Continuing Education Credits

 

Continuing Education Process

The main reason it is so important to provide your session details as soon as possible is because of deadlines required for continuing education credits. CMDA is accredited to provide credits and historically offers continuing education credits at the convention, which is a major draw for attendees. It is our responsibility to apply for credits as early as possible, so we can promote the credits to our attendees for several months prior to the convention.

 

Calendar Schedule for Breakout Sessions

April — Track deans start brainstorming session ideas/speakers for next year’s event

May — Track deans analyze feedback from this year’s event to help determine focus for next year

June — Track deans confirm the schedule for the tracks at next year’s event

June through August — Track deans contact potential speakers and solidify schedule, speakers and topics for next year’s event

September through October — Track deans provide contact information to CMDA’s Events department, and then CMDA initiates contact with individual speakers

September through October — Breakout speakers provide session information to CMDA’s Events department

October — CMDA’s Events department gathers all the session information together into the application and addresses any questions or concerns with individual speakers

November — CMDA’s Events department submits the application for continuing education credits

December through January — CMDA’s Events department works directly with CMDA’s Continuing Education department while CMDA’s Continuing Education Committee reviews and decides whether or not to give approval for the credits

January through April — CMDA promotes continuing education credits to attendees

 

Continuing Education Details for Speakers

Continuing medical education consists of educational activities which serve to maintain, develop or increase the knowledge, skills and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public or the profession.

 

The content of continuing medical education is that body of knowledge and skills generally recognized and accepted by the profession as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision of health care to the public.

 

• All recommendations for patient care in accredited continuing education must be based on current science, evidence and clinical reasoning, while giving a fair and balanced view of diagnostic and therapeutic options.
• All scientific research referred to, reported or used in accredited education in support or justification of a patient care recommendation must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis and interpretation.
• Though accredited continuing education is an appropriate place to discuss, debate and explore new and evolving topics, these areas need to be clearly identified as such within the program and individual presentations. It is the responsibility of accredited providers to facilitate engagement with these topics without advocating for, or promoting, practices that are not, or not yet, adequately based on current science, evidence and clinical reasoning.

 

Please be aware that CMDA cannot be accredited to provide continuing education if we advocate for unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or if our education promotes recommendations, treatment or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients.

 

Non-clinical topics must be evident in the learning objectives and explain how the topic relates to one of the following:

• Have a direct bearing on a physician’s ability to deliver patient care.
• Assist physicians in carrying out their professional responsibilities more effectively and efficiently.
• Directly support the profession of medicine.

 

For continuing dental education, dental topics must relate to topics identified by the Academy of General Dentistry’s (AGD) Subject Code. For more information on AGD credit see the Program Guidelines.

 

If you have any questions related to continuing education, please contact [email protected].

 

Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].