education
Patient advocacy is central to modern healthcare, ensuring patient voices shape care decisions. In CPD, integrating patient advocates enhances education, improves provider communication and optimizes care outcomes. Despite these benefits, they...
By: Heather Ranels, CHCP, FACEHP
outcomes
According to the most recent Accrediting Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Data Report, “Thriving Through Growth and Innovation — 2023”, of the 247,019 total activities accredited in 2023, only 328 (0.13%) were...
By: Sharon Nichols, BSN, RN, CPHRM; Kasha Askew, MSM; Sarah Porter, CHCP
outcomes
In collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the SBA, the AAP designed and implemented a quality improvement learning collaborative on transition in SB care. After two successful cohorts of the learning...
By: Nkemdilim Chineme, MPH; Lisa Brock, LCSW; Kendall Arslanian, PhD; Jamie Jones, MPH; Nataliya Shtym, MPH; Dzeneta Dujkovic, MPH; and Kerri Leo, MATD, CAE, CHCP
education
Small continuing education for the health professions (CEHP) teams are not uncommon. In fact, in 2020, the Alliance Research Committee published the results of their survey of Alliance members regarding the most significant barriers they face in...
By: Katie West, M.S.N., R.N.
education
Around 7% of people in the U.S. identify as LGBTQ+1, with over 1 million same-sex couples2 and 1.6 million transgender people.3 A 2021 survey indicated that Gen Z — people born between 1997 and 2004 — are mostly likely to identify as...
By: Rachel Every, RN, BSN; Chris Napolitan; and Tricia Wilson, MS, CHCP
leadership
How do clinicians know if they are treating patients too much, too little or just right? As continuing professional education (CPE) professionals, we focus on providing access to education that helps clinicians balance evidence-based science with...
By: Alana Brody, MBA, CHCP; and Susan Miller, Ph.D.
leadership
Medical writers are vital partners in creating high-quality, evidence-based content for continuing medical education/continuing professional development (CME/CPD) activities and programs. Writers who specialize in CME/CPD often have a clinical,...
By: Alexandra Howson, PhD, CHCP
outcomes
In 2019, an emerging therapy showing promising results in breast cancers with low levels of HER2 began to emerge, indicating significant changes would need to be made in the testing, reporting and tracking of a patient’s HER2 status.
By: Melissa Kelly, PhD; Joseph Kim, MD, MPH, MBA; and Kellie Beumer, MBA
education
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), is a chronic and recurrent inflammatory disease of the intestinal tract that currently affects as many as three million Americans.
By: Elizabeth Johnson, MA; Nicolette Theriault, MPH; and Lobna Eldasher, PharmD