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SMCS CME Program

CME Accreditation StandardsSMCS CME Approval Process

Bary Siegel, M.D. Education Team Chair June 23, 2011

Postgraduate Medical Education

Postgraduate Medical Education

HistoryDefinition of CMEThe criteria needed for an activity to qualify for CME

1904 AMA formed the Council on Medical Education

1910 Carnegie Foundation Bulletin Number 4

1940-50s Council on Medical Education increased it’s focus on postgraduate medical education (PGME)

1955 One third of physicians reported no formal PGME in the last 5 years

1960s AMA House of Delegates established the Advisory Committee on Continuing Medical Education

1981 Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)

History of Postgraduate Medical Education

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education(ACCME)

• AMA• American Board of Medical Specialties• American Hospital Association• Association for Hospital Medical Education• Association of American Medical Colleges• Council of Medical Specialty Societies• Federation of State Medical Boards

AMA PRA CATEGORY 1 CREDIT™

Or EquivalentAmerican Osteopath Association

American Academy of Family PracticeAmerican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

January 1996, the California Medical Association launched a new not-for-profit subsidiary, the Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) to help improve the quality

of care delivered to patients in California

The IMQ Accredits Our Program

In order for us to award CME we must meet all of the IMQ’s criteria which also meet all of the

criteria of the ACCME for awarding AMA PRA CATEGORY 1 CREDIT™

What is Postgraduate Medical Education?

If We Create a High Quality Educational Program

• Do Physicians learn anything?• Does patient care improve?

What is CME?

The California Legislature defines Category 1 continuing medical education as follows: Continuing medical education activities that serve to maintain, develop or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance that a physician or surgeon uses to provide care, or improve the quality of care provided for patients, including, but not limited to, educational activities that meet any of the following criteria: – 1. Have a scientific or clinical content with a direct bearing on

the quality or cost-effective provision of patient care, community or public health, or preventive medicine

– 2. Concern quality assurance or improvement, risk management, health facility standards, or the legal aspects of clinical medicine

– 3. Concern bioethics, professional ethics – 4. Designed to improve the physician/patient relationship 2011 IMQ/CMA CME Accreditation Standards Manual

The definition expressly excludes:

Educational activities that are not directed toward the practice of medicine, or are directed toward the business aspects of medical practice, including, but not limited to, medical office management, billing and coding, and marketing.

2011 IMQ/CMA CME Accreditation Standards Manual

What do we really want to accomplish?

Improve the Quality of CareThus

Improve Patient Outcomes

Where Do We Start?

NEEDS ASSESSMENT

If there is no need for improvement there is no

need for CME

• Needs Assessment• Then call us

The Gap

The Gap

The difference between where we are today and

where we want to be

Interventions to close the gap should address the basic physician core competencies

Medical Knowledge

This is the ability to use medical knowledge for clinical problem solving and medical decision making.

Competency

The provision of timely, effective, appropriate, and compassionate

patient care.

Practice-Based Learning and Improvement

Understands patient care practices and assimilates necessary components for improvement. This entails the use of evidence based treatment to treat a patient’s health problems. This also encompasses the ability to critically interpret medical literature and use this to improve patient care.

Systems-Based Practice

This is the ability to understand, access, and effectively utilize the resources of a health care system in order to provide optimal patient care.

Interpersonal and Communication Skills

The ability to effectively discuss and exchange information with patients, their families, medical colleagues, and the health care professionals and other staff members.

Professionalism

Demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles and sensitivity to diverse patient populations.

Closing the Gap

Expected OutcomesAnd

How Will You Measure Them?

Expected OutcomesAnd

How Will You Measure Them?

If you don’t know where you are going how are you going to know if you get

there?

Measuring Outcomes

Knowledge

• Pre Test/Post Test

Competency

Intent to ChangeApplication of skills (ACLS, simulations, etc)

Post course survey

Performance• Self Report• Utilization and Review• Objective Change in Practice• Expert Opinion (not the strongest but useful)

Patient Outcomes• Chart Review• Quality Indicators• Survival• Decreased Complication rate

Bridging the Gap

Cultural and Linguistic Competency

CALIFORNIA AB 1195 California requires continuing medical education

activities with patient care components to include curriculum in the subjects of cultural and linguistic competency. It is the intent of the bill, which went into effect July 1, 2006, to encourage physicians and surgeons, CME providers in the State of California, and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to meet the cultural and linguistic concerns of a diverse patient population through appropriate professional development.

Cultural and Linguistic Competency

• Linguistic Accommodations• Cultural and Ethnicity data re diagnosis,

incidence, treatment, clinical care• Religion, faith, spirituality• Nationality, Race, Ethnicity• Age groups• Sex, Gender, Sexual Orientation• etc

Why Cultural and Linguistic Competency?

We want to improve patient outcomes

Sepsis

Needs Assessment

• Our current mortality rate for patients presenting to the ER in sepsis is X%

• We are in the top 10% Nationally• We want to be in the top 5%

GAP

We are in the top 10% and we want to be in the top 5%

Intervention

• Analyze the problem and decide how you can effect change• How can you improve performance and outcomes by

addressing physician core competencies?• Education

– Conference and lectures– Mailings to the House Staff on the early recognition and treatment

of sepsis– PostersLarger ER

Analysis

• Mortality prior to intervention and after intervention

• Are you where you want to be or is there still room for improvement?

How to Improve Patient Care

NeedsAssessment

Outcome Program

Gap

Regularly Scheduled Series

Regularly Scheduled Series

• Needs assessment• Gap• Intervention• Cultural and Linguistic Competency• Evaluation

How to Improve Patient Care

NeedsAssessment

Outcome Program

Gap

References

• http://www.amaassn.org/resources/doc/cme/pra-booklet.pdf

• http://www.imq.org/wpcontent/uploads/2011/05/April-2011-CME-Standards.pdf