME/CPD, Dr. McMahon routinely highlights our collective need to practice what we preach. He underscores our goal as a field to strategically plan activities in a manner…
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Plenary: Building for CPD without Borders
This session began with Dr. Linda Hill, MD, MPH introducing why we care about CPD without borders. Dr. Hill is a Distinguished Professor and Assistant Dean in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health at UC San Diego and the Executive Director of the Asylum Seeker Medical Screening and Stabilization Program. During this session she specifically spoke to her experience in the latter role. Dr. Hill emphasized that we care about CPD without borders because we need to address historical inequities, we exist within biased health systems, we serve diverse communities, and we serve diverse health professionals.
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Plenary: We Can Do This—Leveraging CPD to Address the Climate and Health Crisis
“On a morning like this in San Diego, doesn’t it remind you how lucky we are to live on this beautiful planet?” Dr. Kurth opened with this question, setting the tone for a moving and action inspiring plenary in which she effectively elucidated that relationship between climate change and health. Her talk highlighted four key lessons.
The climate crisis is happening now. Drawing upon data from the Six Americas Super Short Survey (Chryst et al., 2018), Dr. Kurth underscored the growing consensus on the need for action to address climate change.
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SACME 2024 Annual Award Winners
Each year, SACME awards members who have distinguished themselves via their research, scholarship, innovation and/or extraordinary service to the SACME Board and general membership. Congratulations to our 2024 awardees:
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From the Editors
This, the 4th Annual Meeting Proceedings Report, attempts to capture the remarkable presentations that were made during the 48th Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) Annual Meeting. The goal of this report is to give this meeting a life beyond San Diego and to recognize the impressive talent of our SACME members engaged in CPD research. Its content, presented here for the first time in digital format, is now searchable to any CPD professional for future research and learning. As such, the meeting content becomes part of the historic literature…
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Oral Abstract Presentations
1. Harnessing the Power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in CPD Program Evaluation Author(s) Kenya A. Costa-Dookhan, MSc, Medical Student, University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine Marta Maslej, PhD, Staff Scientist, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Center for Addiction & Mental Health (CAMH) Kayle Donner, MA, M.Ed., Research Methods Specialist, Center for Addiction and Mental […]
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Posters
1. Doctors as Leaders: Implementing a Pilot Cohort-based Leadership Program for Early to Mid-career Physicians Author Purpose/problem statementRotenstein et al. (2018) stated that “unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. Even though medical institutions have designated “leadership” as […]
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E-Learning & Technology: Leveraging ChatGPT for Qualitative Analysis of Learners’ Feedback in CME/CPD Courses
The process of analyzing this course feedback through traditional human-conducted qualitative methods can be a daunting task. It’s a labor-intensive process that usually involves reading, coding, and thematic analysis. The time-consuming nature of this task often leads to shortcuts, such as analyzing only a small sample of data or skimming through the text, which can result in suboptimal and biased analysis. This is where we need a more efficient and reliable solution. Advanced AI models like ChatGPT offer a promising solution for this challenge. This process can be significantly streamlined, providing CPD professionals with rapid, accurate, and actionable insights, all while maintaining a sufficient level of reliability.
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Welcome and Introduction
Welcome to the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) as we celebrate our 48th anniversary as an outstanding and relatively youthful organization. Our fiftieth anniversary is coming and the planning has already begun, but let’s enjoy this moment, shall we? The Annual Meeting Program Committee has once again created […]
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Editor’s New Year Commentary
In early 2020, Dr. Dave Davis and I conducted what was to be the first of a two-part series of SACME’s Virtual Journal Club. It was held in January and it was designed to discuss how we plan for changes in our program portfolio. Specifically, how do we innovate so that we prevent long-running activities from beginning another ‘same-old, same-old’ offering?
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