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:
Archive for January, 2010
AMA CME Report: An Insider’s Assessment
Monday, January 25th, 2010New CME Advisory Board Chair
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010We 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.
Alliance Meeting
Monday, January 4th, 2010Later 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.