CME Outcomes
MeasurementS
Our outcomes experts represent a unique blend of educational, clinical, and statistical talent that can help you design meaningful outcome studies to demonstrate the impact of your educational efforts.
We offer cost-effective, proven, reliable, and evidence - based strategies specifically designed to highlight the success of your educational programming by demonstrating:
- Achievement of statistically measurable goals
- Clinical relevance of changes in learning, competence, and performance in practice
- Barriers to implementation and identification of gaps that remain
Our Processes
AACMEPlus™ utilizes a variety of primary and secondary data sources and tools to ensure its outcomes measurement and analysis activities are accurate and verifiable. These include:
- Data Source 1: Peer review literature & breakthrough data.
- Data Source 2: National and international data registries.
- Data Source 3: Regional and local surveillance.
- Data Source 4: Third-party payers.
- Data Source 5: Nominal group interviews.
- Data Source 6: Focus groups.
- Data Source 7: Electronic point of care data.
- Data Source 8: Aggregate Rx measurement.
Why Outcomes Measurement?
Continuing medical education is a vital element of the world's healthcare system. But it's costly, both in terms of dollars spent and time and effort expended, to produce first-rate, objective programming. Including educational outcomes measurement as a component of CME programming will prove course directors, faculty, and grantors with practical, verifiable information that can document the real impact the programming has had on its intended audience. AACMEPlus™ educational outcomes measurement and analysis services can help you to:
- Benefit 1: Scientifically assess the effectiveness of a CME intervention.
- Benefit 2: Validate the learning objectives’ ability to support the unmet needs.
- Benefit 3: Clearly distinguish an activity as being educational vs. promotional.
- Benefit 4: Ensure that content adequately reflects the learning objectives.
- Benefit 5: Identify, measure and analyze what was learned and not learned.
- Benefit 6: Challenge the validity of the educational strategy and needs assessment.
- Benefit 7: Justify current and future resource allocation
- Benefit 8: Provide benchmarks for interim adjustments and learning objectives.
CME outcomes measurement doesn't need to be costly to be effective.
We work with partners to identify clear objectives and tailor a measurement approach to each and every program goal and budget.
