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Addressing Practice Gaps
Perfectly. The ACCME Accreditation Criteria require that all CME activities planned and implemented by an accredited provider address educational needs derived from a professional practice gap of the provider's own...
Criterion 1 says, "expected results articulated in terms of changes in competence, performance, or patient outcomes that will be the result of the program." What definition of "competence" is ACCME...
This is an ACCME adaptation of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) definition of a gap in the quality of patient care where the gap is "the difference...
Yes. CME providers can offer activities designed to change knowledge. The emphasis now is on the CME provider knowing the "educational needs that underlie the professional practice gaps of their...
Criterion 2 requires that the educational needs that underlie the professional practice gaps of learners be incorporated into the CME activities. However, the CME provider does not have to collect...
No. Previous activity evaluations may contain expressions of need that underlie professional practice gaps.
Needs assessment is about understanding the basis for a 'professional practice gap' - in terms of an underlying problem with knowledge, competence or performance-in-practice. A provider may want to further...
On July 9, 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released its Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy or REMS for extended-release and long-acting (ER/LA) opioid analgesics.
According to the FDA...
The centerpiece of the FDA Extended-Release and Long-Acting Opioid Analgesics Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) is a prescriber education program about the risks of opioid medications as well as...
The ACCME appreciates that the FDA recognizes the value of accredited education and chose to leverage the CE system to carry out this important public health initiative. The ACCME has...
Since 2009, the ACCME has supported the role of accredited CME as a strategic asset to risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS) for FDA-approved products, provided the proper controls are...
Yes. Accredited CME providers can base their activities on the blueprint and be in compliance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support. As with any CME activity, accredited providers must...
So there’s two parts to it. There’s the process of it and there’s the content of it. You go out and seek information, you find information, you interpret information that’s...
Inside the problem, inside the challenge, is your answer. In the professional practice gap for educational devices that no one knows how to use, is that no one knows how...
Criterion 2 asks the accredited provider to identify the professional practice gaps of their own learners. It’s important to recognize that this moves us beyond handing surveys to our learners...
It’s also important to understand how to use our traditional tools for needs assessment using these 2006 Updated Criteria. For many, many years we’ve stopped Docs in the hallway and...
ACCME intentionally used the term professional practice gap in Crterion 2 instead of using patient care. That’s because there’s more dimensions to professional practice than just patient care. There’s research,there’s...
The ACCME requires accredited providers to understand the issues with knowledge or competence or performance that underlie a professional practice gap. Problems with knowledge, competence or performance that underlie a...
Who makes the measurements that wind up being used by accredited providers as professional practice gaps? Many providers feel or thought that they had to make an individual measure on...
No, you don’t have to have 55 professional practice gaps for the 55 individual sessions of your regularly scheduled series. That’s not what you have to do. If you plan...
Let’s talk about professional practice gaps. Let’s talk about Criterion 2: that providers must identify or understand the needs that underlie professional practice gaps.
Professional practice gaps are the description of...
Confidentiality of information in accreditation of continuing medical education is important. Let’s talk about this for a moment. ACCME some time ago made it clear that accredited providers and the...
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We at the ACCME spend a lot of time face-to-face with our accredited providers, providing educational support, explaining our process, and explaining our requirements. One of the messages that we’ve...
>>KOPELOW: So, can your program, your accredited continuing education program support education for the health care team? And my answer is yes. But you need to approach it with some...
