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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...
The FDA letter notified manufacturers of opioids that "The [manufacturers of Opioids] must ensure that training is provided to prescribers who prescribe [their product]...To assure access to [the manufacturer's product]...
The FDA wrote, "An outline of the content for this information is described"... and attached an "Appendix A" to the letter which can be found at http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/UCM252179.pdf
The FDA also said,...
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...
Criterion 2 of the ACCME accreditation requirements ask that providers base their education on needs that underlie professional practice gaps. And as we know, the professional practice of physicians includes...
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...
