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Analyzing Change in Learners
No. The ACCME does not require post-tests for any type of CME activity. In journal CME, some sort of challenge must be presented to the learner that is based on...
Through self-assessment or self-audit, the physicians in an ACCME accredited group practice might identify the following professional practice gap:
Professional Practice Gap = "We are not identifying any patients in our...
Yes, evaluation of learners' change in competence, performance or patient outcomes is required.
The ACCME does not require accredited providers to measure patient outcomes -- neither in their CME Mission (Criterion 1), activity planning (Criterion 3), nor evaluation of CME activities (Criterion 11)....
The FDA has asked the manufacturers to submit their proposed REMS to the FDA for approval. Of direct relevance to ACCME-accredited providers is the FDA's instruction to manufacturers that the...
In Criterion 3, ACCME is looking for the providers to proactively design their educational activities to address competence, performance or patient outcome issues. This is about objectives. This is the...
We’re often asked whether the mission statement needs to specify certain patient outcomes as the expected result of the accredited provider's CME program. And the answer is clearly no. In...
Criterion 11 is about being a reflective educational practitioner. Criterion 11 is about analyzing and synthesizing information. It’s about coming to conclusions about the success of your set of educational...
There’s a lot of ways to make these measurements that I’m talking about. There’s a whole world of psychometrics where wonderfully crafted multiple choice questions, large numbers of them written...
