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CME as a Strategic Asset

Simple and Effective Communication with CME Planners

Tue, 02/22/2011 - 16:21 — mmartin

Description: How can I make it easier to engage my stakeholders in the planning of accredited CME activities?

ACCME Chief Executive, Murray Kopelow, MD, suggests a simple algorithm CME professionals can use to act as facilitators of practice-based change when planning accredited CME activities. Using familiar concepts of the Plan-Do-Study-Act model, Dr. Kopelow offers five brief questions to help CME professionals and their stakeholders design educational interventions that meet the expectations of the ACCME Criteria while communicating the strategic value of accredited CME to address problems in practice.

Click here to download a transcript of this FAQ (PDF).

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  • CME as a Strategic Asset
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Engaging Physician Champions in CME

Thu, 01/14/2010 - 13:53 — kswimm

Description: Danna Muir, Manager of Accreditation & Education Outreach at the Massachusetts Medical Society talks with Steve Singer, ACCME's Director of Education & Outreach, about the value and importance to accredited providers of engaging physician champions for your CME program. (Recorded December, 2009)

  • ACCME Interviews
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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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