Your next CME lecture could be audited:
In a recent conversation with the Health Blog, Kopelow said ACCME will likely start sending auditors to CME lectures. “We could have trained monitors observing CME presentations and reporting their findings to us,” to see whether the presentations are straying from the rules, he said. The group hasn’t yet decided whether the monitors would work undercover.
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Who cares?
Everyone knows the CME lecture is usually a boondoggle. Who’s listening, with all that food?
How many times have you left your family at the beach and eagerly returned to the classroom?
CME has been largely discounted as an educational instrument or as a serious a method of keeping up-to-date. Believing otherwise is an admission to being out-of-date.
The ACCME would do better preserving the financial value of the accreditation in a more cost-effective manner. If the ACCME does not get positively Machiavellian, they have no reason to exist. This kind of activity suggests to me an organization in its death throes, or heading rowards an untimely end.
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