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quality improvement

Communities of Practice: Strengthening Internal Initiatives (Part 2 of 3)

Mon, 10/19/2009 - 07:55 — acantelmi

Dick Berger, Dean of the Mayo School of Continuing Professional Development, and Todd Dorman, Associate Dean and Director of CME at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, speak with Murray Kopelow, ACCME’s Chief Executive, about Community of Practice initiatives involving CME and other stakeholders within their respective organizations. (Part 2 of 3, Recorded August, 2009)

  • ACCME Interviews
  • collaboration and cooperation
  • Communities of practice
  • Criterion 11
  • Criterion 20
  • evaluation
  • quality improvement
  • School of Medicine
  • simulation
  • team-based care
  • Tumor Boards
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Communities of Practice: Working Beyond Organizational Borders (Part 1 of 3)

Fri, 10/16/2009 - 11:39 — accmeadmin

Murray Kopelow, ACCME’s Chief Executive, discusses Communities of Practice in CME with Barbara Barnes, Associate Dean of CME at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Morris Blachman, Assistant Dean of CME and Faculty Development at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.  Both Drs.

  • ACCME Interviews
  • collaboration and cooperation
  • Communities of practice
  • Criterion 20
  • quality improvement
  • School of Medicine
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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)

  • 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
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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)

  • ACCME Interviews
  • activity planning
  • competence
  • Criterion 2
  • designing for change
  • evaluation
  • expected results
  • guidelines
  • Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
  • knowledge
  • national data
  • patient outcomes
  • performance
  • Performance Improvement CME
  • performance measures
  • professional practice gaps
  • quality assurance
  • quality improvement
  • surveys
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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.

  • 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)
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Criteria Overview

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 16:14 — breakthrough

How would you explain the ACCME 2006 Accreditation Criteria for accredited CME in general terms?
 
Click here to download a transcript of this FAQ (PDF).

  • ACCME Video FAQ
  • activity planning
  • advertising
  • commercial bias
  • Criteria
  • designing for change
  • desirable physician attributes
  • expected results
  • format
  • independence
  • mission
  • needs
  • Overall Program
  • Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA)
  • professional practice gaps
  • promotion
  • quality improvement
  • scope of practice
  • Standards for Commercial Support
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Engaging Quality Improvement

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

Why should providers engage within a system or framework for quality improvement?
 
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  • ACCME Video FAQ
  • accreditation with commendation
  • CME as a Bridge to Quality
  • CME that Matters to Patient Care
  • Criterion 21
  • quality improvement
  • Read more

Improving Professional Practice

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

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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  • ACCME Video FAQ
  • accreditation with commendation
  • Criterion 16
  • performance improvement
  • professional practice
  • quality improvement
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