Seamless MOC Part 2 Integration: Add Value Not Work

By:Rebecca Kolb, MA, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Andrea Thrasher, MEd, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; and Laura Werts, MS, MEd CMP, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

In 2016, the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) announced its collaboration with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to increase both the types of activities that can offer lifelong learning and self-assessment (Part 2) of Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and to expand the types of associated assessment mechanisms. At the 2017 Alliance for Continuing Education in Health Professions Annual Conference, ACCME President Graham McMahon challenged providers to offer as many MOC Part 2 accredited activities as possible. Around the same time, the ABP published the CME Provider Program Manual outlining the new self-assessment mechanisms. A once narrow opportunity was now wide open for creative educational design.

Getting Out of the Comfort Zone: Breaking the Silo Mentality to Address Real-World Needs

By: Kathleen Moreo, RN-BC, BSN, BHSA, CCM, CDMS, President and CEO, PRIME® Education, LLC

Continuing education often results in the largest measureable changes when it addresses an ongoing public health crisis at the local level. Tailoring content to meet specific needs and developing strategies to overcome situation-specific treatment barriers are among the most difficult, and yet the most rewarding, challenges for CE providers and supporters to undertake. Identifying, engaging and coordinating multiple stakeholders in effective program design, project implementation, and results-oriented evaluation is complicated and involves many moving parts.

Welcome from New Editor-in-Chief Kurt Snyder

This is my first letter to readers as the editor-in-chief of the Almanac! I am excited about this opportunity and honored to be entrusted with such an awesome responsibility. The Almanac has a proud history of serving the members of the Alliance, and it is important to note that I will stand on the shoulders of all the editors and writers who came before for me.