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Assembling a State-wide Partnership to Address Quality Improvement

Tue, 08/04/2009 - 12:52 — accmeadmin

Description: Rosalie Phillips, Executive Director of the Tufts Healthcare Institute, talks with Murray Kopelow, ACCME Chief Executive, about a regional initiative for improving care and the process of assembling a team of collaborators. (Recorded May, 2009)

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  • performance
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Improving Care for Veterans (Part 2 of 2)

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 18:54 — breakthrough

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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Joining Forces website

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  • Criterion 3
  • Criterion 6
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Improving Care for Veterans (Part 1 of 2)

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 18:27 — breakthrough

Description: Part 1 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 1 of 2, Recorded May, 2009)
 
 
Visit these resources for more information:
Joining Forces website

  • ACCME Interviews
  • accreditation with commendation
  • activity planning
  • CME as a Bridge to Quality
  • CME that Matters to Patient Care
  • collaboration and cooperation
  • coordination of care
  • Criterion 11
  • Criterion 17
  • Criterion 2
  • Criterion 20
  • Criterion 3
  • Criterion 6
  • designing for change
  • desirable physician attributes
  • evaluation
  • format
  • leadership
  • non-educational strategies
  • own learners
  • professional practice gaps
  • ShareShare

Accreditation with Commendation - Criteria Overview

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 16:11 — breakthrough

Description: Can you explain the ACCME 2006 Accreditation Criteria expectations for Accreditation with Commendation?
 
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Collaboration to Improve Health Care

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 16:07 — breakthrough

Description: What are the ACCME’s expectations for providers regarding collaboration and cooperation, as articulated in Criterion 20?
 
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Addressing Barriers to Change in Your Learners

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 16:06 — breakthrough

Description: Why is it important that my CME program remove, overcome, or address barriers to physician change?
 
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Identifying Other Factors that Impact Patient Outcomes

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 16:03 — breakthrough

Description: How can my learners benefit from the identification of "factors outside of the provider's control that impact on patient outcomes"?
 
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Promoting Change Beyond CME

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 16:01 — breakthrough

Description: How do providers use non-educational or adjunctive strategies to creatively enhance change beyond CME activities?
 
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Engaging Quality Improvement

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 16:00 — breakthrough

Description: Why should providers engage within a system or framework for quality improvement?
 
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Improving Professional Practice

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 15:59 — breakthrough

Description: Can you explain how a provider may “operate in a manner that integrates CME in to the process for improving professional practice"?
 
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