On October 27th the Medical Society of Virginia sponsored a Virginia CME Provider Network Meeting from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center – Roanoke, Virginia. The meeting was hosted by Carilion Health System and targeted towards Medical Society of Virginia accredited CME providers and ACCME accredited Medical Schools in Virginia.
The Objectives of the meeting were to:
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Discuss CME issues that are important to CME provider practice. |
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Explore group solutions to these issues. |
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Share strategies and forms relevant to practice issues. |
The meeting utilized an Automatic Response System provided by Sentara Healthcare to set the scene for discussion of relevant topics that covered the following areas:
Updated Standards for Commercial Support
Financial Interests:
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How are providers handing conflicts of interest?
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What mechanisms are being used to identify financial interests? |
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How are providers determining which financial interests are relevant and need to be resolved and disclosed? |
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How are providers disclosing relevant financial interests to learners? |
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How are providers resolving relevant financial interests?
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Educational Grants
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How are providers obtaining educational grants? |
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What have their experiences been with on-line grant applications? |
Exemplary Compliance
Essential Area 2.1 Needs Assessment and Essential Area 2.4 Evaluation
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What do you need to do to receive exemplary compliance? |
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What sources are being consulted to identify educational needs? |
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How are providers obtaining data to determine educational needs based in practice? |
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Are any of the providers developing Enhanced Competency CME activities, AMA performance improvement activities or measuring outcomes in terms of changes in behavior or patient outcomes? |
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Discuss format for therapeutic and patient management outcome follow-up. It sounds like treatment plans need to have a research module and statistical analysis of the outcome. What format are providers using to measure therapeutic and patient management outcome follow-up? |
Regularly Scheduled Activities
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How are providers evaluating regularly scheduled conferences (RSC)? Are they evaluating each session of each RSC series? Are they conducting an evaluation of the series once or twice a year? |
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What are they measuring? |
Revised Criteria and New Model for CME
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What changes should we expect? |
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What should we do to begin preparing our CME programs? |
Approximately 25 attendees from all the targeted provider types were present and shared copies of CME program forms or documents that they were willing to provide to colleagues.
A follow-up summary report and evaluation can be provided on request and it is hoped that this meeting will provide an impetus for further collaboration and networking among providers in the Mid-Atlantic region.
For further information contact:
Ron Murray Ed.D
Associate Director,
University of Virginia Office of Continuing Medical Education
Tel: 434-982-3687
Rtm7a@virginia.edu
