References & Resources

BEST PRACTICES IN ACCREDITATION - 6th EDITION CD

The 6th Edition of the Best Practices in Accreditation, now available on CD, reflects many of the changes in the world of continuing medical education. This issue has a wonderful cross section of examples from all ACCME provider groups and demonstrates the true diversity in the strategies, processes and tactics used by CME professionals in the delivery of timely and valuable education to physicians in all specialties.

The purpose of this resource is to provide a practical, user-friendly, reference source of tangible examples of the best practices demonstrated by CME providers and assessed as commendable by ACCME.

RECOMMENDED CME SITES, FROM THE TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION WEBSITE

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
o www.accme.org
Alliance for Continuing Medical Education (ACME)
o www.acme-assn.org
American Medical Association (AMA)
o www.ama-assn.org
Americana Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
o www.aafp.org
American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
o www.abms.org
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
o www.ahrq.gov
American College of Physicians (ACP)
o www.acponline.org
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
o www.acgme.org
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM)
o www.oim.com (Quality Chasm report – national advisor on health issues)
Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB)
o www.fsmb.org
Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG)
o http://oig.hhs.gov
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of American (PhRMA) Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals
o http://www.phrma.org/files/2004-01-19.391.pdf
Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) Code of Ethics for Interactions with Healthcare Professionals
o http://www.advamed.org/publicdocs/coe.html
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
o www.ihi.org/ihi
National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
o http://www.ncqa.org/Programs/HEDIS/
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse
o www.qualitymeasures.gov
Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
o www.physicianconsortium.org
The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO)
o http://www.jointcommission.org/
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
o www.com.hhs.org
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP)
o www.abqaurp.org

JOURNAL

JCEHP: The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions
Journal of the Alliance for CME
Subscription is provided with membership in the Alliance for CME
Articles are also on the web - www.jcehp.com

NEWSLETTERS

Almanac
Monthly member newsletter
Alliance For CME - www.acme-assn.org
E-mail: acme@acme-assn.org

CME Briefing
Professional Postgraduate Services, a Division of Physicians World/Thomson Healthcare
PO Box 1505, Secaucus, NJ 07096-1505

(News, opinions, and perspectives in Continuing Medical Education. Copies of this useful electronic CME newsletter may be downloaded at www.ppscme.org/cmeb)

CPPD Report
AMA, The Division of Continuing Physician Professional Development
Mary Kelly, Program Administrator, AMA PRA Standards and Policy
515 North State St, Chicago, IL 60610
E-mail: mary.kelly@ama-assn.org
Tel: 312-464-4668

ARTICLES and REFERENCES

The University of Toronto’s Research and Development Resource Base (RDRB) hosts a large variety of resources that can be searched by topic at: http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/search

The University of Toronto also maintains a set of Bibliographies which list key articles. They are updated annually and provide high-interest topics to CME professionals at: http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/research/bibliographies.asp