Ongoing CME learning opportunities to strengthen your profession.
Dignity Health East Valley offers Continuing Medical Education (CME) that provides ongoing education to optimize patient care with an approach that upholds and embraces our core value of humankindness.
CME consists of educational activities which serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession. The content of CME is that body of knowledge and skills generally recognized and accepted by the profession as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision of health care to the public.
Our continuing education mission is to optimize patient care. To this end, our programs are designed to provide the most up to date information and strategies for physicians and allied health professionals. Dignity Health's East Valley CME program is accredited by the Arizona Medical Association to provide ongoing education for physicians. We follow accreditation standards and criteria of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to offer AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Our commitment to Continuing Medical Education
Our Office of CME strives to ensure that the learning experiences we sponsor fulfill the following five objectives:
Provide the springboard to lifelong learning
Strengthen clinical knowledge, competence, and skill
Address topics and educational needs that are current, progressive, and relevant
Share evidence-based knowledge
Lack any commercial bias
DH-EV CME activity topics are generated in a variety of ways, including:
- Physician planning sessions and requests
- Quality measure monitoring and improvement efforts
- Hospital administration identification of CME opportunities
CME Activities
DH-EV CME activities include department-specific and interdisciplinary meetings and projects. Meeting formats include regularly scheduled series (RSS), conferences, symposia, lectures and workshops. Projects include Performance Improvement (PI-CME), interdisciplinary efforts to improve established quality measures (QI), and physician specialty Maintenance of Certification (MOC). Currently, all credited activities are live events. Creation of Enduring Materials for CME credit may be pursued in the future. Ongoing education offerings include:
Activity Planning Process
- Application for Accreditation
- Disclosure Form
- Exhibitor Agreement
- Presenter Guidelines
- Pull your transcripts here
- ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence
The Office of CME must be involved in the planning prior to the start of the activity. Please submit your application at least two months prior to your activity beginning.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Live: one time activity
Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS): Ongoing series offered weekly, monthly or quarterly
Performance/Quality Improvement: Structured three stage process by which a physician or group of physicians learn about specific performance measures, access their practice using specific performance measures, implement interventions to improve performance related to these measures over a useful interval of time.
Committee Learning: if taught/learned in another format, would be considered within the definition of continuing education.
Complete a CME Application the Office of CME must be involved in the planning prior to the start of the activity. Please submit your application at least two months prior to your activity beginning.
No, our accreditation is for East Valley activities only.
All learners will have a transcripts available to submit to their accrediting organization. AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ is the most commonly accepted form of credit.
Expected Results
DH-EV CME activities are expected to enhance the quality of patient care by improving physician competence, performance or patient outcomes in measurable ways. Measurement methods include:
- Evaluation surveys completed after an activity
- Follow-up surveys to assess whether change has occurred
- Paper or on-line surveys of the impact of the activity
- Pre- and post-activity content quizzes
- Ongoing monitoring of established quality measures
- Measurement of specific competence, performance or patient outcomes related to specific activities