CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

CME Mission

The Medical Educator Consortium’s (MEC) is dedicated to elevating the standards in physician education. Our mission is to develop educational activities that provide physicians with an academic vehicle through which they can fulfill career-long learning commitments.

PURPOSE: The purpose of our CME program is to:

 1) stimulate interest, inform, enhance skills and foster the productive exchange of ideas, approaches and experiences among all specialties of medicine.

 2) provide a comprehensive range of programs in different medical specialties that emphasize the latest developments and cutting-edge medical knowledge.

TYPES OF ACTIVITIES:

The CME program will provide education through state-of-the-art conferences that include symposia, interactive sessions, panel discussions, plenary sessions and written materials.

The focus of these CME activities will be based on enhancing the learners’ outcomes as they relate to:

 1) Competence in Patient Care

 2) Performance in the Physicians Practice; or

 3) Improved Patient Outcomes

EXPECTED RESULTS:

These programs rely on national level needs assessment activities in conjunction with focus group, random sampling and personal evaluations that include learner outcome assessments to identify “gaps” in current professional practice, as a mechanism for designing well-defined CME activities that provide strategies and techniques to optimize health care delivery. Additionally, participant self assessment tools will be used as a follow up to these programs in order to provide the information needed to identify goals related to competence, performance, and/or patient outcomes and measure the success of particular programs in achieving these goals.

These self assessment tools include:

 1) Post conference evaluations – to determine whether a change in the physicians professional practice has occurred which directly relates to the CME activity.

 2) Pre and/or Post test - specifically for board review courses and enduring materials to assess of the knowledge gained.

 3) Post conference questionnaire on patient outcomes – to evaluate the physicians overall performance as he/she relates it to the patient care of a specific topic in the CME activity.

The Medical Educator Consortium is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. These activities have been approved for AMA PRA credit.

Disclosure Statement
The Medical Educator Consortium adheres to the ACME Standards for Commercial Support. Faculty disclosure information will be made available during the activity. Faculty members are also expected to disclose to participants any discussion of off-label and/or investigational use of pharmaceutical products or devices during

CME Committee Advisors

Robert E. Marx, D.D.S, Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Oral/Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine

Robert M. Goldman, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, American Academy of Anti-Aging.

Raymond J. Lanzafame, M.D, M.B.A., F.A.C.S., Active clinical surgeon and has an M.B.A. from the William E. Simon School of the University of Rochester. He is active on numerous RGH committees and the RGH Foundation Board of Directors in addition to active participation in the Monroe County Medical Society's Community Internship and Scholarship Committees.

Harry Rein, J.D. M.D., the only doctor-lawyer-judge in the U.S. He is currently a trial lawyer limiting practice to medical malpractice cases and is an active judge with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, financial planning and advisor for professionals.

Paul Wetter, M.D., Chairman, The Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons and Clinical Professor Emeritus at University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine.


For more information on our accreditation process, guidelines and CME activities, contact us at tvalls@meccinc.com  or Executive Director: Teri Valls, CMP, CMM at tvalls@meccinc.com