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- LearnersThe University of South Alabama Office of Continuing Medical Education offers a variety of educational opportunities for all healthcare professionals. Please review our schedule list to the right of this screen for dates and locations. Conference Schedule Grand Rounds Schedule Life Meetings – Live continuing medical education meetings focusing on several specialities including a variety specialities. Performance Improvement Initiatives – Through performance improvement programs and practice circles on a variety of topics, healthcare practitioners will learn to improve their practice systems and patient care. Online Programs – Video presentations and CD-ROM are among the enduring material CME programs accredited by and available from USA OCME. Tests and evaluations can be taken online. Journal-Based CME - Journal-based CME allows you to study and work at your own pace and earn many of your required CME credits.
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USA Continuing Medical Education seeks to educate physicians in this region.
Our goal is to improve patient outcomes through physician education.
Our Why?
Locations to view Grand Rounds
(Medicine, Surgery, and Neurology)
D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital (Brewton, Al)
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Infirmary West
Mobile Infirmary Medical Center
North Baldwin Infirmary COMING SOON
Thomas Hospital
USA’s Office of CME completes a comprehensive needs assessment and gap analysis.
- Review of the literature
- Medical advisory board assessments, comments, surveys, and recommendations
- Press reports
- Surveys of hospital staff
- Surveys of specialty audiences
- Participant data including personal practice profiles and comments
- Government disease state databases
- Round table discussions with hospital and clinic staff
Article of Interest:
Physician Payment Sunshine Act: CMS Proposed Rule – Impact on Continuing Medical Education, Medical Societies and Patient Organizations
What constitutes PI CME?
Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education
PI CME intiatives follow the AMA-standardized three-stage process.
- Stage A Assess – Assess your current practice against current evidence, expert consensus, and peers’ practice
- Stage B Apply – Develop and follow your own improvement plan
- Stage C Evaluate – Reassess your practice to measure the effects of your improvement plan
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The Continuing Medical Education (CME) program with the University of South Alabama is committed to protect the privacy of its learners. USA Office of CME maintains its internet site as an information resource and service for physicians and other health professionals. The CME program with The University of South Alabama will keep learners personal and credit information confidential when they participate in any CME program whether live in person or on the internet. Participants’ information will not be given to anyone outside of USA’s CME program. CME collects only the information necessary to provide learners with the services they request.