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Racing Toward Impact: How the Amazing Case Race Is Redefining CME for Early-career Clinicians
education

Designed to foster faculty development, gamify CME learning and increase global learner engagement, the "Amazing Case Race" (ACR) is reshaping the way early-career clinicians experience professional growth.

Racing Toward Impact: How the Amazing Case Race Is Redefining CME for Early-career Clinicians

By: Kelly Nevins-Kraines

AI-enhanced Simulation for Telehealth Communication Training
education
The widespread adoption of telehealth has underscored the necessity for healthcare providers to develop virtual patient interaction skills. To address this need, a training program utilizing AI-simulated patient encounters was developed, enabling...
AI-enhanced Simulation for Telehealth Communication Training

By: Boris Rozenfeld, MD; Ian Nott; and Wendy Whitmore

Integrating Patient Advocates Into Continuing Professional Development: Overcoming Barriers and Enhancing Impact
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...
Integrating Patient Advocates Into Continuing Professional Development: Overcoming Barriers and Enhancing Impact

By: Heather Ranels, CHCP, FACEHP

Small Teams, Big Outcomes: Efficient CME Approaches
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...
Small Teams, Big Outcomes: Efficient CME Approaches

By: Katie West, M.S.N., R.N.

Improving Patient Care for the LGBTQ+ Community Through Continuing Education
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...
Improving Patient Care for the LGBTQ+ Community Through Continuing Education

By: Rachel Every, RN, BSN; Chris Napolitan; and Tricia Wilson, MS, CHCP

From Introduction to Implementation: Building Trust and Empowering Clinicians to Use a Novel Point of Care Tool Through a Multi-year Initiative
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.

From Introduction to Implementation: Building Trust and Empowering Clinicians to Use a Novel Point of Care Tool Through a Multi-year Initiative

By: Elizabeth Johnson, MA; Nicolette Theriault, MPH; and Lobna Eldasher, PharmD

Promoting Equity in Clinical Trials: Resources That Could Make a Difference
education
Though it’s common knowledge that there is a lack of diversity in clinical trials, a glance at the actual statistics on the subject is still quite startling. A recent study published in THE LANCET Regional Health found that of 4.76 million...
Promoting Equity in Clinical Trials: Resources That Could Make a Difference

By: Tariqa Ackbarali, MS, PhD

Advancing the Patient's Role in CME/CE
education
Healthcare providers are accustomed to hearing patient case studies in their continuing medical education/continuing education (CME/CE) programs but they rarely hear from actual patients. That is changing as accreditation organizations are...
Advancing the Patient's Role in CME/CE

By: Dr. Tariqa Ackbarali and Dave Clausen, CHCP

2019 Felch Award for Outstanding Research in Continuing Education: A System-Level Quality Improvement Initiative in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
education
  In order to support healthcare professionals in achieving national goals of quality-driven and value-based healthcare, the U.S. gastroenterology community has developed, implemented and assessed national quality measures for the...
2019 Felch Award for Outstanding Research in Continuing Education: A System-Level Quality Improvement Initiative in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

By: Kathleen Moreo, RN, BC, BSN, BHSA, CCM, CDMS

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By: Bharati Hegde, PhD; and Katie Robinson, PhD

Designing CPD for the Real-world Context of Learning and Application: Considering Behavioral Drivers Within Our Education Design
education
Designing CPD for the Real-world Context of Learning and Application: Considering Behavioral Drivers Within Our Education Design

By: Caroline O. Pardo, PhD, CHCP, FACEHP

Designing for What Matters: How Long-term Patient Advocacy Partnerships Power Patient-centered Continuing Education
education
Designing for What Matters: How Long-term Patient Advocacy Partnerships Power Patient-centered Continuing Education

By: Carole Drexel, PhD; Maria Arnone, MS; Nicolette Theriault, MPH; Nancy Paynter, MBA

Crafting Quality Continuing Education CE Activities With Blueprint-based Application
education
Crafting Quality Continuing Education CE Activities With Blueprint-based Application

By: Kelly Carlson Eberbach DNP, MBA, RN, CPN, CPEN

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