CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME)

Mission

Our Continuing Medical Education (CME) program is dedicated to providing high-quality educational activities that maintain, develop, and enhance the knowledge, skills, and professional performance of Urgent Care clinicians. We aim to support clinicians in delivering exceptional patient care and fostering professional growth within the Urgent Care field. 

Expected Results 

• Enhanced Clinical Competence: Clinicians will acquire up-to-date knowledge and skills in Urgent Care competencies and current best practices, enabling them to provide superior Urgent Care services. 

• Professional Development: Participants will experience growth in their professional performance and relationships, contributing to their career advancement and satisfaction. 

• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: The program will foster collaboration among Urgent Care clinicians, enhancing teamwork and integrated care approaches. 

Continuing Medical Education (CME) defined by the ACCME

Continuing medical education consists of educational activities which serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession.  

The content of CME is that body of knowledge and skills generally recognized and accepted by the profession as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision of health care to the public. 

Provided by ACCME.

CME Passport is a free, centralized web application that enables physicians to view, track, and generate transcripts of their reported CME credit.

• CME Passport displays any current or future activities that accredited providers choose to include.

• Physicians can quickly search by activity format, date, types of credit offered, topic, location, keyword, specialty, and other details.  

• Personalized accounts: Physicians can create a personalized account, enabling them to view their reported CME and MOC credits and generate transcripts for their state medical licensing board, employer, or credentialing body.

Visit CME Passport.

1. CME Activity Planning Process
2. To begin the planning process, fill out an Activity Planning Form. 
3. An Accreditation and Designation Statement of CME offered for the activity is issued.
4. The activity is then entered into the ACCME Pars System.
5. Issue a Call for Speakers/contributors or invite pre-determined speakers/contributors.
6. Create a task list for speakers/contributors.
7. Collect key stakeholder information for tracking purposes to ensure all documents are collected using the CME Contributor Tracking Form. Activity stakeholders include but are not limited to: planners, speakers, contributors, author, and committee members.
8. Collect financial relationship information from all persons involved in the planning and delivery of the CME activity, using the Disclosure Form.
9. Mitigate the financial relationship, if necessary, with this Mitigation Form. 
10. Collect content for the activity.
11. Content is peer reviewed, use this Peer Review Form.
12. Content is author attested to for complicance, use this Attestation Form.
13. Review promotional materials.
14. Notification to activity participants of speakers with disclosures. Note: Disclosures are only needed for those relationships that have financial relationships to disclose.
15. Execute the activity.
16. Collect learner feedback through the Claiming CME Form. Note: Activity will be added to appropriate forms.
17. Award CME certificate to learner, after validation of claim. 
18. Summarize learner feedback and address gaps identified for use in planning future activities.
19. Report activity and learner information to ACCME, using the ACCME Pars System.
20. Close the activity in the ACCME Pars System.
21. Complete Annual Reporting for ACCME in the ACCME Pars System.

Examples of communicating disclosures to learners.

Guidance for Planners to ensure clinical content is valid.

Key Steps to identify, mitigate, and disclose relevant financial relationships.

Sample Letter to explain why financial relationship information is collected.

Sample of Post Activity CME claiming survey.