It’s a wonderful position to be in to work at an institution that is well respected. The recent US World News Report article naming us the leading institution in healthcare for the 19th year in a row is exciting and daunting. We, in the office of CME feel compelled to work hard every day to do our best to maintain and advance the image of Hopkins and we take that role very seriously. We strive to provide diverse educational opportunities that meet the needs of today’s physicians whether they are in administrative, research or clinical practice. We want to help you stay on the cutting edge of information regarding disease and patient management and to help you advance your practice of medicine so that ultimately health care is improved.
Archive for July, 2009
CME Is Serious Business
Monday, July 27th, 2009Some CME Performance Stats
Monday, July 20th, 2009You may be interested to know that 99% of our registrants say we meet or exceed our stated objectives. 99% state that the content is good to excellent and more than 98% say the activity they attended was equal to or better than the average CME activity that they have attended in the past.
The Cochrane Review
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009The Cochrane Collaboration has published a review of continuing education meetings and workshops. The findings of this report support the findings from the previously published AHRQ monograph on the Effectiveness of CME as both found that educational meetings are effective. Specifically the Cochrane review found that meetings that included interaction with didactic sessions were more effective at creating change for serious outcomes than sessions that utilized either interaction or didactic alone. Similarly the AHRQ report stated that mixed modes of education were more effective than single modes. These two reports, when taken together should finally put to rest the notion that CME is ineffective. More research is needed to help guide educators as to the best instructional design for a specific desired outcome.