Lifelong Learning

Host: Alicia A. Sutton Quality Improvement Education: a rapidly expanding model of education that emphasizes interdisciplinary teams with the aim to improve quality in care. For many, this is a natural development in education that coincides with emerging healthcare system models. But what does this educational trend mean for practicing physicians, and how does it leverage patient data analytics and electronic health records in ways that haven't been seen before? Addressing these and other questions is Destry J. Sulkes, MD, MBA, co-founder of Medivo Inc. and President of the Board of Directors for the Alliance for Continuing Education in Health Professions (ACEHP). 

Host: Alicia A. Sutton What are the factors of quality improvement and innovation in education models that truly impact a clinician's pursuit of lifelong learning? Joining host Alicia Sutton to discuss the latest trends and approaches in modeling continuing education is Scott Weber, CEO of Med-IQ, an ACCME-accredited provider. Med-IQ has core expertise in developing quality improvement and performance improvement education for medical professionals.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton What is Quality Improvement (QI), and how do clinicians anticipate trends in healthcare education toward this new standard in practice? Host Alicia Sutton is joined by Robin King, CEO and Executive Director of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) to discuss new QI tools that are helping build better team-based health delivery systems nationwide.

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Host Lawrence Sherman is joined by Dr. Mindi McKenna, PhD, MBA, Director of Continuing Medical Education for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Their topic of focus is the primary care physician's critical role in shaping the future of continuing medical education.

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Join host Lawrence Sherman in welcoming Dr. Brian McGowan, Chief Learning Officer of ArcheMedX, Inc, to consider how physicians perceive medical education across their career spectrum, from student to seasoned practitioner. 

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Host Lawrence Sherman welcomes Maureen Doyle-Scharff, Chair of the Annual Conference Committee for the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP), to discuss trends in evidence-based medical education.

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Host Lawrence Sherman is joined by Robin King, CEO and Executive Director of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) to discuss how patient-centered care initiatives within health care reform are catalyzing changes within the continuing medical education sector.

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Joining host Lawrence Sherman for a conversation on the enduring impacts of live education for health professionals are Ray Saputelli, Executive Vice President of the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians, and Marissa Seligman, Chief of Clinical & Regulatory Affairs and Compliance Officer for Pri-Med Institute.

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Physicians and other medical professionals face an endless array of options for how to approach their own continuing education throughout their clinical careers. But there is a science behind learning behaviors that can help improve the quality of clinical education at the individual level. How is this science being investigated, and what are the practical applications for lifelong learning? Join host Lawrence Sherman in welcoming Dr. Brian McGowan, Chief Learning Officer of ArcheMedX, Inc, to consider this personalized CME movement and its potential impacts on medical careers.

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Technological innovations bring countless new opportunities to the world of continuing medical education. How are these advances being incorporated now, and what does the future hold for leveraging these resources toward improvements in patient care? Host Lawrence Sherman is joined by health technologist Dr. Joseph Kim in talking about emerging medical education technologies and their practical applications.

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Trends in medical education can change quickly between the various disciplines and levels of care providers, from physicians to pharmacists to nurses. Janet W. Cline, President of Creative Educational Concepts, Inc, describes the process of building and working with interdisciplinary teams to develop professional education of interest to multiple players in the healthcare system.

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP How do physicians provide oversight toward the development of CME content, and what are the criteria for ensuring content relevancy at the point of care? Host Lawrence Sherman is joined by Drs. Scott Hirshman and William Mencia to discuss these and other considerations for physician involvement in CME direction.

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP What does professional development really mean in today's medical community, and how does this understanding shape the quality of clinical content for performance improvement? Host Lawrence Sherman is joined by Drs. Debra Gist and Ted Bruno to discuss these and other considerations, including which professional development tools medical professionals can utilize to better acquire information at the point of care.

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP What should practicing health care professionals know about the foundations for creating strong continuiing medical education, and how does the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions help in this regard? Joining host Lawrence Sherman is Robin King, Executive Director and CEO of the ACEHP, to talk about the modern nuances in generating quality medical education.

Guest: Richard Berger, MD, PhD Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Point of Care CME is learning that is practice-based and takes place in support of specific patient care. Various devices, including computers or internet devices, assist the physician, usually as part of a clinical decision-making tool to reference evidenced based sources and apply a recommendation. Host Lawrence Sherman and Dr. Richard A. Berger, dean of the Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development at the Mayo Clinic and chair of the Accreditation Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), discuss breakthroughs, trends and the future of Point of Care CME.

Guest: Humayun Chaudhry, DO Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Maintenance of Certification and Maintenance of Licensure are topics on the mind of every physician. But what is required and what is proposed? And how does this relate to continuing medical education? This program is a discussion of New Maintenance of Certification and Maintenance of Licensure initiatives and their implications for practicing physicians. Host Lawrence Sherman's guest is Dr. Humayun Chaudhry, president and CEO of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States, a national not-for-profit organization representing the 70 medical and osteopathic boards of the United States.

Guest: Allen Lichter, MD Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Against a background of controversy over conflicts of interest, the relationship between continuing medical education and commercial supporters is evolving. Dr. Allen Lichter, chief executive officer of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), joins host Lawrence Sherman to discuss how best to forge a path to governing interactions between CME and industry support that will both make for great education and continue to involve the corporations that have a vital stake in the maintenance of high quality healthcare.

Guest: Joseph Kim, MD, MPH Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Guest: Brian McGowan, PhD Where does the learning experience start and end? Where does social media fit into learning? Host Lawrence Sherman continues his conversation with Dr. Joseph Kim, physician technologist and vice president of medical affairs and technology at Medical Communications Media, Inc., and Dr. Brian McGowan, chair of the Alliance for CME's Committee on Emerging Technology, about how new technologies are being incorporated into lifelong learning to improve both the quality of education for physicians and care for patients.

Guest: Joseph Kim, MD, MPH Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP Guest: Brian McGowan, PhD Host Lawrence Sherman talks with Dr. Joseph Kim, who is a physician technologist and vice president of medical affairs and technology at Medical Communications Media, Inc., and Dr. Brian McGowan, chair of the Alliance for CME's Committee on Emerging Technology, to find out how new technologies, including social media, are being incorporated into lifelong learning to improve both the quality of education for physicians and care for patients.

Guest: Robert Harrington, MD Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP As continuing medical education continues to evolve, assessing quality in the provision of CME is vital. Joining host Lawrence Sherman this week is Dr. Robert Harrington, director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute at Duke University Medical Center, to discuss quality and performance improvement in CME.