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Mission & Goals

The purpose of Pri-Med Institute's CE Program is to provide world-class, clinically relevant educational activities for clinicians that will advance the practice of medicine and the outcomes of care for patients. PMI is committed to providing superior quality continuing education that is evidence-based, and clinical management strategies that are innovative in design and that motivate clinicians to adopt appropriate, up-to-date practice skills.

Program goals
• To improve the health of the public through continuing education of primary care clinicians as measured by regional and national healthcare initiatives, including those published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, specialty practice associations, and the goals of the Surgeon General's Healthy People 2010;
• To develop educational activities that will help form, maintain, and increase the knowledge, skills, and competence of the primary care clinician and other specialists that relate to our core areas of clinical competency;
• Provide appropriate educational activities and opportunities on a local, regional and national scale;
• To develop educational activities, products, and services based on the needs of clinicians and their communities;
• To increase the CE Program's capabilities in measuring and understanding the needs of its audiences through increased research into educational needs and teaching outcomes;
• To increase the reach of our CE Program through innovative use of the Internet and enduring materials;
• To respond to the clinical and practice management needs of the clinician expressed through new technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of medical problems; and
• To meet or exceed the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the guidelines of the American Medical Association's Physician's Recognition Award (AMA/PRA)

Content Areas
• Primary care topics of importance/significance to physicians and other healthcare professionals
• Psychiatry and mental health topics of importance/significance to psychiatrists and psychiatric clinicians
• Bioterrorism and bioterrorism preparedness
• Obesity and public health
• Internet

PMI reserves the right to address other issues of medicine and expertise as developed in conjunction with the needs assessment process

Target Audience
Physicians and other health care professionals related to the topics of the CE activities

Types of Activities
• Live activities, which include original scientific presentations, scientific symposia and interactive clinical lectures;
• Enduring materials including print newsletters, monographs, CD-ROM, audio and video and
• Internet CE

Expected Results As a result of these educational activities, PMI fosters the continuing professional development of health care providers. The offerings are intended to enhance physician and other health care professionals' training and influence their behavior for the purpose of improving health outcomes. Pri-Med is committed to assessing the impact of the CE Program through qualitative and quantitative methods. Acceptable results will be demonstrated through post-activity measures of achievement of content goals on-site, assessment of pre- and post-activity knowledge via the audience response system at live activities, and pre- and post-activity outcomes measures. PMI will apply this information to future iterations of its live activities as well as to its ongoing needs assessment process in order to ensure that its educational activities are effective.

Our Course Development Process

• An in-depth needs assessment that identifies therapeutic categories and topics for educational activities, sets the course development process into motion.
• Pri-Med Institute then develops the learning objectives, upon which the activity will be based.
• Pri-Med Institute then works closely with activity faculty to develop course content. In some cases, education partners work with faculty to develop course content under the direction of Pri-Med Institute.
• Once content is developed, a multi-level content review process begins involving Pri-Med Institute, its academic partner - the University of Wisconsin, and its Advisory Board.
• After certification and delivery, Pri-Med Institute elicits clinician and expert feedback and evaluation to refine program content and review performance against the learning objectives.
• Qualitative and quantitative evaluation data, provided by program participants, are compiled. This evaluation data is used to shape both future iterations of the activity as well as Pri-Med Institute's global Needs Assessment. The feedback from the final evaluation is adopted into the program content.

Overview

Identifying the needs of healthcare professionals and ensuring these needs are met with a world class educational program is the goal of Pri-Med Institute. Accredited by the ACCME in 2002, Pri-Med Institute (PMI) is now an integral part of Pri-Med educational programs. From needs assessment to accreditation to working with educational partners and commercial supporters, Pri-Med Institute ensures Pri-Med continuing education programs are high quality learning experiences for participants, faculty speakers, and supporters alike.

Pri-Med sponsors conferences as well as other innovative formats of distance education. As a result of these educational activities, Pri-Med Institute fosters the continuing professional development of health care providers. The offerings are designed to promote the professional development of physicians and healthcare practitioners and influence their clinical practice behavior for the purpose of improving health outcomes. Pri-Med Institute is committed to assessing the impact of the CE Program through qualitative and quantitative methods. Acceptable results will be demonstrated through ongoing evaluation.

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