Hopkins CME Blog

Did you know that you could view your CME credit records from our website? By logging in to this site, you can access 6 years of your JHU CME credit records.

To login, use the email address we have on file (the one you provided at registration), and your password. IF you don’t know your password, you can click the “forgot your password?” link under the password box and it will be emailed to you.

Once you log in, click the link on the left hand side of the screen labeled “Transcripts/Certificates”

A listing will pop up of courses you have credit records for, along with links to print your certificates for each one.

If you don’t see all your credits, we may have multiple records for you on file. This happens when we get different spellings or forms of your name (like Jerry on one registration and Gerald on another), or different email addresses (a gmail account and a hopkins account for example).

Don’t worry, we can merge them together, to get you a complete transcript. Just send us an email to cmetechsupport@jhmi.edu and let us know that you think your records are incomplete, and let us know if you use a different email address or spelling of your name.

To avoid duplicates in the future, use the same form of your name and the same email address when you register for CME courses.

Questions? contact cmetechsupport@jhmi.edu

We would like to share a DVD from our archives. This is a video recording of an interview with the late Dr. Philip Tumulty, renowned clinician and teacher at Johns Hopkins and the founding director of the Division of General Internal Medicine. In the course of the interview, Dr. Tumulty shares his perspectives on his lengthy career at Hopkins School of Medicine and relates his recollections on the early years of Hopkins GIM. The interview was conducted by another departed Hopkins GIM colleague, Dr. Norman Anderson. Dr. Tumulty’s interview is one of a series produced by the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society and were recorded with leaders of American medicine in the 1970s and 1980s.

Tumulty Interview (WMV)
Runtime: 1 hr 3 minutes 29 seconds. This interview was recorded in 1989.

In a recent edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine an article appeared reporting on the results of a survey of physicians and their attitudes regarding funding in CME. We recommend you consider reading this article as it seems to demonstrate that the physician community may not be aware of the firewalls and safeguards in place to prevent bias in certified CME. The accompanying editorial was written by our Associate Dean, Todd Dorman M.D. in conjunction with Ivan Silver MD from the University of Toronto.

PubMed citations:

to the survey results article
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21555662

to the accompanying editorial
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21555663

Later this week Dr. Dorman will be presenting at the PACME meeting in Philadelphia on The new CME paradigm: Not your father’s CME. In addition, in the next edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine Dr. Dorman, in conjunction with Dr. Ivan Silver, will have an editorial on a manuscript to be published in that edition that addresses an important issue within CME.

Dr. Dorman will be speaking at the Pharmaceutical Alliance of CME in May on “The new paradigm for CME” and at the Illinois Chapter of the Alliance of CME in late May on CME as a Value Center.

As mentioned in a previous release, this reaccreditation year we will provide occasional updates as to where we are as an office in the process of reaccreditation.

As a reminder, we are part of the March 2012 cohort and as such, have been preparing required materials for submission to the ACCME.

In February, we uploaded our list of activities to the PARS system to report all activities held or currently scheduled from April, 2008 – March, 2012 – there were 3,625 entries on that list! In March, we received our list from the ACCME of the 15 files chosen for intense review. At this point, we are completing our own intense review of those files to be certain all documentation is in order and files are ready for submission before the July 13 deadline.

We continue to edit our self study that is also due on July 13.

One of the final parts of the review is an interview with ACCME surveyors to review documents submitted and have an opportunity to discuss our program with them. We have requested a face to face interview and are looking forward to that this coming fall.

It’s a busy time in OCME. We are finalizing plans to incorporate All Children’s Hospital in St Petersburg Florida into our office now that the hospital has been formally integrated into Johns Hopkins Medicine.

We are finalizing our RFP response to the AAMC who is looking at academic CME offices to partner to jointly sponsor AAMC activities. These would include variety of activities including the annual AAMC meeting that will be in Denver in 2011.

We continue to make great progress on our self-study for our reaccreditation work with the ACCME. Our self-study is due this summer.

We look forward to meeting with Sibley, Suburban and Howard County hospitals leadership to continue discussion about crafting a CME model built around risk management and performance improvement.

April marked the end of Dr. Dorman’s term as President of the Society for Academic CME. During his term SACME made numerous advances administratively, organizationally and significantly enhanced the field of CME and the brand of SACME within the field.

During his past president year he will focus on creating important board related policies, updates to the bylaws, finishing a handbook of policies and procedures, and helping to lead the SACME Consensus Initiative.

(A message from the president and provost)

We are pleased to announce the appointment of the first Gilman Scholars, recipients of a new distinction recognizing the very best of the best at The Johns Hopkins University.

This designation honors colleagues who exemplify the highest ideals of the university, as demonstrated through distinguished research and scholarship, artistic and creative activity, teaching, mentoring and service. The title is open to faculty members in the academic divisions and to professional staff at the Applied Physics Laboratory.

The honor is, of course, named for Daniel Coit Gilman. He was our university’s visionary first president. He was also the champion in this country of a then-revolutionary idea: that universities best advance humanity by pursuing simultaneously both great teaching and path-breaking discovery.

Our first group of Gilman Scholars comprises 17 men and women from across the university. Among them are Nobel laureates, award-winning teachers and world-renowned researchers and scholars. The group was confirmed by the president upon the provost’s recommendation after nomination by the deans and directors. The Board of Trustees approved the nominations last week.

Gilman Scholars will retain the title until retirement or as long as they remain at Johns Hopkins. The existing group of scholars will help select up to five new members annually. The total number of Gilman Scholars will remain very limited.

The 17 initial designees are John Sommerer of the Applied Physics Laboratory; Charles Bennett, Adam Riess and Gabrielle Spiegel of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; Peter Agre, Diane Griffin and Alfred Sommer of the Bloomberg School of Public Health; Lisa Cooper, Andrew Feinberg, Carol Greider, Bert Vogelstein and Solomon Snyder of the School of Medicine; Jacquelyn Campbell of the School of Nursing; Andrew Talle of the Peabody Institute; David Lampton of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies; and Michael Miller and Joseph Katz of the Whiting School of Engineering.

More details on this new honor and brief summaries of the scholars’ accomplishments are available in today’s issue of the Gazette and online at

http://gazette.jhu.edu/gilman_scholars

Please join us in congratulating each of our Gilman Scholars. Their presence at Johns Hopkins does us honor and their brilliance, creativity and dedication inspire us.

Sincerely,

Ronald J. Daniels and Lloyd B. Minor

The Office of CME has made the move to electronic certificates, available as a PDF you can print or save to your files. The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is committed to going green wherever possible, and this was one way our office could contribute to that effort. The move has other benefits as well. The paper process took, frankly, a lot of time – both in printing and mailing. That meant a longer wait for your certificate. Electronic certificates are available as soon as the credits are entered into our system.

Once the credits are entered we’ll send you an email, letting you know your credits are available. We maintain 6 years of credit records on-line so if you lose or misplace a certificate, you can login at any time and print another copy.

To access your certificate records, simply login to this website, and click Transcripts/Certificates. All your credits will be listed, and you can pick and choose which certificates to print.
If you see a problem with your records, or need your login information please send an email to cmetechsupport@jhmi.edu and we’ll be happy to help.

Printed certificates are still available upon request.