The Department of Continuing Medical Education at Legacy Health seeks to provide high-quality, evidence-based educational opportunities that are designed to advance physician competence, enhance practice performance, and/or improve patient outcomes. Legacy CME is committed to promoting and facilitating physician life-long learning and continuing professional development (CPD).
Content areas
Content will be based on quality and patient safety initiatives, practical evidence, examples of best clinical practice and Maintenance of Certification guidelines directed to a broad variety of medical conditions and innovations in practice and/or procedures and specialty program certifications. The content of each activity will support one or more of the ACGME, ABMS, or IOM Professional competencies.
Target audience
Legacy CME activities will focus on the needs of Legacy affiliated physicians, and the interdisciplinary teams within which they practice. Additional identified learners include house staff and community physicians, as well as physicians in selected distant sites. In addition, we will jointly sponsor CME activities with non-profit organizations, and provider-based organizations such as physician organizations, rural hospitals and physician practices.
Types of activities provided
Legacy CME activities will be offered via live programs and electronic transmissions to medical facilities primarily throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington. Educational activities will include regularly scheduled series, single and multi-day conferences, enduring materials, case-based conferences, procedural skills training, and jointly sponsored programs.
Expected results
The expected result of Legacy CME educational activities is to enhance physician knowledge and clinical behavior for the purpose of improving healthcare outcomes. Changes in competency, performance or patient outcomes may be analyzed by a variety of tools. These tools will include, but not be limited to, reviewing participant evaluations, evaluating online surveys to identify self-reported knowledge and changes in practice, pre-post testing of knowledge and/or skills, using the audience rsponse system, and whenever possible, quality improvement outcome data that documents changes in practice and/or patient care outcomes.
Approved by the LH CME Committee 6/12