Welcome to AOE’s June 2024 edition of AOE Compliance Connection, our monthly newsletter. This month, we bring you a recap from AOE’s experience at Learn to Thrive 2024, a whole host of new resources available from the ACCME, and a helpful summary of (and link to!) a new guide on using social media in CME from the Alliance Almanac.
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Learn to Thrive 2024 AOE Experience
Last month, the ACCME hosted its annual meeting in Chicago, Learn to Thrive 2024. AOE representatives attended and enjoyed the time with community leaders, industry experts, and colleagues dedicated to the craft of CME. The keynotes included “Creative Frontiers in CE: The AI Revolution” by Dominic Slauson (Day 1), “Together We Thrive! Working Group Resource Showcase” by the 2023 Working Groups leadership team (Day 2), and “Music for Health, Music for Life” by Joy Allen, PhD, MT-BS (Day 3).
Of the many topics covered at the three-day conference, AOE’s most exciting takeaways were after the keynote presentation on day 1 about the potential of AI in CME. Slauson introduced a continuum of AI use that ranged from copy editing (low usage) to composition itself (high usage). The multimodality of AI means that it can generate not only text, but also images, voices, and videos. Far from taking the place of the experts, appropriately used AI can empower the experts in many areas (including topic exploration, case studies, content reviews, relevant feedback, and more). He offered tips, demonstrations, and space for table conversations among attendees.
Since the conference, AOE has developed an OnCourse internal training to explore ways that AI could assist not only our team, but also our providers’ teams in the day-to-day processes. Various expressions of AI are being explored to assist in the review/critique of deliverables such as websites, trainings, registration, presentations, and signage.
Don’t hesitate to join in the conversation with us – reach out with any questions about how you and your team might use AI in future projects: info@aoeconsulting.com.
Resources Available!
In the wake of Learn to Thrive 2024, the ACCME has made some new resources available to providers. Below, we highlight a few of them and point you to more information and full resource access!
Working Groups
Last month, the ACCME unveiled four resources created over the past year by the 2023 Working Groups, specifically to share with the CE colleagues. They consist of practical tools that range in topic from opioid disorder to creative ways to launch fun CE initiatives.
Access each resource through the below links:
- CE Planning Guide for Addressing Opioid and Substance Use Disorder Stigma
- The Patient Partner Roadmap: Fostering Meaningful Partnerships in Continuing Education
- Innovation Toolkit: Piecing Together Novel CE Planning Approaches
- Funding Playbook: Bringing Financial Innovation & Creativity to Continuing Education
The next round of Working Groups has begun, and the kickoff webinar Monday, June 17 at 11:00 am CST was open to any interested provider, regardless of whether or not they attended Learn to Thrive 2024.
- Fostering Greater Engagement in CE Research
- Professional Development and Professional Identity Formation for the CE Educator
- Providing CE Credit for All Physicians
Accredited CME Delivers
On the first day of Learn to Thrive 2024, ACCME President and CEO, Graham McMahon, announced a new resource for any accredited CME provider: #AccreditedCMEDelivers. It is a portal to helpful tools that empower providers “to communicate the value of their work to organizational key decision-makers”. The tools include techniques on beginning a conversation within an organization, beginning a social media campaign, and others.
Access the full resource here.
CE Community: Social Media in CME
Recently, the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) published an article in their online Almanac that addresses social media in medical education.
The article, “Social Media in Medical Education: From Program Awareness to Outcomes”, seeks to continue the dialogue begun in multiple CME gathering spaces and aims to help readers/providers choose the most appropriate social media platform for their educational goals.
The authors outline their intent early on: “While we continue to discover new ways social media can enhance our overall impact, we must consciously choose the appropriate platform depending on what we are hoping to achieve via social media as our medium. In addition, we need to brainstorm how best to share the results of our social media campaigns in our outcomes reporting, which very often will not fall neatly within the Moore’s Framework.”
The bulk of the article addresses the variety of available social media platforms (Facebook/Meta, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, and Blogging), and when each may be most appropriate for CME initiatives.
Additionally, the article touches on the importance of sharing social media’s educational impact, even though the concepts are still relatively new to the industry. There is a high value on the community conversation surrounding the creation and use of various metrics, including both generation metrics and attitudinal metrics.
Read the article in it’s entirety here.
Upcoming Events
- SACME’s PRiME (Promoting Research in Medical Education) Meeting
June 18-24, 2024, Toronto, Canada
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July 29-30, Chicago, IL
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July 31 – August 2, 2024, Savannah, GA
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August 6-7, 2024, Chicago, IL
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August 16, 2024, Denver, CO
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August 26-28, 2024, Chicago, IL
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