Criteria Rationale Critical Elements Addresses Public Health Priorities The provider addresses This criterion recognizes providers Teaches strategies that learners can C27 factors beyond clinical care for expanding their CME programs use to achieve improvements in that affect the health of beyond clinical care education to population health populations. address factors affecting the health of populations. Some examples of these factors include health behaviors; economic, social, and environmental conditions; healthcare and payer systems; access to care; health disparities; or the population’s physical environment. The provider collaborates Collaboration among people and Creates or continues collaborations C28 with other organizations to organizations builds stronger, with one or more healthcare or more effectively address more empowered systems. This community organization(s) population health issues. criterion recognizes providers that AND apply this principle by building Demonstrates that the collaborations with other collaborations augment the organizations that enhance the provider’s ability to address effectiveness of the CME program population health issues in addressing community/population health issues. Criteria Rationale Critical Elements Enhances Skills The provider designs CME Technical and procedural skills are Provides CME addressing technical C30 to optimize technical and essential to many aspects of and or/procedural skills procedural skills of learners. professional practice, and need to AND be learned, updated, reinforced, Includes an evaluation of observed and reassessed. Some examples of (e.g., in person or video) technical these skills are operative skill, or procedural skill device use, procedures, physical AND examination, specimen Provides formative feedback to the preparation, resuscitation, and learner about technical or critical incident management. This procedural skill criterion recognizes providers that offer CME to help learners gain, retain, or improve technical and/or procedural skills. The provider utilizes This criterion recognizes providers Utilizes support strategies to C32 support strategies to that create, customize, or make enhance change as an adjunct to enhance change as an available supplemental services CME activities adjunct to its CME. (e.g., reminders) and/or resources AND (e.g., online instructional material, Conducts a periodic analysis to apps) that are designed to determine the effectiveness of the reinforce or sustain change. support strategies, and improvements
Criteria Rationale Critical Elements Addresses Public Health Priorities C27 The provider addresses factors beyond clinical care that affect the health of populations. This criterion recognizes providers for expanding their CME programs beyond clinical care education to address factors affecting the health of populations. Some examples of these factors include health behaviors; economic, social, and environmental conditions; healthcare and payer systems; access to care; health disparities; or the population’s physical environment. Teaches strategies that learners can use to achieve improvements in population health C28 The provider collaborates with other organizations to more effectively address population health issues. Collaboration among people and organizations builds stronger, more empowered systems. This criterion recognizes providers that apply this principle by building collaborations with other organizations that enhance the effectiveness of the CME program in addressing community/population health issues. Creates or continues collaborations with one or more healthcare or community organization(s) AND Demonstrates that the collaborations augment the provider’s ability to address population health issues Criteria Rationale Critical Elements Enhances Skills C30 The provider designs CME to optimize technical and procedural skills of learners. Technical and procedural skills are essential to many aspects of professional practice, and need to be learned, updated, reinforced, and reassessed. Some examples of these skills are operative skill, device use, procedures, physical examination, specimen preparation, resuscitation, and critical incident management. This criterion recognizes providers that offer CME to help learners gain, retain, or improve technical and/or procedural skills. Provides CME addressing technical and or/procedural skills AND Includes an evaluation of observed (e.g., in person or video) technical or procedural skill AND Provides formative feedback to the learner about technical or procedural skill C32 The provider utilizes support strategies to enhance change as an adjunct to its CME. This criterion recognizes providers that create, customize, or make available supplemental services (e.g., reminders) and/or resources (e.g., online instructional material, apps) that are designed to reinforce or sustain change. Utilizes support strategies to enhance change as an adjunct to CME activities AND Conducts a periodic analysis to determine the effectiveness of the support strategies, and improvements
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