Information and updates on the rules, regulations, and codes that regulate continuing medical education (CME) and continuing professional development activities for physicians and other healthcare providers.
This past summer, over 300 stakeholders voiced their concerns and beliefs to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) about the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, or MACRA. As part of the ramp-up to the 2017...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the American Board of Internal Medicine have been collaborating to make it easier to integrate accredited CME with maintenance of certification. The ACCME and ABIM last year streamlin...
Wouldn’t it be great have docs at your continuing medical education activities raving about how lucky they were to have come to your session, and how tragic the missed opportunities were for those who weren’t there? The one thing that they’ve see...
Global Education Group and the Global Alliance for Medical Education have launched a new awards program for individuals and organizations that provide continuing medical education that makes a difference to healthcare professionals worldwide.
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With the pace of technology evolution and the need for savvy messaging even greater now than it was back in 2013, why are CME providers still sticking to email and direct-mail marketing—tactics that were more appropriate for 2001 than today...
Many medical societies are interested in providing Maintenance of Certification credits—it just can be a little tricky to pull off. Here's one society did it.
Total income for accredited continuing medical education providers last year was $2.4 billion, down from $2.6 billion in 2014, according to the Accreditation Council for CME’s 2015 Annual Report. The report includes data from the ACCME-accredited...
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education President and CEO Graham McMahon, MD, was among the more than 300 individuals and organizations in the CME community who submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...
Continuing medical education providers are tasked with researching to uncover the professional practice gaps of their healthcare provider learners so they can design education that will help close those gaps. How do these gaps differ from underly...