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Insights for Managing Joint Sponsorship Relationships

Fri, 02/18/2011 - 14:53 — mmartin

Description: Ron Murray, EdD, Associate Director of CME at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, talks with Steve Singer, PhD, ACCME's Director of Education and Outreach, about his insights working with Joint Sponsors throughout the planning and delivery of CME activities.

  • ACCME Interviews
  • collaboration
  • communication
  • joint sponsor
  • jointly
  • performance improvement
  • PI CME
  • planning
  • sponsorship
  • ShareShare

Integrating CME with Quality Improvement and Promoting Physician Leadership

Mon, 12/06/2010 - 14:58 — mmartin

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.

  • ACCME Interviews
  • CME’s value
  • collaboration
  • EMRs
  • heart failure management
  • leadership development
  • medical staff services
  • multidisciplinary teams
  • physician leadership
  • QI
  • quality improvement
  • Silos
  • strategic planning
  • ShareShare

CME Addressing Quality and Safety: Joint Commission Perspectives (Part 2 of 2)

Mon, 10/25/2010 - 11:24 — ekennedy

Description: A discussion of how CME can play an essential role in supporting hospital accreditation requirements while improving practice and patient care with 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 second one in a two-part series.  You can access the first half of Dr. Schyve's interview at
http://education.accme.org/video/joint-commission-perspectives-part-1.

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
 

  • ACCME Interviews
  • C-Suite
  • CME
  • collaboration
  • continuing medical education
  • executive leadership
  • Focused Professional Practice Evaluation
  • FPPE
  • handwashing
  • health care team
  • hospital accreditation
  • hospital systems
  • infection control
  • Joint Commission
  • Maintenance of Certification
  • Maintenance of Licensure
  • medical staff requirements
  • Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation
  • OPPE
  • quality
  • safety
  • system-based practice
  • ShareShare

Engaging with the CME Environment - Both Nationally and Locally

Fri, 10/15/2010 - 14:58 — staffreview
Description: Gayle Akins, National CME Program Manager for Kaiser Permanente, talks with Steve Singer, PhD, ACCME's Director of Education and Outreach, about her experience engaging with the CME environment at a national, regional, and community level. Gayle and Steve explore Kaiser’s national strategic approach to integrating CME into a process for improving professional practice. In addition, she discusses her previous experience collaborating with community organizations to develop CME for community-based physicians about local heath priorities.
 
 
  • ACCME Interviews
  • Asian/Pacific Islanders
  • asthma
  • best practices
  • C16
  • C20
  • C21
  • collaborating
  • collaboration
  • communication
  • community-based physicians
  • engagement
  • Hepatitis B
  • improving professional practice
  • integrating
  • leadership
  • local CME
  • national CME
  • outcomes data
  • public health
  • regional CME
  • stakeholders
  • strategic
  • strategy
  • ShareShare

"Sorry Works" - Risk Management CME

Mon, 02/22/2010 - 14:49 — accmeadmin

Description: Tim Holder, MD, Chair of the Accreditation Review Committee at the Oklahoma State Medical Association discusses a risk management CME activity entitled "Sorry Works" with ACCME Chief Executive Murray Kopelow, MD. (Recorded December, 2009)

Description: Tim Holder, MD, Chair of the Accreditation Review Committee at the Oklahoma State Medical Association discusses a risk management CME activity entitled "Sorry Works" with ACCME Chief Executive Murray Kopelow, MD. (Recorded December, 2009)

  • ACCME Interviews
  • activity planning
  • adverse events
  • collaboration
  • communication
  • liability insurance
  • medical errors
  • medical malpractice
  • physician-patient relationship
  • risk management CME
  • Sorry Works
  • systems barriers
  • systems-based practice
  • ShareShare

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