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		<title>Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Floyd Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a very interesting story I found on NPR written by Emily Hanford. With so much CME built around the lecture one wonders what the physicians actually take away from the Continuing Medical Education (Instructional) experience. The story actually shows the power of the principles adult educators have heralded for years as a way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=convcme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=641151&amp;post=1682&amp;subd=convcme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Master of Education in Adult Education (M.Ed.) for Health Professionals: On-line</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Floyd Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Evidence-Based Program in Health Professions Education, in collaboration with the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, has developed an online master’s degree in adult education with an emphasis on health professions education. It brings together courses from the College of Public Health and the College of Education. This program is specifically designed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=convcme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=641151&amp;post=1669&amp;subd=convcme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revisit&#8230;&#8230;.Why Fund CME?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Floyd Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: I have published this blog before but had the urge to do it again when I heard this.  In a side conversation at the recent meeting of the National Task Force on CME/Provider/Industry Collaboration someone said that an employee in one of the grants offices in industry was told by the higher ups that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=convcme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=641151&amp;post=1650&amp;subd=convcme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hypocracy or Not? CME Funding and Higher Ed Policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Floyd Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this in Life Science Leader and   wondered how many industry professionals would share his opinion. &#8220;I recently read a story about industry support for continuing medical education (CME) dropping for the third consecutive year. To this I say, “Well it’s about time.” When I worked in the pharmaceutical industry, it never ceased [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=convcme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=641151&amp;post=1640&amp;subd=convcme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can I Improve What I Don’t Measure?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Floyd Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone once said, “If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.”

As a CME professional wanting to improve individual CME activities my organization offers and my overall program I have to have points of measurement of value to me, my learners, and my organization. Things I want to measure to see if we are improving and to show my learners and my organization that we are having a mission focused impact.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=convcme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=641151&amp;post=1632&amp;subd=convcme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do We Have a Problem with our Problem Solving Behaviors?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Floyd Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our drive to design CME activities that we hope will demonstrate impact or improvement on a professional practice gap we often jump to potential causes or even solutions before we fully understand the real nature of the gaps that give rise to presumed educational needs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=convcme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=641151&amp;post=1627&amp;subd=convcme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CME Shown To Produce Positive Clinical Outcomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 16:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Floyd Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRLog (Press Release) – May 25, 2011 Physicians who participated in live half-day, multi-format CME symposia were 50% more likely to provide evidence-based care for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than those who did not participate, according to a newly published study. The results reported go on to say: “In addition to being more likely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=convcme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=641151&amp;post=1617&amp;subd=convcme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Trends in Continuing Medical Education Among Obstetrician–Gynecologists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Floyd Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A abstract of arecent article in Obstetrics &#38; Gynecology (May 2011 &#8211; Volume 117 &#8211; Issue 5 &#8211; pp 1060-1064. Burwick, Richard M. MD, MPH; Schulkin, Jay PhD; Cooley, Sarah W.; Janakiraman, Vanitha MD; Norwitz, Errol R. MD, PhD; Robinson, Julian N. MD) reports on a study conducted “To estimate current trends in continuing medical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=convcme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=641151&amp;post=1602&amp;subd=convcme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Physian Performance and Quality &#8211; No Relationship?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Floyd Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Performance improvement” CME I found on a Blog called Trusted MD. It is syndicated by R. W. Donnell &#124; Mon, 04/18/2011 It is a response to a comment by Daniel Carlat a few days ago. about the emerging importance of PI CME. He says, “I knew we were moving in this direction but I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=convcme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=641151&amp;post=1591&amp;subd=convcme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why PI CME?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Floyd Pennington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PI CME is gaining traction but there are still few physicians taking advantage of this learning format. Some physicians still say they have no idea what PI CME is. Others say they are too busy to engage in this form of CME because takes too much time or it is too much trouble. So why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=convcme.wordpress.com&amp;blog=641151&amp;post=1579&amp;subd=convcme&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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