Cross-team Collaboration: A Path to Improving Patient Outcomes

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

2:00-3:00 PM ET

OVERVIEW: The ASCO-ESMO Consensus Statement on Quality Cancer Care states “optimal treatment of cancer should be provided by a team that includes, where appropriate, multidisciplinary medical expertise….” However, engaging physicians in interdisciplinary education can be a logistical challenge. Reasons for this challenge include how physicians were socialized in medical school and the perception by physicians that their authority in the hierarchy is being challenged by the new focus on collaboration. To overcome these challenges, physicians must be engaged in team-based educational activities that can be linked to demonstrable improvements in patient outcomes.

Emerging Innovations and Best Practices in CME Activities

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

2:00-3:00 PM ET

OVERVIEW: Rethinking learning activities in ways that can improve learning is a critical requirement of the CME profession. Using innovative approaches to curriculum, instruction, and the use of technology to enhance learning is imperative to foster deep understanding and collaboration. Areas of emerging technology and learner-centered strategies likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression in continuing medical education include multi-user virtual environments, nonlinear branching or sequencing, real-time graphical response, gaming, collaborative annotation tools, data visualization, backchannel communications, and micro blogging. Platforms and methods that disrupt the traditional channels of learning will be explored.

Engaging Physicians in Quality Improvement by Teaching a Fair Culture: Partnering of CME, Medical Staff, and QI Leaders

CME is an effective and powerful partner of QI and Medical Staff leaders. Join us for this webinar to learn more about this successful approach!

Experiential CME: Moving Hearts and Minds

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

2:00-3:00 PM ET

OVERVIEW: CME is often presented in a lecture and PowerPoint format. Lectures have advantages in transferring information and are low cost, but they are ineffective in changing attitudes and behaviors. CME professionals play an important role in assisting physicians in gaining awareness of how attitudes and beliefs affect patient care. For example, listening to patient narratives can heighten physician’s awareness and sensitivities to issues of disparity, barriers to care and life experiences. This type of learning is experienced in one’s heart, not just the mind. Creating imaginative learning environments using experiential CME can lead to empathy, compassion and ultimately, to better patient care.

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You (and Your Program): Implications of the Stark Rule for CME Professionals

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

2:00-3:00 PM ET

OVERVIEW: In this session, our presenters will discuss the need for CME professionals to become familiar with Stark Laws. Given the current legal and regulatory climate, hospital-based CME professionals should be proactive in evaluating whether or not their programs adhere to requirements of the Stark Law. The speakers will share their experience regarding educating key physician stake holders, establishing guidelines and policies on Stark Law compliance, implementation of the process and how the CME program was impacted.

Lessons Learned in Creating a Robust PI CME Program: From Proof of Concept to National Rollout

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

2:00-3:00 PM ET

OVERVIEW: We will examine our experience in creating a nationally implemented PI CME program on acute coronary syndrome. A PI CME model was modified based on initial results from a pilot program to create the nationally delivered program. By comparing the pilot and national program data, we will discuss how adjustments made to the program ultimately affected its impact in terms of recruitment rates, educational and performance outcomes, and overall perception of the PI CME process by participants. We will also touch on the role of e-learning as a supporting tool that links individual and organizational performance.

Maintenance of Certification: A Physician’s Perspective

OVERVIEW: Every physician has a professional responsibility to stay abreast of his/her field in order to provide optimal care to patients. In addition, licensing authorities, hospital credentialing committees, and specialty certifying boards have a duty to ensure that physicians practice in a safe and competent manner. In that spirit, the American Board of Medical Specialties has championed the concept of Maintenance of Certification wherein physicians must regularly engage in learning and assessment opportunities. Since CME providers can play a critical role in the MOC process, understanding the experience of physician learners will help educators better design continuing medical education activities that also have been approved as a component of a maintenance of certification program.