Description: Rick Kennison, DPM, President and General Manager of Peer-Point Medical Education Institute, LLC, talks with Steve Singer, PhD, ACCME's Director of Education and Outreach, about his organization's experience with planning and implementing CME activities designed to improve physician performance and patient outcomes.

Description: Mike Horst, PhD, Director of Research and CME for Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, PA, talks with Steve Singer, ACCME's Director of Education and Outreach, about the successes and challenges of integrating education with Quality Improvement and Medical Staff Services at a state-accredited community hospital. As part of the discussion, Mike and Steve explore a physician leadership development course that his CME Department has developed and implemented.

Description: An exploration of emerging issues in hospital accreditation, including quality and safety goals and accountability measures by Dr. Paul M. Schyve, Senior Vice-President of The Joint Commission, and ACCME Director of Education and Outreach, Dr. Steve Singer.
 
This video is the first one in a two-part series.  You can access the second half of Dr. Schyve's interview at http://education.accme.org/video/joint-commission-erspectives-part-2.

Additional Resources:

1. Chassin et al. “Accountability Measures—Using Measurement to Promote Quality Improvement” from the 6/23/10 article in the New England Journal of Medicine - http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=3580
 
2. Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare -
http://www.centerfortransforminghealthcare.org/projects/display.aspx?projectid=5
 

Description: Damon Marquis, Director of Education and Member Services for The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, talks with ACCME Chief Executive Murray Kopelow about how his organization plans and conducts education on the use of surgical devices while maintaining independence from commercial influence and bias.

Description: Michele Beleu, Project Manager for Physician Education and Development at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, talks with ACCME Chief Executive Murray Kopelow about how to more effectively communicate with physician planners.

Description: Ginny Jacobs, Director of the Office of Continuing Medical Education at the University of Minnesota, discusses the role that physicians play in CME at her organization with Steve Singer, ACCME's Director of Education & Outreach. (Recorded December, 2009)

Description: Murray Kopelow, ACCME’s Chief Executive, discusses an ongoing state-based collaborative effort among CME providers in Minnesota with Kelly Nowicki, CME Administrator at the Mayo School for Continuous Professional Development.  Ms. Nowicki discusses her administrative role at the Mayo Clinic, providing insights to working relationships between CME and physician leaders. (Part 3 of 3, Recorded August, 2009)

Description: Murray Kopelow, ACCME’s Chief Executive, discusses Communities of Practice in CME with Barbara Barnes, Associate Dean of CME at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Morris Blachman, Assistant Dean of CME and Faculty Development at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.  Both Drs. Barnes and Blachman discuss strategies for successful planning and implementation of collaborative CME efforts within their respective states. (Part 1 of 3, Recorded August, 2009)
 

Description: Victoria Street, Director of Education at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), discusses a performance improvement-based CME initiative to address national performance measures with Murray Kopelow, ACCME Chief Executive. (Recorded May, 2009)

Description: Second part of discussion between Bertha Madras, former Deputy Director for Demand Reduction of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and ACCME Chief Executive, Murray Kopelow regarding CME approaches to address substance abuse. (Part 2 of 2, Recorded July 2008)
 
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For more information about the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, visit http://www.ondcp.gov.
 
For an overview of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's "Screening and Brief Intervention for Referral to Treatment" (SBIRT) program, visit http://sbirt.samhsa.gov/.

Description: Part 2 of the discussion between Debra Curran, Associate Director of Continuing Medical Education at HealthPartners Institute for Medical Education in Minneapolis, MN, and Murray Kopelow, ACCME Chief Executive about a regional initiative to address an important professional practice gap for family physicians and other healthcare practitioners that treat U.S. veterans. (Part 2 of 2, Recorded May, 2009)
 
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