March 15th, 2010
This week registration for SACME’s Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) will open. If you are a leader in medical education in general and CME in particular, you should strongly be considering attending this exciting, interactive opportunity for personal growth that will have direct impact on your CME system.
It is easiest to describe the SLI as a series of “talks” with invited “speakers”. In fact, each “talk” will actually be an interactive session designed to fully engage the learner. Registration will be capped at 35 registrants in order to ensure interaction and engagement by all attendees. The “speakers” will actually be session facilitators encouraging interactivity.
The overall goals of the SLI include having every attendee walk away with a better understanding of themselves as a leader while possessing actual tools and actionable items that they can take back to their CME system for immediate implementation and ultimately improvement.
These sorts of activities commonly charge 3-4 times the amount of this activity making this an ideal high-value activity to attend. The registration fee will also cover a personal inventory that will be used in the activity and every attendee will receive their own personalized report.
To review this exciting program, the bio’s of the facilitators and to gain access to the registration system, click on this link http://www.hopkinscme.edu/coursedetail.aspx/80023971
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March 8th, 2010
The Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) continues to come together very nicely. The topics are in place and the speaker/facilitators are confirmed. Registration will open in the next 2 weeks for the SLI scheduled for July 26-29, 2010.
Given the intense scrutiny of CME, one of the sessions will include media training. This will be a multi-component session. One aspect will be related to classic interactions with the media and we hope will also include the perspective of a medical investigative reporter. This session will address issues of social media and how and when to respond or not respond. In addition, this session will include the attendees working with a facilitator to craft both an advocacy message for CME as well as a crisis management message based upon a case of your office or institution/organization being accused of providing biased programming. This facilitated session will also include the opportunity to obtain some on camera training.
This is but a single example of the exciting experience attendees will be involved in. Don’t miss this opportunity to advance your leadership skills through hands on experiential learning.
Tags: leadership; business of CME
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March 1st, 2010
So, after reading the last blog you may be wondering…. what are some of the issues that arose from the review and what changes are we making.
We are investigating a system whereby we could record every single activity or presentation that is provided at all of our activities via a laptop in at least audio format via a mechanism that could simultaneously capture the slide presentation and then make the material available in multiple media formats. This would enable a greater degree of flexibility to providing materials to learners as well as provide a rich archive of all activities and presentations.
We will need to rewrite our essential personnel policy and will add to it an essential procedures policy. We will review all crisis management process and consider dividing them into two broad categories; those in which we have some amount of time to prepare and those in which we simply do not. When we have time we need to a priori get announcements up on our website in advance of the activity and we need to be able to better control some of our web processes remotely. We also require a more fluid transition from a planned printed syllabus to storing on a USB device to simply making all material available as a downloadable pdf.
Our dedicated staff also found that remote access required more forethought than expected in some circumstances. We cannot require our staff to have this access, but we did find that many wanted to have the access and were very willing under the conditions of this type of crisis to work from home if they indeed had set up the access and tested it in advance.
These are just several examples of lessons learned from the blizzards of 2010.
Tags: business of CME, cme, disaster planning
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February 22nd, 2010
So, now that the snow emergency is over, we are in the process of reviewing and revising our disaster plans. We had many simultaneous events during this emergency that further stressed our system and I am proud to say we survived these because of a combination of the plans that were in place and our profoundly dedicated staff.
Here is what we had to endure on top of the 2 blizzards in a week and snow totals that exceeded the highest total ever for this area by almost 30%:
- a live meeting on-going in town as the first blizzard approached and a need to record the activity so that we could make it available for enduring material to those who wanted to get out of town early while also getting upcoming faculty into the hotel at the site of the meeting earlier than needed for local faculty so that the activity could be completed and they could be there safely
- a live activity in another state to start right after the second blizzard hit so we needed to get all materials and staff, including faculty, out early. This required flight changes and new arrangements at the site hotel as well. Also, staff could not get in to deal with additional requests for registration or information.
- a live meeting for the week afterwards, but the entire university was closed for a week and the roads were impossible in most circumstances, so gaining access to files so that the syllabus could be completed and cut to USB keys and all other final plans had to be completed by trying to use VPN access when feasible by staff that have internet access at home.
- an IT staff member who had done dedicated work for a single aspect of our system who was in her final week and was to not only complete all final tabulations for our annual report but also train other staff on her activities and provided access to files and systems. Some of this simply could not happen given the situation.
- staff at an out of town activity trying to get back to Maryland.
In addition to these there were additional issues at play, but one can see that the system was duly stressed and we have learned numerous things that we are now working to put into place to enhance our preparation for the next disaster.
Tags: disaster planning, meeting planning
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February 10th, 2010
The Office of Continuing Medical Education has resumed normal operations, after a record snowfall of over 3 feet. We would like to thank everyone for their patience and cooperation during last week’s outages.
Tags: snow; emergency
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February 1st, 2010
Returned from the Alliance of CME annual meeting. Great networking opportunities. Enjoyed the first medical school section meeting, but had to miss the second one as I had a Tri-Group and JCEHP owners meeting to attend. My Plenary on Discovering and Disseminating the Value of CME went extremely well with some great feedback from a broad spectrum of attendees. The second Plenary where I partnered with Ed Dellert and Dave Davis also went well. I think we made a great case for research as a distinctive competency that every CME office should be involved in in some manner and that everyone CME office should be reviewing and utilizing the literature that presently exists. It was also an opportunity to review that SACME offers a Manning Award, a Fox Award and holds a Summer Research Institute biennially as well as research oriented workshops annually as a marker of its commitment to research and scholarship.
ACME Presentation on CME as a Value Center
ACME Presentation on Future Directions in CME Research
Tags: alliance; cme
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January 25th, 2010
The AMA released its Winter 2010 CPPDReport on Continuing Medical Education. It includes an insider’s assessment of the state of CME health, by Todd Dorman, MD:
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/455/cppd30.pdf
Tags: CME; AMA
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January 19th, 2010
We are pleased to announce that Dr Bruce K. Shapiro has accepted the position as Chair of the OCME Advisory Board. Dr Shapiro follows an extremely successful 5 year period of leadership from Dr Christoph Lehmann.
Dr. Shapiro graduated from Boston University 6 year program with an A.B. and a M.D. He then did a pediatric internship and residency at Childrens Hospital and National Medical Center followed by a fellowship in Neurobehavioral disabilities here at Johns Hopkins.
Dr Shapiro is presently a Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Vice President for Training at the Kennedy Kreiger Institute, Program director for the joint Johns Hopkins and Kennedy Kreiger neurobehavioral disabilities program, and he presently holds the Arnold J. Kapute Chair in Neurobehavioral disabilities. Dr Shapiro is well published and in the last three years alone participate in grants from the FDA, HRSA and the NIH (NICHD/NINDS). To learn more about Dr Shapiro visit: http://www.kennedykrieger.org/kki_staff.jsp?pid=1058
We are extremely pleased and excited to have Dr. Shapiro at the helm of our Advisory Board. Please join us in welcoming him.
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January 4th, 2010
Later this month the Alliance of CME annual meeting will be held in New Orleans. This year our office is sending a reduced number of attendees given the economy. Importantly, one of our new staff members who works as one of our accreditation and compliance specialists, Etta Bates will be attending. In addition, I will be attending and have been fortunate to have been asked to participate as a presenter in the program. I will be presenting a session on CME as a value center on the 29th. I will also be participating in a Plenary session with Ed Dellert and Dave Davis on the 30th In this session, my role will be to discuss some research opportunities for CME providers.
Tags: CME; Alliance
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December 21st, 2009
One of the things we love about Johns Hopkins is the opportunity to work with such talented and accomplished professionals.
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Tags: AAAS Fellows, Johns Hopkins, Research
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