The Alliance for Continuing Medical Education has been busy building a foundation for change in the nine months since it announced that it was broadening its scope beyond certified CME....More
Key opinion leaders, or KOLs, are content experts who know their topics cold. But when it comes to providing effective CME, the question is, can they teach?...More
Continuing medical educators are just now beginning to experiment with how social media can enhance the educational experiences they provide to healthcare professionals. In July, we invited two experts in social media and CME to join us for a webinar exploring how physicians are using social media, and how you may be able to incorporate the technology into your educational offerings....More
When it comes to problem CME faculty, accredited providers have identified three different personality types. Each type just so happens to correspond to a different Beatles song title....More
While we in CME do our best to develop case-based education and use virtual patients in activities, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is a role for patients in the entire continuum of CME....More
If there’s ever a part of continuing medical education that providers love to hate, it has to be the budget and reconciliation processes. Kudos to a collaborative working group that developed a standardized solution....More
The American College of Cardiology recently announced it was doing away with the traditional satellite symposia model for extracurricular certified CME at its annual meeting....More
A case study in how the convergence of smartphone and open-source Web technologies streamlined one university school of medicine’s grand rounds....More
Does the American Board of Medical Specialties’ white paper call for a new accreditation system just for maintenance of certification continuing medical education?...More