ABOUT OUR COURSES
We have developed a
new approach to CME for primary care physicians using
distance education that stresses online interaction
between participants and immediate practice change.
This program can help you achieve Pay-for-Performance
incentives and possibly board recertification requirements.
Click the following links for more information about
CME and Accreditation
and Course Objectives.
Component 1 (One Module):
Improve colorectal cancer screening effectiveness.
- Patient acceptance
rates for colorectal cancer screening are low, increasing
risk for delayed and missed diagnosis.
- Physicians will
learn motivational
interviewing techniques from interactive multimedia
to boost patient acceptance of sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy
and fecal occult blood testing.
- Participants
will have opportunities to practice these techniques
with their own patients. They can report their experiences
to other enrollees via a discussion board moderated
by faculty experts in online learning, and learn from
their peers who are concurrently enrolled in the course.
Option to choose
from two additional performance-improvement activities
for additional CME credit, and eligibility for Part
IV specialty board credit.
Component 2 (Four Modules): Improve quality of care of patients with chronic illness.
Web-based modules will provide physicians with knowledge and skills needed to adopt the latest clinical developments in the target conditions of:
- Diabetes (how to bring down the A1c; new therapies in Type 2 DM; and how to start and manage insulin in the patient with T2DM)
- Congestive Heart Failure: recent management advances in the diagnosis and care of patients with congestive heart failure
- Post Myocardial Infarct Care
- Advising Patients on Advance Directives
Some modules provide the option to choose from two additional performance-improvement activities for additional CME credit, and eligibility for Part IV specialty board credit.
Component
3 (One Module): Reduce malpractice
risk and improve patient safety through improvements
in office systems.
- Substantial patient
safety compromise and malpractice exposure results
from mismanagement of clinical information due to
disorganized office processes.
- Participants
will complete a five-week mini-course on office systems
aspects of patient safety. The mini-course includes
a Practice Based Learning component.
- Each physician
will be supported to identify current weaknesses in
how critical information is managed in their practice,
and in response implement more robust patient safety
office systems.
- This project
will emphasize office systems relevant to PAP screening,
prostate, and colorectal cancer screening.
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