AOE Alliance Highlights
Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP)
2019 Annual Conference
January 23-26, 2019, National Harbor, MD
“Make It Stick!” was the theme of the 2019 ACEHP Annual Conference, reflecting a conference-wide focus on proactive behavior change, on “healthcare” in favor of “sickcare”, and on quality as a daily practice.
Here are a few highlights from Alliance 2019:
Getting Ahead of Technology
- Changing Landscape: Technological changes are ever present and impact healthcare
immensely. - Beat the “forgetting curve” by implementing different mechanisms of learning:
didactic, demonstration, practice, feedback, repetition, etc. - Allow learners to practice high risk procedures in low stress environments.
Collaborative Mindsets
- Account for cultural differences in any collaboration; research the system and clarify
roles. - Transform your “faculty” into “facilitators” – help guide learners to an understanding
instead of talking at them. - Shared decision making is a key part of patient-centered care but can be difficult to
measure; break it down into smaller components.
Education as Our Profession
- Pursuit of the CHCP credentials: This is a stepping stone to career advancement!
- “Make It Stick” – How can education be leveraged for behavior change?
- Incorporate patients into education planning: Everyone has a story to tell! Allow
patients to focus on the emotion of the disease. - Learning style matters: Learners have preferred styles, but all learners learn in all the
modalities (auditory, visual and kinesthetic). - Learners remember 10% of what is seen, 20% of what is read, 80% of what they do.
- Outcomes: Asking questions several weeks later improves learner retention.
- When designing an assessment, do not try to trick your learners with question format.
ACCME Update
The ACCME communicated the following areas of update:
- ACCME’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021, MOC Collaborations, State Medical Board
Collaborations (TN and NC), Key Areas of Non-Compliance (SCS 1, 2, 6), ACCME’s Call
for Feedback about Protecting the Integrity and Independence of Accredited
Continuing Education
