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professional practice gaps

Different Approaches to Planning CME Activities

Fri, 11/20/2009 - 14:27 — acantelmi

How can I effectively use the ACCME Criteria when planning my CME activities?

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  • activity planning
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Professional Practice Gaps and Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS)

Fri, 11/20/2009 - 14:10 — acantelmi

Do we need to have a unique professional practice gap for each session of a Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS)?

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Explaining Knowledge, Competence, Performance, and Patient Outcomes

Fri, 11/20/2009 - 12:58 — acantelmi

What's the difference between "knowledge," "competence," "performance" and "patient outcomes"?
 
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  • competence
  • Criterion 2
  • designing for change
  • knowledge
  • needs
  • patient outcomes
  • performance
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Defining "Professional Practice" in Criterion 2 learners

Fri, 11/20/2009 - 08:26 — acantelmi

How does the ACCME define "professional practice"?

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  • Criterion 2
  • national data
  • needs
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Measuring Professional Practice Gaps of Your Learners

Tue, 11/03/2009 - 14:56 — kswimm

Dr. Murray Kopelow discusses professional practice gaps.
 
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Assembling a State-wide Partnership to Address Quality Improvement

Tue, 08/04/2009 - 12:52 — accmeadmin

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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Measuring Improvement Using Clinical Measures

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 20:34 — breakthrough

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)

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  • performance
  • Performance Improvement CME
  • performance measures
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  • quality assurance
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Implementing Big Change in a Small Community Hospital

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

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.

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Addressing Substance Abuse with CME (Part 2 of 2)

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 19:36 — accmeadmin

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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Addressing Substance Abuse with CME (Part 1 of 2)

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 19:23 — accmeadmin

First 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 1 of 2, Recorded July 2008)
 
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