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CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION MISSION STATEMENT of the CENTER FOR BIO-MEDICAL COMMUNICATION, INC. (CBC)
Our mission is to provide quality continuing medical educational activities that measurably improve physicians’ competence and performance and to integrate these quality improvements into physician practice, thereby improving patient outcomes. To achieve these goals, our faculty employs the best available evidence to provide valid, balanced, independent, and timely educational programming.
The Center for Bio-Medical Communication identifies and addresses unmet needs and barriers to physician and healthcare practitioner change through regular evaluations using posttests, surveys, interviews, literature searches, and discussions with expert advisory board members and other therapeutic area experts, in order to monitor the pulse of the healthcare environment, keep abreast of the newest developments in the field, and create educational interventions that improve physician practice in response to demonstrated need.
Purpose
- To improve physicians’ ability to more accurately diagnose and effectively manage patients within their community so as to improve health outcomes. To help physicians change and learn through activities that transmit current and accurate information and provide an unbiased learning environment.
Content Areas
- Current content areas include: oncology, critical care, infectious diseases, pediatrics, gynecology, cardiology, cardiovascular, neurology, dermatology, psychology, psychiatry, pain management, endocrinology, women’s health, urology, immunology, embryology, pulmonology, gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, herpes, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis.
Target Audience
- CME activities are directed to healthcare providers, including physicians, physicians-in-training, nurse practitioners, specialty nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, and other allied health professionals.
Types of Activities
- Our goal is to continuously refine our methodology to provide physicians with a more active learning environment, and to increase outreach of our programming to better serve physicians who may not have access to major teaching centers. With that goal in mind, a broad spectrum of CME activity types is offered, including: live conferences, live Internet activities, web-based enduring materials, print and electronic (audio and CD-ROM) enduring materials, and journal CME.
- CBC strives to provide educational activities in a format that will result in measurable outcomes in terms of changes in physician knowledge, competence, and performance. We measure and document the effectiveness of our activities using qualitative and quantitative evaluation tools, including live audience response system testing and scoring, postmeeting evaluations, posttests for enduring materials, pre- and postmeeting case-based surveys, and collaboration with outcomes measurement organizations.
- CBC evaluates the effectiveness of and makes continual improvements to the overall CME program through regular Advisory Board review of activity evaluations, needs assessments, and outcomes measurements.
Expected Results
- CBC anticipates that our CME programming will improve physician knowledge, competence, and performance by: updating knowledge of clinical intervention options; reviewing technologic advances; providing vehicles to maintain, develop, or increase healthcare provider knowledge, skills, and professional performance; improving the quality of patient care, treatment outcomes, and effectiveness of staff training and supervision; and encouraging active participation and peer
Mission Statement - Parexel International Corporation
PAREXEL strives to be the premier global organization dedicated to the development of new therapeutic alternatives by providing contract research services, medical marketing, consultation and educational services to industry, government agencies, the nonprofit sector, the healthcare community, and the consumer. PAREXEL is committed to delivering quality, flexibility, and satisfaction to the benefit of patients, clients, employees, shareholders, and the medical community through innovation, global orientation, sound business and research management, and dedication to scientific excellence.
The PAREXEL organization is committed to providing services and information resources that meet or exceed established standards and is committed to providing these with integrity and ethical principles.
Over 3500 highly qualified professionals with expertise in a wide variety of disciplines and clinical specialties work in unison to identify, design, and implement activities and programs to address demonstrated needs in healthcare.
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