St. Joseph’s Health recognizes that professional responsibility of physicians requires continuous learning throughout their careers. To assist with professional development, we provide Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities. Physicians can earn CME credits by participating in St. Joseph’s Health accredited CME activities.
Purpose
The St. Joseph’s Health Continuing Medical Education (CME) program promotes continuous improvement in patient health care by providing physicians and other health care professionals with high quality, evidence-based educational activities focusing on advances in medicine, medical technology, biomedical research, and changes in the health care environment. The overall goal of the program is to improve patient safety and outcomes by enhancing physician knowledge, competence and performance in practice.
Content
The CME program includes a broad range of primary care, specialty and subspecialty topics chosen through a comprehensive needs assessment process. The needs assessment process identifies professional practice gaps in physician knowledge, competence and/or performance, defined as differences between current practice and best practice.
- Continuing medical education content is chosen for its relevance to the target audience’s current or potential scope of professional activities.
- CME activities are chosen with the expectation of changing competence, performance, and/or patient outcomes.
- CME activities are chosen in educational formats appropriate for the setting, objectives and desired results of the activity.
- CME activities are developed in the context of desirable physician attributes, including Institute of Medicine and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Competencies.
- CME activities are developed independent of commercial interests; however, when applicable, CME activities receiving commercial support are managed according to ACCME Standards for Commercial Support.
- CME activities are developed to maintain a separation of promotion from education.
- CME activities are designed to promote improvements in health care and not proprietary commercial interests.
Target Audience
- Faculty from SJH/New York Medical College/Saint George’s University School of Medicine/Seton Hall University School of Health and Medical Sciences.
- Local community physicians.
- Other physicians in Northern New Jersey.
- Health care professionals as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Activity Types
St. Joseph’s Health offers a variety of CME activities, including the following:
- Regularly Scheduled Series
- Live Courses and Seminars
- Skills Workshops and Simulation-based Training
- Enduring Materials
Learning methods are selected based on the setting, identified needs, desired results, and learning styles of the target audience.
Expected Results
As a result of their participation in the Sr. Joseph’s Health CME program, learners will demonstrate changes in performance, competence and/or improvement. Metrics for determination of success include the following:
- For changes in competence, outcomes assessments will be utilized to determine if learners indicate they will apply new strategies in practice.
- For improvements in performance-in-practice, outcomes assessments will show that physicians implemented new behaviors in their practice that were intended as results of the educational activity.
- For improvements in patient outcomes, outcomes assessments will show physician self-reported improvements in patient outcomes and/or improvements in quality data over time.
For Staff: Click here to for information on development/certification of CME Activities.
Contact Us
For more information or questions about St. Joseph’s Continuing Medical Education, call 973-754-2684.