Intro to CME credits for PerformanceImprovement
The AMA has approved the awarding of Category 1 CME credits for Performance Improvement projects. The goal of all CME activities is to ultimately improve patient care. At this conference we are introducing a program which will allow you to earn additional CME credits for applying information learned here to your practice.
The speakers have been asked to submit a list of “evidence based” measures covered in their presentations. Up to five (5) additional Category 1 Credits may be claimed for completing a three (3) part exercise.
For Part 1, you will be asked to fill out a questionnaire before you leave this meeting, which will identify three of the evidence based measures you believe are applicable to your practice.These three measures should be “new” information or “new” practices you have not yet adopted but plan to adopt on you return home. A packet describing each recommendation including the supporting evidence citations can be picked up at the registration desk.The Part 1 questionnaire is also available at the registration desk.
ForPart2, when you return home, you willlook at the three evidence based measures you identified here and see how they apply to yourpractice. You will do an initial chart review of five (5) cases performedin the six months before this conference and use the Performance Improvement Project Checklist you will receive from the registration desk when you turn in the Part 1 survey.The results of this practice review will be reported on line to the Jefferson CME office. We estimate this reporting process should take about 15 minutes.
For Part 3, two months after the conference you will receive an email asking you to complete a follow up survey based on another mini chart review to see how well you have incorporates this evidence based measures you originally selected into your practice. Again you will report the results of this survey on line to JeffersonCME.
Upon completion of all three parts, you may claimup to 5 additional Category 1 credits. Professionalism dictates the honest completion of your practice review. Physicians are reminded that the American Medical Association’s Code of Ethics states in part “Physicians should claim credit commensurate with only the actual time spent attending a CME activity or in studying a CME enduring material.”