Continuing Medical Education
Keeping in view the growing need of CME in physicians and healthcare professionals, established under the umbrella of SCOPE, the Continuing Medical Education department was envisioned to create healthcare teams for change through CME.
To work with organizations vested in a team approach with physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other allied healthcare professionals to facilitate improvements in patient outcomes.
We believe in the idea that we all learn from each other and the more we work together the greater the chance for improvement in skills, strategies and outcomes.
Mission:
To maintain, develop and enhance the knowledge, skills, competence and professional performance by providing the needs-based education for physicians and health care providers which enables the optimum provision of health care and improve the patient outcomes.
To achieve our mission, we are committed to strengthen learners’ knowledge, competence, and performance.
Vision:
To improve patient care by fostering lifelong learning for inter-disciplinary and inter-professional healthcare team by promoting quality improvement in clinical knowledge, skills, and techniques
Objectives:
- To design activities that close professional practice gaps
- To improve patient outcomes
- To create and engage learners in the state-of-the-art content
- To collect and analyze learner data to measure the impact of what we offer
- To maintain selective criteria in choosing our educational partners.
- To uphold a strict firewall between commercial support and content
Why CME?
Continuing Medical Education (CME) is ongoing until the end of a physician’s working life. It is concerned with the maintenance, improvement, and promotion of the health care which physicians provide for people.
The medical field is constantly changing and evolving with new technologies, practices, and innovations. Therefore, Our CME programs provide opportunities for physicians and allied health care professionals to improve their practice via evidence-based educational activities that focus on advances in medicine, medical technology and biomedical research as well as changes in the health care environment.
We also provide a structured forum for CME course planners and presenters. They can demonstrate their expertise and their commitment to advancing standards of care, and share ideas for maximizing programs’ success.
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Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS):
Regularly scheduled series is a live activity planned as a series with multiple, ongoing sessions, e.g., offered weekly, monthly, or quarterly. A regularly scheduled series is primarily planned by and presented to the accredited organization’s professional staff and generally targets the same audience over the whole series. Examples include grand rounds, tumor boards, and morbidity and mortality conferences. – ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education).
- Grand Round:
Formal meeting, where physicians discuss interesting medical cases. The presenter is the most junior member of the medical team whereas the facilitator is the departmental head – THE BMJ.
Categories:
Grand Rounds are divided into following two major categories:
- Medicine & Allied – Grand Rounds is a monthly topic- and case-based presentation by medicine and allied departments. Learning objective is to provide a forum for discussion of topics that strengthen the relationship of Medicine to the broader community.
- Surgery & Allied – Grand Rounds is a monthly topic- and case-based presentation by surgery and allied departments. Learning objective is to provide a forum for discussion of topics that strengthen the relationship of Surgery to the broader community.
- Tumor Boards:
A treatment planning approach in which a number of doctors who are experts in different specialties (disciplines) review and discuss the medical condition and treatment options of a patient. – National Cancer Institute (NCI).
- Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) Conferences:
A forum for faculty and trainees to explore the management details of particular cases wherein morbidity or mortality occurred – National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
Mega Events:
A course that is planned for once and allows other institutes/hospital’s health professionals to participate. Examples are Conference, Masterclass, Course, Seminar.
During the planning and implementation of CME activities all decisions are made free of the control of a commercial interest. This includes:
- Planning Stage
- Execution of the event
- Post Event Evaluation
- Conference:
A formal meeting of participants with a shared interest, typically one that takes place over several days, where researchers present results.
- Masterclass:
A platform where full day experts deliver talks on the specific topic to doctors and general physicians.
- Course:
A plan of study on a particular subject, usually leading to post-test towards completion.
- Seminar:
Series of talks on the specific topic, to enhance the body of knowledge.
Enduring Materials:
An enduring material is a printed, recorded, or computer-presented activity that endures over a specified time and does not have a specific time or location designated for participation; rather, the participant determines whether and when to complete the activity. – ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education).
Internet Activity (Enduring Material):
An internet enduring material is an online enduring activity that can be accessed whenever the learner chooses to complete it. The content can be accessed at any point during the lifespan of the activity and there is no specific time designated for participation. Examples include online interactive educational modules, recorded presentations, podcasts. – ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education).
Validation of Content:
SCOPE believes in the state-of-the-art content which is being reviewed and re-released regularly by our independent reviewers.
Live CME:
An internet live course is an online course available at a certain time on a certain date and is only available in real-time, just as if it were a course held in an auditorium. Once the event has taken place, learners may no longer participate in that activity. Examples include a livestream, webcast, or webinar. – ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education).
In response to COVID – 19 pandemics, all activities of CME are shifted to LIVE.
Benefits of watching a LIVE CME activity?
- No travel expenses.
- Efficient use of your time.
- No need to take off from work – just schedule your hours around the LIVE CME activity.
- Counts as LIVE CME
Forms:
Pre-activity form for initiating an activity:
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/c18735585a4840e78b08663324f677de
Clinical content review and validation form:
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/09e382424f6a4f00a04942ff2ad6a6df
Conflict of interest (COI) – Disclosure form:
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/eb64ec640e074b509b32b0b661e28f28
Reflection on improvement survey – Participants:
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/538a38ea982a4993909c1615b75dd8d4
Reflection on improvement survey – Speaker/Faculty:
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9719286fd94341c4b94e3fb93a16946d
Feedback Form – Speaker/Faculty:
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/4fc801236a7b4601a4e6959d195e8a7c
Feedback Form – Participants:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2-1RRWp4ozVxvvT24fuGLIkZDe46Snh4odklgD7Pj_qnv4Q/viewform
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https://scope.shifafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/6.2-Finance-Guidelines.pdf
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Disclosure to the Audience Guidelines
Clinical Content Validity Guidelines