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CME Designed to Impact Patient Outcomes

Fri, 06/17/2011 - 08:46 — mmartin

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.

  • ACCME Interviews
  • CME that Matters to Patient Care
  • communications
  • MECC
  • medical education company
  • Needs assessment
  • patient adherence
  • patient barriers
  • patient care
  • patient education
  • patient outcomes
  • performance improvement
  • quality gap
  • quality improvement
  • team-based care
  • ShareShare

Communities of Practice: Supporting State-wide Healthcare Efforts (Part 3 of 3)

Mon, 10/19/2009 - 08:34 — acantelmi

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)

  • ACCME Interviews
  • CME that Matters to Patient Care
  • collaboration and cooperation
  • Communities of practice
  • Criterion 20
  • national data
  • needs
  • Needs assessment
  • ShareShare

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)

  • ACCME Interviews
  • accreditation with commendation
  • Call a Meeting
  • CME as a Strategic Asset
  • collaboration and cooperation
  • coordination of care
  • Criterion 2
  • Criterion 20
  • Criterion 21
  • leadership
  • Needs assessment
  • patient experience data
  • Pay for Performance
  • performance
  • professional practice gaps
  • quality improvement
  • ShareShare

Implementing Big Change in a Small Community Hospital

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 20:16 — breakthrough

Description: Michael Romano, Vice President of Medical Affairs at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa speaks candidly with Murray Kopelow, ACCME Chief Executive, about challenges and opportunities for changing physician performance with CME.

  • ACCME Interviews
  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
  • CME as a Bridge to Quality
  • Criterion 16
  • Criterion 19
  • Criterion 21
  • designing for change
  • evaluation
  • guidelines
  • Hospital/Healthcare Delivery System
  • knowledge
  • leadership
  • literature review
  • Needs assessment
  • performance
  • Performance Improvement CME
  • professional practice gaps
  • quality improvement
  • Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS)
  • ShareShare

Common Noncompliance Issues

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 16:17 — breakthrough

Description: What are the most common areas of Noncompliance with the ACCME 2006 Accreditation Criteria?
 
 
Click here to download a transcript of this FAQ (PDF).
 

  • ACCME Video FAQ
  • activity planning
  • commercial support
  • competence
  • conflict of interest
  • Criterion 11
  • Criterion 12
  • Criterion 2
  • Criterion 3
  • Criterion 7
  • Criterion 8
  • designing for change
  • disclosure
  • evaluation
  • expected results
  • independence
  • knowledge
  • needs
  • Needs assessment
  • noncompliance
  • Overall Program
  • patient outcomes
  • planners
  • professional practice gaps
  • relevant financial relationships
  • resolution of conflicts of interests
  • Standards for Commercial Support
  • written agreements
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Traditional Needs Assessment

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 15:17 — breakthrough

Description: How do I adapt traditional needs assessment approaches to the ACCME 2006 Accreditation Criteria expectations?
 
Click here to download a transcript of this FAQ (PDF)
 

  • ACCME Video FAQ
  • activity planning
  • competence
  • Criterion 2
  • Documentation
  • knowledge
  • needs
  • Needs assessment
  • performance
  • professional practice gaps
  • ShareShare

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