Does “professional practice,” as referenced in Criterion 2, mean only patient care?
professional practice gaps
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,...
Examples of Professional Practice Gaps
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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 a...
What documentation does the ACCME expect for educational needs and professional practice gaps?
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 right in front of you. Your doctors tell you information...
Do I need to measure professional practice gaps in my own learners?
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 each individual learner and add those measures...
The provider incorporates into CME activities the educational needs (knowledge, competence, or performance) that underlie the professional practice gaps of their own learners.
How should I handle planning activities using confidential information about patients, physicians or our organization?
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 ACCME system needs to be...
How do we identify the professional practice gaps of “our own learners” and how does that relate to their "scope of practice?"
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 and saying:...
Do we need to have a unique professional practice gap for each session of a Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS)?
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 to use your 55 sessions, each as an individual opportunity to...
Michael Romano, Vice President of Medical Affairs at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa speaks candidly with Murray Kopelow, ACCME Chief Executive, about challenges and opportunities for changing physician...
CME that Addresses Nonclinical Professional Practice Gaps
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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 multiple domains, not...
How do I adapt traditional needs assessment approaches to the ACCME Accreditation Criteria expectations?
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 said: What do you want Grand Rounds to be on? We’...
Does the planning process for a CME activity have to follow the ACCME’s Criteria in order or in any special sequence?
The ACCME Accreditation Criteria can be looked at as an algorithm for planning. But they don’t need to be rigid and seen as inflexible and sequential and over a certain period of time.
The traditional way to plan a...
Common Noncompliance Issues
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Early in our transition to making accreditation decisions using the Updated Criteria we’ve seen some common themes and what providers are doing and how they’ve been operating that have produced non-compliance findings. Criteria 2...