The Dell Medical School Continuing Medical Education program, or CME, strengthens the learning community by promoting patient safety, quality improvement and high value care through accredited continuing education. The program delivers comprehensive, objective, evidence-based learning experiences that advance participants’ knowledge, competence and performance. The program mission is to foster physicians’ professional growth, advance scientific discovery, encourage innovation and endorse the practice of lifelong learning.
The program considers accreditation for activities that are designed to minimize professional practice gaps and enhance knowledge, competence and clinical performance for learners across a spectrum of medical specialties. Though the program’s target audience consists primarily of physicians and physician-trainees, participation from other health professionals is welcomed. All accredited activities will be developed independently and remain free of influence from ineligible companies. Learning activities include regularly scheduled series such as grand rounds, tumor boards, morbidity and mortality conferences, journal clubs, longitudinal courses, annual conferences, and asynchronous instruction, including learning modules and video‐recorded lectures. A variety of formats are considered if appropriate for the setting, educational objectives and desired results of the activity. Formats may vary from live, in‐person, live internet or online instruction, and enduring material.
Accredited CME activities are designed and intended to produce results that enhance participants’ knowledge and competence or performance as generally recognized and accepted as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision of health care. Participants in accredited activities attain appropriate knowledge and skills to enhance services provided to patients, the general public, and the medical professions. Activities are evaluated via assessments administered to participants following each activity. Assessment reports are analyzed to determine the degree of impact on participants’ knowledge, competence and future practice.
Details
Eligibility
CME activities are open to physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other interprofessional providers who practice primary, specialty and subspecialty care.
Formats
Dell Med hosts live, interactive lecture-based instruction, case-based discussion, hands-on training sessions and small-group workshops. The CME program includes regularly scheduled series and large conferences covering a broad range of topics in all medical specialties. In addition, Dell Med accredits activities for Maintenance of Certification and provides asynchronous enduring materials.
The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). The Office of Continuing Medical Education only produces independent activities which are free from commercial support. They are implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).