{"id":746,"date":"2009-12-04T12:24:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T17:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=746"},"modified":"2009-12-04T14:03:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T19:03:29","slug":"starting-a-cme-program-at-your-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Starting a CME Program at Your Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Joe Pozdol, USC Norris Medical Library<\/em><\/p>\n

At the November 20th MLGSCA Continuing Education program<\/a>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Exploiting Librarian Skills to Enhance Continuing Medical Education Programs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Dr. Jerrald Roberts from the University of Utah School of Medicine spoke about setting up a CME program for clinicians.\u00c2\u00a0 By allowing doctors to submit the searches they conduct, medical libraries can help physicians get 0.5 AMA category 1 credit per search.\u00c2\u00a0 Up to 20 of these credits can be counted toward a Physician\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Recognition Award.<\/p>\n

The Point of Care internet CME began in 2006 and, according to Dr. Roberts, is a form of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153structured, self-directed, online learning.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Dr. Roberts has created a CME template that meets necessary American Council for Continuing Medical Education criteria and is willing to share this form at no charge to interested medical libraries.\u00c2\u00a0 In order to get credit, physicians must complete the following steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Identify a clinical question based on a point of care patient need<\/li>\n
  2. Choose which databases to search from a list of hyperlinks (e.g. PubMed, National Guideline Clearinghouse, ACP Pier)<\/li>\n
  3. Cut and paste search URLs<\/li>\n
  4. Explain how the information learned will be applied<\/li>\n
  5. Submit the form for evaluation and print out a certificate upon receipt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Dr. Roberts emphasized that setting up a Point of Care Internet CME program is easy and requires little time.\u00c2\u00a0 The only software required is Adobe Acrobat, which is used to create the PDF form that will be automatically emailed to the CME office for evaluation.\u00c2\u00a0 Dr. Roberts recommended putting a link to the form on the library website and sending an email to physicians to advertise the service.<\/p>\n

    In the one year since Dr. Roberts established his Point of Care internet CME program, 19 doctors have participated a total of 55 times, and 8 individuals without MDs have participated a total of 18 times.\u00c2\u00a0 Dr. Roberts is happy to discuss his program with anyone interested and is willing to share all of his materials to facilitate implementation of this service.<\/p>\n

    For more information, visit the University of Utah\u00c2\u00a0 School of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education website<\/a> or contact Dr. Roberts at (801) 581-6886 or jerrald.roberts@hsc.utah.edu.<\/p>\n

    Posted 12\/4\/09<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    By Joe Pozdol, USC Norris Medical Library At the November 20th MLGSCA Continuing Education program, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Exploiting Librarian Skills to Enhance Continuing Medical Education Programs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Dr. Jerrald Roberts from the University of Utah School of Medicine spoke about setting up a CME program for clinicians.\u00c2\u00a0 By allowing doctors to submit the searches they conduct, medical libraries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}