Plenary and Keynote Sessions
SACME Annual Meeting Barbara Barnes Keynote Address: Expanding the CPD Ecosystem through Equity and Inclusion
Dr. Sophie Soklaridis opened the meeting by sharing a very poignant story of a personal work experience that would forever influence and guide her professional work to promote the integration of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) principles into academic teaching and the daily practice of medicine. Medical schools are struggling to implement DEI principles into CPD learning activities using various creative and effective strategies. Dr. Soklaridis emphasized that “The thing we all have to remember is there is no point where any of this will ever be uncomplicated or straightforward..
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Plenary: Applied AI in Health—What the Education Field Needs to Know
Recent rapid advances in AI have struck the CME/CPD community with a set of challenges and opportunities. What to do? What is next? How will we handle the change? — are just some of the questions that come to our mind.
In this masterful lecture on Applied AI in Health: What the Education Field Needs to Know, Dr. Mamdani provided insight that can help us address the emerging questions. The lecture included a set of convincing examples of how AI improves healthcare delivery, reflected on what AI is and the complexity of its implementation, and discussed how the CPD community can better lead the digital transformation in the AI-enhanced world.
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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: 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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