The past month, Congress did something that one may consider amazing. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sat down and agreed to permanently fix the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR. Then both t...
Storytelling is a critical element of continuing education. From the start, physicians are trained using stories in grand rounds, clinical case studies, and in lectures. To craft an engaging education story you need the following components:
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Each year, tens of thousands of healthcare professionals from around the world attend medical conventions in the United States. This geographic diversity of international attendees has lifted U.S.–based meetings into position as the premier locat...
The Alliance for Continuing Education in the Healthcare Professions' advocacy and membership committees recently alerted ACEhp members about an article in Forbes magazine about the “21st Century Cures Act” draft legislation that has been proposed...
All types of CME providers can demonstrate compliance with Criterion 21. The key is to establish a framework that is unique to the specific type of CME provider to manage issues related to quality improvement.
Similar to the sequencing of the human genome and NCI’s Cancer Genome Atlas project, the CME industry is on a path to using our data to uncover the most effective strategies for providing CME that leads to improvements in patient care.
