Physicians are devoted to improving health care quality and patient safety on a daily basis. Experts at the AMA have curated a CME track that helps time-squeezed doctors burnish their learning in these areas.
Doctors can earn up to 3.25 CME credits while exploring how to learn from error through responding to—and reporting—adverse events, conducting root-cause analyses, and performing plan-do-study-act cycles to test and enact change to help enhance patient outcomes. And AMA members get an exclusive CME certificate upon completion.
Explore the “Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) CME Track” now.
The course is part of the AMA Ed Hub™, an online learning platform that brings together high-quality CME, maintenance of certification, and educational content from trusted sources, all in one place—with activities relevant to you, automated credit tracking, and reporting for some states and specialty boards.
Learn more about AMA CME accreditation.
With the course, physicians can
- Earn CME with curated, engaging microlessons to help meet state CME and licensure requirements.
- Learn at their own pace, exploring essential QIPS education to drive quality improvement in health care and help reduce patient harm.
- Turn adverse events into opportunities for systematic change with microlessons on medical error-reporting, root-cause analysis and quality-improvement implementation.
Learning from error
The CME track is composed of two sections, one of which covers learning from error and draws from modules that are part of the AMA Professional Development CME Series.
One module, for example, details adverse-event reporting in clinical practice. With that module, physicians can learn to identify or recognize:
- What constitutes an adverse event or a near miss.
- Their individual responsibility in reporting an adverse event or near miss.
- The recommended actions involved in responding to an adverse event or near miss.
Applying QIPS in practice
Another section of the expertly curated CME track covers applying quality improvement and patient safety in clinical practice, drawing on resources from JN Learning™ and elsewhere.
For example, one JN Learning module is composed of a JAMA Surgery article, “Preventing Surgical Site Infections in the Era of Escalating Antibiotic Resistance and Antibiotic Stewardship.”
You can save this course to your CME courses on AMA Ed Hub and do as much or as little of it whenever time permits in your busy schedule.
