PAI 14: PAs and Continuing Medical Education
Once you graduate from PA school, the learning isn’t over. Sure, you learn on the job, but there’s still official learning to do. To maintain your license and national certification, there are specific requirements. In this episode we cover what you have to do to maintain your license and cert with continuing medical education (CME).The postPAI 14: PAs and Continuing Medical Education appeared first onInside PA Training. (Source: Inside PA Training)
Source: Inside PA Training - November 1, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Paul Paul Kubin - physician assistant, PA career coach, and publisher of Inside PA Training Tags: Podcast CME continuing education continuing medical education Source Type: blogs
PAI 14: PAs and Continuing Medical Education
Once you graduate from PA school, the learning isn't over. Sure, you learn on the job, but there's still official learning to do. To maintain your license and national certification, there are specific requirements. In this episode we cover what you have to do to maintain your license and cert with continuing medical education (CME).The postPAI 14: PAs and Continuing Medical Education appeared first onInside PA Training. (Source: Inside PA Training)
Source: Inside PA Training - November 1, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Paul Inside PA Training Tags: The Physician Assistant Insider Podcast CME continuing education continuing medical education Source Type: blogs
PAI 14: PAs and Continuing Medical Education
Once you graduate from PA school, the learning isn’t over. Sure, you learn on the job, but there’s still official learning to do. To maintain your license and national certification, there are specific requirements. In this episode we cover what you have to do to maintain your license and cert with continuing medical education (CME).…Continue readingPAI 14: PAs and Continuing Medical EducationThe postPAI 14: PAs and Continuing Medical Education appeared first onInside PA Training. (Source: Inside PA Training)
Source: Inside PA Training - November 1, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Paul Inside PA Training Tags: The Physician Assistant Insider Podcast CME continuing education continuing medical education Source Type: blogs
ACCME Releases Menu of New Criteria for Accreditation with Commendation
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) recently announced a Menu of New Criteria for Accreditation with Commendation. Accreditation with Commendation is the ACCME’s mechanism for recognizing and celebrating organizations that excel as CME providers.
New Menu
This newly evolved criteria reflect the values, principles, and aspirations that the community of educators shared with us over the past several years. The new criteria incorporate recommendations from a diverse range of stakeholders about how to advance CME’s role in the changing health environment and leverage the power of education ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 4, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Upcoming webinar about the strategic value of CME
The Physician Leadership Forum (PLF), a part of the American Hospital Association (AHA), is hosting a complimentary webinar about the strategic value of CME. The webinar is titled, "Improvement from Within: the C-Suite ’s Nimble New Partner is CME."Monday, October 10, 20163:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. CT, 1:00 p.m. MT, 12:00 p.m. PT)(60 minutes)For those attuned to the evolution of accredited continuing medical education (CME), there is a dynamic opportunity for institutional leaders to build collaborative "educational homes" that address strategic system goals while nurturing the professional development —and passion—of c...
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - October 4, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
ABIM and ACCME Expand Collaboration
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) have expanded their collaboration in an effort to further expand the number and diversity of accredited CME activities that offer ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points, and to work to simplify the integration of CME and MOC.
CME Finder
Part of the expansion includes an online tool – CME Finder – a web-based tool that is searchable and sortable. CME Finder allows physicians and others to search and sort for accredited CME activities that are registered for MOC credit by: activity provider, ac...
Source: Policy and Medicine - September 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
New Jersey Interactive “Transparency” Map
NJ Spotlight, a website that highlights “news issues and insight for New Jersey” recently created an interactive map of New Jersey doctors who received transfers of value from industry in 2015. The map, which can be found here, allows interested readers to see payments by zip code and details on those doctors who received the most money on the map, in addition to individual payments to doctors by searching the databases that are arranged by last names.
According to the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), New Jersey doctors and hospitals received nearly $59 million last year from drug compan...
Source: Policy and Medicine - August 18, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
JAMA Forum: The Pain and Opioid Epidemics: Policy and Vital Signs
This post authored by Diana Mason first ran in the The Journal of the American Medical Association Forum on August 9, 2016.
Diana Mason, PhD, RN
Near the end of my tenure as editor-in-chief of AJN, theAmerican Journal of Nursing in 2009, I asked one of the coordinators of our pain column to write an article on opioid dependence and addiction. The diversion and misuse of drugs such as oxycodone, with a resultant spike in overdose deaths, had been widely reported in the news media. Her surprising response continues to resonate for me as we face the urgent public health problem of opioid abuse.
The column’s coordinators,...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Pain and Opiods Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Total CME Funding Drops, But Income from Pharma Increases
The AMA& many other physician groups are lobbying in support of a Senate bill to exempt drug and device makers from reporting the value of continuing medical education (CME), journal reprints, and textbooks provided to physicians (seehere).At the same time, while total accredited CME income is decreasing, the pharma industry is upping its financial support of CME, according to the2015 Annual Report of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).Data from ACCME Annual Reports. Click on image for an enlarged, more readable view.However, pharma may be channeling money to CME through organizations th...
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - August 10, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: ACCME payments to physicians Sunshine law Source Type: blogs
ACCME 2015 Annual Report Released
This report shows that accredited CME is evolving constantly to meet the needs of new generations of learners and to address emerging healthcare challenges. The numbers in this report represent our CME providers' ongoing work and commitment to improving the quality and safety of healthcare in their communities. I am hopeful that review of this Annual Report can help healthcare leaders recognize the strategic power of education to drive change and create collaborative communities, and the returns that can be derived from support for and investment in skill development training for healthcare professionals.
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Source: Policy and Medicine - July 19, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
AMA, AAFP and Medical Societies Support Senate Bill Promoting CME Exemption in Open Payments
A long list of over one hundred specialty groups and state medical societies penned a joint letter to Senator John Barrasso expressing their “strong support” for S. 2978, the Senate bill that would exempt certain continuing medical education (CME) from Sunshine Act reporting requirements. Among the lengthy list of groups signing the letter were groups such as the: American Medical Association, American College of Cardiology, American Academy of Family Physicians, and Medical Society of the District of Columbia.
The groups note that the enactment of the senate bill would “protect the dissemination of peer and indepen...
Source: Policy and Medicine - July 13, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
