Joint CME providership AHABA and AAMS

Joint CME providership, AHABA and AAMS
Dear All
following up our discussion of offering educational activities, AAMS has agreed to offer joint CME.  We do the planning and paperwork, they give the credit.  It could include learners outside our organization.  This is very nice of them. 
We could get creative with this.  Let's discuss some time over a cup of coffee or glass of rosé.  Mariam and I are out of country May 25 to June 14 but would love to hear your thoughts.  Kenatz,
Jerry
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Critical elements of a CME program
Mission, program analysis and program improvement are required at least once during the accreditation cycle.
The criteria marked with asterisk (educational needs, designed to change, format, competencies, analyzing change) are required for each activity.
Also, California requires content related to cultural and linguistic competency as well as intrinsic bias training.
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Mission:
AAMS's mission is to promote healthcare excellence and cultivate professional development through service and education to its members and their communities in the Diaspora and the homeland.
AAMS' CME Mission Statement is relatively succinct: 

Mission Statement
Our mission is to educate our physicians and other members on valid and independent content that is relevant to their practice and that contributes to improvements to their competence.  

Purpose
The purpose of AAMS’s CME program is to provide high quality evidence based educational opportunities that are designed to advance learner competence and address the cultural linguistic competence in the populations served.  

Content 
The content is developed based on the gaps and needs of our learner audience and frequently includes, but not limited to the diagnosis, treatment, prevalence in the community, prevention of disease, practice management, and efficient and cost-effective health care delivery. The education is reviewed to ensure that it is fair and balanced and any clinical or non-clinical content supports safe, effective patient care.

 Target Audience 
The main target audience is physicians and allied healthcare professionals.

 Types of Activities Provided 
The educational programs will primarily consist of meetings that are one hour in duration. Occasionally a multi-hour, multi-topic, multi-speaker conferences or courses will be offered as well. The method of presentation for each activity will depend upon the previously identified needs and desired objectives, expected results, and setting of each activity.  Formats considered will include virtual, didactic lectures, case presentations, question and answer sessions, group discussions, workshops, and panel discussions.

 Expected Results 
The program fulfills its mission by providing high-quality activities that result in changes to learner competence.

What's AHABA's mission?
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Program analysis - Self-reflection:
Our educational activities should help us meet our mission.  Probably AAMS' mission as well. We should ask ourselves how it's working. What went well?  What didn't?
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Program Improvement / Development:
We should strive to tweak our CME program as needed to improve it. Basically, let's address the shortcomings found in our program analysis. 
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* Educational needs:
How can we do better than simply bringing in interesting speakers?  What do we need to learn?  Why?
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* Designed to change:
Improved competence, performance, or patient outcomes
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* Appropriate formats:
The teaching format should match the goals of the activity.  Lecturing is not always the best way to change physician behavior
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* Competencies:
also called Desirable Physician Attributes, these include other qualities besides knowledge or patient care.  Communication skills, teamwork, professionalism are examples.
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* Analyzes Change
We must measure the learning goals described in "Designed to change".  They should match.  If we list learning objectives, then we should measure if they were met.  If the goal of an activity is to improve patient health, then we should measure to see whether the patient health was changed.
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Criteria for Accreditation with Commendation are optional. 
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This is where it gets fun, where a good CME activity becomes a great CME activity.  We should strive to develop activities in terms of these optional criteria, and that will help AAMS get an extra 2 years of accreditation with the California Medical Association.  There are 5 basic categories:
  • Team-based education (interprofessional, patients/public, students/trainees)
  • Addresses public health priorities (data use, population health, collaboration)
  • Enhances skills (communication, procedural skills, individual learning plans, support strategies)
  • Demonstrating educational leadership (CME scholarship, CPD for CME team, creativity/innovation)
  • Achieves outcomes (demonstrated improvement in physician performance, healthcare quality, patient health)

 

 

 

Required wording for the Accreditation Statement

We have 2 areas on our (CMA) website that include the Joint Provider accreditation statement which I’ve included below. The Accreditation Statement is a CMA policy and must include California Medical Association as the accreditor and used verbatim.

Accreditation Statement:

  • FOR DIRECTLY PROVIDED ACTIVITIES:
  • The [name of accredited provider] is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • FOR JOINTLY PROVIDED ACTIVITIES: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the California Medical Association (CMA) through the joint providership of [name of accredited provider] and [name of nonaccredited provider]. The [name of accredited provider] is accredited by the CMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement:

  • The [name of accredited CME provider] designates this <learning format> for a maximum of [number of credits] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

 

Joint Accreditation statement:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the California Medical Association (CMA) through the joint providership of the Armenian Healthcare Association of the Bay Area (AHABA) and the Armenian American Medical Society (AAMS). The AAMS is accredited by the CMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Joint Credit Designation Statement 

AAMS designates this (learning format e.g., Medicine Grand Rounds) educational activity for a maximum of (#) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

 

 

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