CME Corner/Blog 7/7/08

1) Our CME Program got a 2 year Re-Accreditation!!!

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this huge application/site visit - especially David Pepper, Jeremy Fish, Melinda Coby, Heather Wong, Joseph Chase, Nikeya Smith, Danielle Brodus-Zamora, John Lee, Keith White, Jeff Smith, Steve Tremain, Melinda Cody, and our excellent Medical Education Committee. The Institute for Medical Quality have increased the standards substantially in the last few years and we are very happy with this outcome. They were impressed by the breadth of our program, the availability of Distance Conferences, and our movement towards improving evaluation and planning based on the needs of our learners. They are striving for practice/performance improvement as their model for CME - and we will be adjusting our programming in these ways, while also responding to input from the residency and residents for their education. While some of the needs are different, I believe we can serve both the residents and our staff well. To create space for different conferences, we will be making changes to our present programming.

New conferences, ongoing or planned:
Challenging Outpatient Cases (Pepper/Lee)
Performance Improvement (Rael/Pepper)
Resident Journal Club (Carey/Siegel/Pepper/Tzieveli)
Multi-disciplinary conferences (Michele Madlock, Ed & Training)
Case-based (Saffier)

2) Tai Roe and I are starting to work with the IT dept. on developing an ISite area (CCHS intranet http://cchs/) for medical providers and residency information. We will be sending out a survey to get input - but please send your ideas at any time to either one of us for what information you would like to have there. We are trying to make it as easy as possible to get to that information.