IOM: Improve Clinician CME System
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- KEYWORDS:
- CONFLICT OF INTEREST
- EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING
- FINANCIAL SUPPORT
- INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE (U.S.)
- QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE
A new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report calls upon healthcare professionals to create a public-private institute to oversee the development of a new science-based multidisciplinary system of continuing education.
An Institute of Medicine report calls for a revamp of continuing professional education that, among other things, would provide interdisciplinary training in real clinical settings.
The Josiah Macy, Jr, Foundation commissioned the IOM to assess the possibility of creating a national interprofessional institute dedicated to improving continuing education for clinicians. Such an institute had been proposed at a 2007 conference hosted by the foundation. An IOM committee conducted an extensive review of the existing system of continuing education, assessed various alternatives for improvement, and ultimately recommended the creation of an institute that would bring together public and private interests to revamp continuing clinician education. The committee's report is available online (http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2009/Redesigning-Continuing-Education-in-the-Health-Professions.aspx).
At a briefing in December, Chair Gail L. Warden, …
