Lifelong Learning

How do physicians provide oversight toward the development of CME content, and what are the criteria for ensuring content relevancy at the point of care? Host Lawrence Sherman is joined by Drs. Scott Hirshman and William Mencia to discuss these and other considerations for physician involvement in CME direction.

What does professional development really mean in today's medical community, and how does this understanding shape the quality of clinical content for performance improvement? Host Lawrence Sherman is joined by Drs. Debra Gist and Ted Bruno to discuss these and other considerations, including which professional development tools medical professionals can utilize to better acquire information at the point of care.

What should practicing health care professionals know about the foundations for creating strong continuiing medical education, and how does the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions help in this regard? Joining host Lawrence Sherman is Robin King, Executive Director and CEO of the ACEHP, to talk about the modern nuances in generating quality medical education.

Point of Care CME is learning that is practice-based and takes place in support of specific patient care. Various devices, including computers or internet devices, assist the physician, usually as part of a clinical decision-making tool to reference evidenced based sources and apply a recommendation. Host Lawrence Sherman and Dr. Richard A. Berger, dean of the Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development at the Mayo Clinic and chair of the Accreditation Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), discuss breakthroughs, trends and the future of Point of Care CME.

Maintenance of Certification and Maintenance of Licensure are topics on the mind of every physician. But what is required and what is proposed? And how does this relate to continuing medical education? This program is a discussion of New Maintenance of Certification and Maintenance of Licensure initiatives and their implications for practicing physicians. Host Lawrence Sherman's guest is Dr. Humayun Chaudhry, president and CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States, a national not-for-profit organization representing the 70 medical and osteopathic boards of the United States.

Against a background of controversy over conflicts of interest, the relationship between continuing medical education and commercial supporters is evolving. Dr. Allen Lichter, chief executive officer of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), joins host Lawrence Sherman to discuss how best to forge a path to governing interactions between CME and industry support that will both make for great education and continue to involve the corporations that have a vital stake in the maintenance of high quality healthcare.

Where does the learning experience start and end? Where does social media fit into learning? Host Lawrence Sherman continues his conversation with Dr. Joseph Kim, physician technologist and vice president of medical affairs and technology at Medical Communications Media, Inc., and Dr. Brian McGowan, chair of the Alliance for CME's Committee on Emerging Technology, about how new technologies are being incorporated into lifelong learning to improve both the quality of education for physicians and care for patients.

Host Lawrence Sherman talks with Dr. Joseph Kim, who is a physician technologist and vice president of medical affairs and technology at Medical Communications Media, Inc., and Dr. Brian McGowan, chair of the Alliance for CME's Committee on Emerging Technology, to find out how new technologies, including social media, are being incorporated into lifelong learning to improve both the quality of education for physicians and care for patients.

As continuing medical education continues to evolve, assessing quality in the provision of CME is vital. Joining host Lawrence Sherman this week is Dr. Robert Harrington, director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute at Duke University Medical Center, to discuss quality and performance improvement in CME.

When CME content is designed and developed, it is based on educational needs assessments. But often needs vary across the spectrum of physicians and types of practices they engage in. What are some of the shortcomings of current delivery modes, as wellas CME types? How can they be improved. This is Part Two of a two-part discussion on the topic.