Hopkins CME Blog

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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