CME Continues to Evolve for Providers and Practitioners

Several articles about continuing medical education (CME) were recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). One article discussed the importance of regulatory alignment with the boards while the other discussed the proposed CME pyramid. CME Pyramid Medical education is an evolving field and as of late, there has been an increased focus on addressing professional practice gaps – the gaps between what physicians are doing and what they should be doing. Therefore, an outcomes framework has been proposed in the form of a pyramid that provides perspective on how addressing these practice gaps may be accomplished. According to the article, “[t]he pyramid is based on 7 levels of outcomes that are associated with the decisions of a clinician to participate in learning, to engage in learning, to use what he or she learned, and, at the summit, the effects of learning on patients and community. CME has traditionally been focused on learning (level 3) and in some cases on competence (level 4), which is similar to the “shows how” level of the pyramid in which a learner demonstrates to a teacher that he or she can do what has been learned.” The article further notes, “It could be argued that if CME contributes to improving patient health on a broad front, such that many patients and many diseases are affected, then community health, that is, population health, must necessarily improve,” which is the impetus behind the push for all physi...
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