Best Practices

In the AAMC's ongoing effort to promote new and unique continuing education activities, we have located and highlighted such activities from programs across the U.S. and Canada. Continually updated, this page provides information on programs that can serve as model activities for other CME providers.

University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine:

• Remedial Programs for referred and self-referred physicians
  These programs are offered to physicians who identify a need within their practice to develop new skills are augment existing skills, and to physicians who have taken part in either a peer-review program or a licensing assessment which has identified areas of deficit.

• Inter- and multi-professional conferences with Departments of Continuing Nursing, Pharmacy and Physiotherapy Education
  These programs are designed to assist all health care professionals to learn with, from and about each other, and focus on health care areas of importance to physicians where effective use of all human resources will improve health care outcomes and streamline patient care. For more information, contact: penny.davis@usask.ca

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
MedPageToday
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Duke University School of Medicine
Managing Adolescent Depression in Primary Care
Assessing the Risks: A Web video to serve as a pilot, or seed, for an entire series of not only child psychiatry topics, but also other pediatric subspecialty CME topics aimed at primary care practitioners.

University of California Davis School of Medicine
Adverse Event Reporting
SB1301 and Leapfrog: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds

University of Kentucky College of Medicine
The Kentucky Ambulatory Network (KAN)
A primary care practice-based research network (PBRN) devoted to producing knowledge useful to primary care physicians and their patients. KAN is a collaborative effort involving primary care physicians, the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville, and the Kentucky Academy of Family Physicians.

Tufts University School of Medicine
Information Mastery: A Practical Approach to Evidence-Based Medicine
This highly interactive course presents practical and user-friendly methods for finding, evaluating and applying the best evidence when caring for patients. The course comprises a two-day Introduction to Information Mastery, to help learners acquire the core concepts and skills of information mastery, and a one-day Advanced Skills Course for Teachers, to provide health professional faculty with instruction and practice in teaching information mastery.

Yale University School of Medicine:

• The Diabetes Newsletter
  Now in its ninth year, the Diabetes 2009 program consists of newsletters and tests presented in a monograph twice each year.

• The Therapeutic ERCP/EUS Workshop
  A live demonstration of Therapeutic ERCP/EUS

Oregon Health & Science School of Medicine
OHSU Physician Re-Entry Program
Physicians decide to leave clinical care for many reasons. Sometimes, they regret the decision and wish to return to patient care. In Oregon, they can now turn to the new OHSU Physician Re-entry Program which gives physicians the opportunity to refresh and update their knowledge, and then to become active again in patient care. The program is an innovative, low-cost way to help address physician workforce shortages.