Purpose
pmiCME provides a broad range of integrated educational interventions that enable its learners to tailor education to identified gaps in their clinical practices. pmiCME education is high quality, clinically focused, and interactive CME/CE that enables physicians and other health professionals to facilitate the translation of new medical guidelines, clinical information, and practices improvements from the researcher to the practitioner. In concert with physicians’ maintenance of certification requirements and national health priorities, education is focused on competency, performance-in-practice, and its impact on the quality of care learners deliver to their patients.
Content
On an annual basis, pmiCME conducts, researches and analyzes needs assessments contributed to by over 60,000 clinical healthcare providers in support of its education purpose, focusing on changes to the practice environment of the practicing physician. Based on this analysis and other data collected from national guidelines, national healthcare authorities, and specialty experts, the content of education is planned that addresses these gaps in knowledge, performance, competencies and desired patient care outcomes. This research also aims at understanding physician attitudes and behaviors relative to clinical practice and education.
Based on analyses of national priorities in health care, pmiCME offers clinical content around the following key disease and therapeutic areas:
Allergy
Alzheimer’s/Dementia
Anemia
Anxiety
Asthma
Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy
Cancer in Primary Care
Cardiometabolic Risk
Chronic Pain
Colon Cancer
Constipation
Depression
Migraine
Overactive Bladder
Pain Management
Peripheral Artery Disease
Rheumatologic Disease
Sleep
Smoking Cessation
Stroke
Vascular Disorders
Women’s Health
Diabetes
Dyslipidemia
Erectile Dysfunction
Gastroprotection
Genital Herpes
Genetics
GERD
GI Motility Disorders
Heart Failure
Herpes Zoster
HPV
Hypertension
pmiCME reinforces learning messages by linking educational information through multiple formats. For example, participants are encouraged to learn in live formats and revisit key points available on Pri-Med online at www.pri-med.com and/or other enduring materials. All such materials encourage interaction through the use of case vignettes. The goal of pmiCME education is not only to provide knowledge, but assure that it is retained and accompanied by clinician implementation strategies that can be applied over time.
Target Audience
The target audience of the pmiCME’s CE/CME Program includes physicians, nurses, physician assistants and other health care professionals. Topics include those relative to clinicians practicing in primary care, endocrinology, psychiatry, cardiology, neurology, pediatrics, oncology, and other clinical areas.
Types of Activities
pmiCME offers a range of educational designs that serve to not only reach the breadth of the primary care audience but also to reinforce learning methods. Types of activities offered include:
Live pmiCME Education, including:
• Pri-Med Updates
• Updates in Psychiatry
• Updates in Cardiology
• Updates in Neurology
• Clinical Focus in Neurology
• Masters Class in Psychiatry
• Practice Solutions
• Symposia
• Updates in Pediatrics
• Diabetes in Depth
• Clinical Focus in Diabetes
• Clinical in Cardiology
• Clinical Focus in Primary Care
Online Activities posted at www.pri-med.com, including:
• Slide Lecture Series
• Patient case studies
• Clinical reviews
• Expert perspectives
Print CME, including:
• Pri-Med in Practice
• Pri-Med Pocket Guides
• Pri-Med Dialogues
• Hospital Wallboard CME
In addition, pmiCME offers non-educational interventions designed to assist learners in achieving the intended results of the educational process. Those interventions include customizable patient handouts, guideline algorithms, and medical care calculators.
Expected Results of the Program
A range of continuous assessments of quality and effectiveness is performed by pmiCME. These continuous quality improvement (CQI) tools include:
• Self assessment of the overall CME Program in compliance with the ACCME Criteria for Accreditation
• Measurements of activity effectiveness in terms of learner satisfaction, immediate learning, application of knowledge to practice, as well as physician self-reported performance
• Measurement of persistence in the application of learning to the practice environment
• Measurement of the adherence to key practice guidelines
• Measurement of physician competence through determination that clinical assertions were achieved over time in the practice environment
Various metrics for determination of success will be applied, as follows:
• Satisfaction, as measured by post-activity evaluation, meeting or exceeding the applied standard for this criterion
• Gain in learning, as measured by pre- and post-session/activity knowledge, meeting or exceeding the applied standard for this criterion
• Outcomes, as measured by generally accepted and innovative methods, including focus panel feedback, pre- and post-activity surveys, individual interviews—all of which is tied to performance in practice
• An in-depth
needs assessment that identifies therapeutic categories and topics for educational
activities, sets the course development process into motion.
Identifying
the needs of healthcare professionals and ensuring these needs are met with
a world class educational program is the goal of pmiCME. Accredited
by the ACCME in 2002, pmiCME is now an integral part of Pri-Med
educational programs. From needs assessment to accreditation to working with
educational partners and commercial supporters, pmiCME ensures
Pri-Med continuing education programs are high quality learning experiences
for participants, faculty speakers, and supporters alike.
