Seven Days Remaining in CME TweetFest, Highlighting Clinical Education Outcomes Articles!

Check out this month’s service project featuring #Meded QI, PI, and #CME outcomes articles at blog http://fullcirclece.blogspot.com/. Only 7 days remain for $100 prize contest for retweeting at https://twitter.com/SHB_CMEedit. Blog comments earn prize entries too! This campaign is led by Donald Harting and yours truly, at #CMEtf, from August 17 - September 17, 2015. Don’t miss Don’s video introduction to the series at https://www.youtube.com/embed/VlVY4KlkdmA (but I have to insist that he deserves at least as much credit for starting the campaign as he gives me)!

I wanted to mention some colleagues who have authored the featured articles or been mentioned in Don Harting's or my blogs thus far: Ed Dellert, William Mencia, Derek Dietze, Erik Brady, Alexandra Howson, Jason Olivieri, Wendy Turell, Sara Miller, Allison Gardner, and Kathleen Moreo. Support publication of Medical Education outcomes reports!

Featured articles so far:

• Bekanich SJ, Wanner N, Junkins S, et al. A multifaceted initiative to improve clinician awareness of pain management disparities. Am J Med Qual. 2014;29(5):388-96.
• Peterson ED, Heidarian S, Effinger S, et al. Outcomes of an interprofessional team learning and improvement project aimed at reducing postsurgical delirium in elderly patients admitted with hip fracture. CE Measure. 2014;8(1):3-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1532/cemeasure.v8i1.134.
• Adams SG, Pitts J, Wynne J, Yawn BP, Diamond EJ, Lee S, Dellert E, Hanania NA. Effect of a primary care continuing education program on clinical practice of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: translating theory into practice. Mayo Clin Proc. 2012 Sep;87(9):862-70.
• Stevens L-M, Cooper JB, Raemer DB, et al. Educational program in crisis management for cardiac surgery teams including high realism simulation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012;144(1):17-24.
• Dobesh PP, Stacy ZA. Effect of a clinical pharmacy education program on improvement in the quantity and quality of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for medically ill patients. J Manag Care Pharm. 2005;11(9):755-62.
• Raffini L, Trimarchi T, Beliveau J, Davis D. Thromboprophylaxis in a pediatric hospital: a patient-safety and quality-improvement initiative. Pediatrics. 2011 May;127(5):e1326-32.
• Lapolla J, Morrice A, Quinn S, et al. Diabetes management in the hospital setting: a performance improvement continuing medical education program. CE Meas. 2013;7(1):54-60. doi:10.1532/CEM08.12103. http://www.cardenjenningspublishing.com/journal/index.php/cem/article/view/116.

Our coverage of these articles goes deeper in this blog and in Don Harting’s at http://dvmw.blogspot.com/2015/08/rt-to-win-100-your-fun-guide-to-cme.html. 

Why is there a contest? Because the more clinical education professionals see this series, the more we can prove that CME matters! So RT for a chance to win up to $100! CME outcomes contest rules at http://cmetweetfest.blogspot.com/. Please make sure you follow Don or me on Twitter so that we can notify you of any Tweet Fest winnings!

Thanks for your many retweets thus far, and please tell your colleagues about the service campaign to feature CME outcomes successes. I look forward to hearing from you at shbinford@fullcircleclinicaleducation.com. At the end of the service campaign, we will be preparing a report of featured articles, which you can sign up to receive from me at the Alliance Quality Symposium in Chicago or via electronic mail.

Now start Tweeting and let’s have some fun promoting the challenging work that goes into measuring health education outcomes!

Best,
Sandra