Continuing medical education: Why it ’s important and how to make it effective
With the escalating pressures on hospitals, health care facilities, and practitioners to be cost-effective, it is increasingly difficult to justify spending money on education and training. Education and training are expensive when adding together the costs of curriculum development and educators. While finding the right person for the job is important in getting the job […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/christine-lau-and-collette-williams" rel="tag" > Christine Lau, MD and Collette Williams, PhD, RN < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Practice Management Source Type: blogs
CAD management in cross roads : Ischemia vs Ignorance driven PCI ?
*ISCHEMIA trial breaks not in NEJM or Lancet but in Washington Post and Wall street Journal
After three decades into cardiology profession, one thing is very clear. We work so hard to create pseudo-knowledge and struggle with it for so long and feel awkward and guilty to come out of the mess. But we have to . . . in the overall interest of mankind, isn’t?
We aptly call the whole process as continuing medical education, but in the melee, often we ditch some of the precious gems as obsolete. (This tempts me to suggest discontinuing false education is also an option for medical knowledge seekers !)
Confucius has som...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - November 21, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: acute coroanry syndrome cto management ISCHEMIA trial ischemia trial summary land mark trial in cardiology orbita courage bari 2d shid stbale cad take home message ischemia trial Source Type: blogs
Geriatric Medicine Recertification Completed
I am happy to announce that I passed the test. I am referring to the geriatrics examination given by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). This means that I am recertified as a Board Certified Specialist in Geriatric Medicine.
Recertification is required every 10 years, and this was the third time I succeeded. You would think it gets easier each time, but the opposite is true. New drugs, new side effects, new theories of aging, and new statistics had me studying two hours each morning for a good five weeks prior to the exam. The test itself was a full day, with subject matter that covered the gamut medi...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - June 5, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey Levine Tags: An Aging World Art & Medicine Featured Medical Articles Geriatric Medicine Long-Term Care geriatrics gerontology Healthcare Quality Improving Medical Care Jeff Levine MD Jeffrey M Levine MD Source Type: blogs
3 ways to change your mindset in continuing medical education
The seeds of emotional turmoil inherent in medical education are planted early in the pursuit of becoming a doctor. It is the unspoken fear that medical students and residents experience each day on attending rounds. It is the worry of missing a vital piece of information from the history and physical exam of a patient. […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 30, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/stephanie-wellington" rel="tag" > Stephanie Wellington, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Education Hospital-Based Medicine Medical school Source Type: blogs
Surgical Coaching as a New Option; Will Busy Surgeons Respond?
All practicing physicians are challenged by the fact that healthcare is constantly changing because of new scientific and therapeutic advances. Additional burdens in the U.S. are the complex bureaucracy and reimbursement requirements as well as technical challenges such as those associated with EHRs (see:Relationship Between Clerical Burden and Characteristics of the Electronic Environment With Physician Burnout and Professional Satisfaction). Surgeons, in particular, face additional burdens as they age because of the manual dexterity that is required in the operating room. I was not familiar with coaching programs for sur...
Source: Lab Soft News - April 27, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Innovations Medical Education Medicolegal Issues Source Type: blogs
Book Review: Continuing Professional Development in Medicine and Health Care: Better Education, Better Patient Outcomes
The
imperative that physicians and all health care professionals must engage in
lifelong learning to remain professionally competent has been a recurring theme
for decades. The default has been to rely on lectures, the traditional continuing
medical education (CME) format, and journals to convey needed information. Now
it is recognized that the pace of change—as reflected by estimates of the
doubling time of medical knowledge, which have decreased from 7 years in 1982,
to 3.5 years in 2010, and is projected to be 73 days in 20201—has
accentuated the difficulties of remaining competent, let alone current, and the
delete...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - March 5, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective book review continuing medical education continuing professional development Maintenance of Certification Source Type: blogs
The Future of Medical Education Looks a lot like Netflix: Interview with Brian Conyer, CEO of GIBLIB
GIBLIB, named after Dr. John Heysham Gibbon, the revolutionary surgeon that invented the heart-lung machine, is an online streaming platform that provides medical professionals with access to high-fidelity, immersive 360-degree virtual reality (VR) video content of current medical topics and surgical procedures. The videos closely emulate the operating room environment, including camera angles from the surgeon’s point of view, and feature expert physicians at leading academic medical centers.
The company’s content provides students and medical professionals around the world with access to a wide variety of med...
Source: Medgadget - December 12, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Mark O'Reilly Tags: Education Exclusive Medicine Surgery Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
The art of medicine is needed to prevent migraine headaches
He spoke with an aura of superiority, in a slightly nasal voice, and his topic was migraines. It was in the late 70s, a time when there were few options to treat migraines.
“Most people who claim to have migraines just have simple tension headaches,” he scoffed. And in a move that seemed unorthodox at the time, he disclosed that he suffered from “real migraines,” so he knew all about this exclusive disease. He made it sound almost desirable by virtue of how rare it was.
At a continuing medical education course in Boston twenty-five years ago, I heard a different neurologist, this one a Dutchman, pronounce that most...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/a-country-doctor" rel="tag" > A Country Doctor, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Neurology Source Type: blogs
Oklahoma Requires CME for Prescribers
Many states have taken the cue from the federal government and started their own investigation and research into opioids and the way opioids affect their particular state. Recently, Oklahoma joined the ranks of the states who have not just looked into the situation, but also went so far as to pass legislation to stymy the state’s opioid epidemic.
One of the pieces of legislation passed was Senate Bill 1446, which asks the Oklahoma Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision to require continuing medical education (CME) for prescribers on opioid abuse and misuse, and also restricts initial prescriptions for opioids to a s...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 8, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
ACCME Adopts New Strategic Plan
Conclusion
The Board meeting and new strategic plan continue ACCME’s promise to continue to promote the development of high-quality CME that provides immediate and long-term benefits to society and fulfill the responsibility to maintain the highest standards of integrity and transparency.
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Source: Policy and Medicine - May 4, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
ACCME Announces New Collaboration with ABPath
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Board of Pathology (ABPath) are pleased to announce a new collaboration to simplify the integration of accredited continuing medical education (CME) and Continuous Certification (formerly referred to as Maintenance of Certification).
The ACCME and ABPath share a commitment to supporting pathologists’ continuing professional development and to improving pathologists’ performance and their care of patients. The collaboration is designed to expand the number and diver...
Source: Policy and Medicine - March 19, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
E & C House Subcommittee Slated to Review Eight Bills on Opioids
Recently, the House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee announced that it will hold a hearing on Wednesday, February 28, 2018, at 10:00 am, to review eight bills that will attempt to curtail the opioid epidemic. The hearing, “Combating the Opioid Crisis: Helping Communities Balance Enforcement and Patient Safety,” is the first of three planned legislative hearings to examine the opioid crisis and possible legislative solutions.
The following bills are expected to be considered during that hearing:
H.R. 2851, the Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues (SITSA) Act, introduced by Representat...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 26, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
ACCME Releases Report Highlighting 2017 Successes
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) recently released a new report, Transforming Continuing Medical Education Together: 2017 Highlights from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. The inaugural year-in-review report showcases the efforts of the ACCME and the continuing medical education (CME) community to leverage the power of education to respond to the changing healthcare environment.
The report aims to celebrate the CME community’s initiatives to drive meaningful change for educators, clinicians, and u...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 21, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
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 gap...
Source: Policy and Medicine - January 30, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Report Issued on Third Annual Joint Accreditation Leadership Summit
On June 9, 2017, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) participated in the third annual Joint Accreditation Leadership Summit. During this Summit, interprofessional continuing education (IPCE) professionals discussed various challenges and opportunities related to IPCE.
The Summit was conducted in three parts and included discussion about publishing research and disseminating success stories about IPCE; case examples of research in action; and “hot topics” in IPCE, with atte...
Source: Policy and Medicine - December 19, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
