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3 Ways Positive CME Outcomes Benefit Hospitals
For physician learners, CME participation is a given. They’ve got to complete CME to satisfy a professional mandate. But physicians and their patients aren’t the only ones who benefit from CME. High quality CME activities – and, in particular, the high quality CME outcomes resulting from those activities – hold significant benefits for healthcare institutions.…
CME Outcomes Assessment is Easier Than You Think
Outcomes are a perennial topic of discussion among CME providers. As the ACCME continues to emphasize outcomes reporting, you may feel increasing pressure to measure outcomes consistently and accurately. That probably sounds challenging, and it can be. But when you’ve got the right CME technologies in place, it’s actually pretty simple. How to automate CME…
After Your Next CME Meeting, Assess Performance Change
What’s CME all about, anyway? If it was about awarding credit so that clinicians could check a box and move on, designing activities and organizing meetings would be simple. You’d just publish any topically-relevant content or book any speaker. Then you’d call it a day. But that’s not what CME is about. If you agree…
The Smart Way to Measure Continuing Education Learner Competence and Performance
How do you know your continuing professional education (CE) activities are effective? If you’re like most CE providers, learner competence and performance are key success metrics. They help you determine whether a CE activity actually has an impact on learner performance in the workplace – or whether it doesn’t. But assessing competence and performance isn’t…
Data Makes Continuing Education Relevant and Valuable
For many continuing education (CE) providers, offering CE to learners isn’t just a member benefit or an ancillary service – it’s a major investment. If you’re in that camp, enjoying positive ROE (return on education) from CE depends heavily on your learners’ experience. In particular, it hinges on whether they find your educational content to…
Is “Learning Time” a Precious Commodity in Continuing Education?
Does your life feel busy and harried? For your learners, it almost definitely does. At least some of the time. By historical standards, Americans have more free time than ever before. However, college-educated professionals enjoy far less of it than other demographics. For them, life feels busy because it is busy. Needless to say, making…
3 Ways Technology Improves Continuing Medical Education (CME) Outcomes
In an effort to continuously improve the quality of continuing medical education (CME) activities, education providers are getting serious about outcomes. Outcomes data, after all, can show you whether a CME activity is achieving the desired result: performance improvements that positively impact patient health. Tracking outcomes is inherently tricky. Learners might have excelled in an…
How Moore’s Outcomes Taxonomy Enhances CME Value
Outcomes demonstrate whether CME activities really improve patient care. To measure outcomes, the ACCME relies on a taxonomy developed by Donald E. Moore of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Here’s how that taxonomy – often visualized as a pyramid – breaks down: Participation Satisfaction Learning 3A. Declarative Knowledge 3B. Procedural Knowledge Competence Performance Patient…
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