The ACCME has announced the addition of four new board of director’s members. The new members include Mira Irons, MD; Carol S Havens, MD; David Pieper;,PhD;and Johns Hopkins’ own Todd Dorman, MD.
These new board of directors will start to serve their terms as of the March 2012 meeting.
From the Office of CME at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, we want to extend our best wishes and a happy holiday greeting to all of our education partners, the CME community, attendees at our educational activities and our business affiliates.
Happy Holiday!
We are pleased to offer our online registrants a new payment method – e-CHECK. To pay by e-CHECK, register online, select e-CHECK as your payment method and then enter your routing number and account number from the bottom of your check when presented with the e-Check Payment page. Your checking account will be debited for the amount of your payment. That’s all there is to it.
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As part of our ACCME reaccreditation process we hosted two surveyors on Monday November 14th for a face-to-face review session.
The surveyors had only a few clarifying questions regarding the Self Study but nothing major. They asked for clarification on all of the following items:
Additionally, they had a few questions regarding the activity files that were reviewed. Again, most of these were just questions to be sure they understood what we provided or to seek clarity of materials not provided for activities that had not yet been completed as of the filing date
The next steps are as follows:
The journal Academic Medicine, which has the highest impact factor of journals dedicated to medical education, just released its annual question of the year edition. The Editor asked, What improvements in medical education will lead to better health for individuals and populations? Over 120 submissions were received and 15 were accepted and published in this month’s edition. One of the published articles was on the future of CME and was co-authored by our Associate Dean and Director, Todd Dorman, MD and is available free through the link below.
Recently the Institute of Medicine (IOM) elected three additional Hopkins faculty to its membership. This is always a great honor and we are quite fortunate to have a number of our faculty serving with the IOM. Each of these new members is a true expert in their own right and will certainly contribute significantly to the IOM mission. It is especially gratifying for me, given the inclusion of Peter Pronovost as I have been honored to have served as one of Peter’s mentors for the last decade.
CONGRATULATIONS!
We are pleased to announce that our Associate Dean & Director, Todd Dorman, MD has been promoted to the position of Senior Associate Dean for Education Coordination (SADEC). His duties will focus on integrating and coordinating the activities among all the various SOM offices that handle education-related matters (including UME, GME & CME). The immediate focus will be on those offices that utilize IT functions (i.e., Office of Academic Computing, Office of IT, Office of Curriculum, Financial Aid, and Admissions). Dr. Dorman will remain the Associate Dean and Director for CME.
Over the course of the next few months we will begin a search for an Assistant Dean to join our leadership team.
Stay tuned for more updates!
As reported a few weeks ago, the next step in our reaccreditation process is an interview with ACCME surveyors that will give us an opportunity to clarify any questions they may have on the documents we submitted in July and to provide additional details as needed.
That interview is now scheduled for Monday, November 14. The ACCME typically conducts these interviews via conference call but we requested (and were granted) a face-to-face meeting in our office in Baltimore. We are looking forward to this opportunity to showcase our CME program.
As previously reported, after the interview the accreditation process will become internal to ACCME and we will be notified of results and accreditation status in March 2012.
This week as been an eventful one here at OCME. On Tuesday, we experienced a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ones to ever occur in the state of Maryland. Saturday brought Hurricane Irene. Other than a good shaking and a few leaks, we are happy to say we got through both events with no damage, and no changes to our scheduled activities.
Truly a wonderful place to be and OCME is extremely proud to be a significant component of such a vital and invigorating environment.
