What We're Saying...

04/15/2010 
CME Enterprise' was recently recognized as the recipient of the  2010 Alliance Award for Innovation in Continuing Professional Development for the CME Professional and/or Enterprise in the April 2010 issue of the Alliance for CME's Almanac.  Through our CPD program, we utilize practical methods and tools to put the Alliance competencies into practice. We capitalize on many of the skills and practices our staff of CME professionals already use in planning and implementing CME activities, thus representing an internal application of adult learning, activity planning, and measurement principles. We are truly committed to walking the talk by investing in our own staff performance improvement and lifelong learning.

03/08/2010
Check out the cover story in the March/April 2010 issue of Medical Meetings Magazine, "Workshop Brings Quality Improvement Methods from Manufacturing to Continuing Medical Education," to learn more about a bold initiative by CME Enterprise and the Indiana University School of Medicine, which aims to develop a collaborative model amongst clinicians, CME professionals, and healthcare quality improvement professionals that will lead to concrete performance improvement. Using a unique combination of train-the-trainer workshops, a total quality improvement management process, practical tools, and a Web-based community of practice, we hope to show how these professionals can work together seamlessly to achieve sustainable, measurable performance improvement.
Bruce Bellande, PhD, FACME, CCMEP; Charles Clark, Jr, MD; Zev Winicur, PhD; Kathleen Cox, MS

02/01/2010
Physician self-assessment can be a growth area for CME, but external validation and clinician privacy need to come first. Click to read our commentary, "Urgently Needed: A Safe Place for Self-Assessment on the Path to Maintaining Competence and Improving Performance," on this complex topic in the January 2010 Academic Medicine, the official, peer-reviewed journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Bruce Bellande, PhD, FACME, CCMEP; Zev Winicur, PhD; Kathleen Cox, MS

7/15/09
The second of our two-part article, "The Future of Medical Relicensure and the Responsibility of CME: Part 2 of 2," appeared in the June 2009 issue of the Alliance for CME's Almanac. It reviews the positions and recommendations of the Federation of State Medical Boards and the American Board of Medical Specialty's 24 certifying boards. Also, it suggests that emerging state medical board MOL requirements and the present focus in CME on self-assessment and continuous improvement create a prime opportunity for effective collaboration toward what is fundamentally a common goal. Included at the close is a call to action for CME professionals, underscoring the importance of providers being poised to act upon the latest data and provide timely, relevant, high impact education that will add value to physicians in the evolving requirements for both MOL and MOC.
Bruce Bellande, PhD, FACME, CCMEP; Heather Flynn, BS

06/15/09
CME Enterprise was featured as the cover story of the May 2009 issue of the Alliance for CME's Almanac, with the first of our two-part article "The Future of Medical Relicensure and the Responsibility of CME: Part 1 of 2." This article reviews the differences between the current state of maintenance of licensure (MOL) and maintenance of certification (MOC). MOC, the CME of the future, must focus on competency-based assessment and assuring maintenance of physician competence in order to both meet requirements of various health care community stakeholders and independent agencies and answer the public's demands for accountability and genuine, ongoing demonstration of the physician's ability to provide quality medical care.
Bruce Bellande, PhD, FACME, CCMEP; Heather Flynn, BS

Missed us at the Alliance's 35th Annual Meeting?

Check out the presentations below to catch up on what five members of the CME Enterprise staff contributed to this year's event!

Tuesday, January 28, 2010
2:45 - 3:45 PM (Breakout T42)
Physician Self-assessment: A CME/CPD Professional Competency
Principal Presenter: Bruce Bellande, PhD, FACME, CCMEP

Friday, January 29, 2010
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM (Breakout F29)
Practicing What We Preach: Tools for Getting Serious About Our Own CPD*
Principal Presenter: Heather Flynn, BS
Co-Presenters: Sheila Robertson, MPH, CCMEP; Rick Thielen, PhD

*CME Enterprise also won the 2010 Alliance Award for Innovation in Continuing Professional Development for the CME Professional and/or Enterprise and presented an awards poster on its staff CPD program titled, "Educating from the Inside Out: A Provider Model for Continuing Professional Development of CME Professionals" (Exhibit AP1).

A highlight of this award is also featured in the April 2010 issue of the Alliance for CME's Almanac.

Saturday, January 30, 2010
10:00 - 11:00 AM (Breakout S17)
The Partnership Handbook: Tips and Tools for Managing Collaborative Partnerships
Principal Presenter: Mary Ales, BA
Co-Presenters: Shelly Rodrigues, CAE; Robyn Snyder, BA; Mary Conklin, BS

To read all of this year's abstracts, please visit the Alliance's Schedule at a Glance.