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Improvement from Within:
the C-Suite’s Nimble New Partner is CME
Graham McMahon, MD, MMSc
President and CEO, ACCME
Josephine Fowler, MD
Former Chief Academic Officer,JPS Health 1
Value of Accredited CE
ACCME
• sets the standards
• performs audits
• provides clinicians the reassurance that the education they’re participating in is:
– Balanced and evidence-based
– Designed for relevance - real needs and gaps
– Evaluated to guide safe, effective care
– Free of commercial influence
Klass D Academic Medicine 2007; 82 (6)
Ballistic Trajectory
Challenging Assumptions
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Continuing Education is an opportunity to create…
• Engagement
• Relationships
• Self-awareness
• Improvement
• Change
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CME can connect…
• The CE professional with the learner
• Across the medical education continuum
– Medical School, Graduate Medical Education
• Interprofessional teams
• With quality improvement
• With public health
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CE Professional
LearnerCommunity
LicensureCertificationCredentialing
Public Healthpriorities
Quality and Safety
priorities
EducationalExpertise
Evidence-basedIndependentMeets a need
Evaluated
Local Needs
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Things to Ask Yourself• What can I do to leverage the convening power of
education to achieve my organization’s mission?
• Are my educators and QI department collaborating effectively?
• Am I using my teachers effectively and developing them?
• Is education silo’ed between the professions?
• Am I using educational resources (space, sim center, IT) effectively?
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Key points
• Link your organization’s strategy with that of your CME department’s
• Reflect on how you’re creating and sustaining teams and collaborations
• Evolve to active, participatory learning
• Focus on longitudinal curricula
• Engage the team and patients
• Measure your impact10
Introductions
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Graham McMahon, MD, MMScPresident and Chief Executive Officer,
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
JPS Health
Josephine Fowler, MDFormer Chief Academic Officer,JPS Health
Why do hospitals and health systems need a CME department?
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How should the C-Suite and the CME collaborate?
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How do you think CME and QIshould collaborate?
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In your experience, what are the key elements in a CME department to make it effective?
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What are the elements of a collaborative culture that candrive change in a health system?
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Do you have any experience creating interprofessional collaborative continuingeducation (IPCE)?
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Have you seen CME augment team performance?
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What is the return on investment for CME?
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Have you seen CME help your organization achieve institutional goals?
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How/Does education help reduce burnout and absenteeism?
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What are the key skills of a CME professional?
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How does an institution effectively support its educators?
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What is the advantage of having an institution direct its own staff’s education rather than leaving it to national societies or other organizations?
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Additional Questions…?
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