CME isn’t just another requirement of a demanding profession, it is an opportunity to grow as a clinician and as a human. With a large selection of specialties and leading-edge topics available, CME remains a mainstay of medical education and is an opportunity to advance your practice.
CME activities can also infuse fun and a sense of accomplishment to create an environment that empowers practitioners and promotes their well-being professionally and personally. CME benefits include networking, practical discussion, and collegial camaraderie in in-person settings. Online CME can help to target specific medical education needs and expose practitioners to a wide range of medical developments.
Benefits of All CME Formats
Up to Date Skills and Knowledge
There are two primary ways CME can help keep you up to date. A broad look at the recent trends and opportunities in practices, including primary care CME, can 1) Help you stay ahead in the business of healthcare and in your mission to treat patients more effectively and 2) Allow you to dive more deeply into relevant topics that not only provide actionable skills in areas like evolving diagnostic techniques but are also representative of the positive changes coming in your specialty.
CME Seminars is focused on delivering a great experience and value for all practitioners. We know that starts with great CME content presented by acclaimed clinicians who’ve designed engaging curriculums featuring leading-edge topics.
Maintain Licensure
While this one is certainly true and maybe feels too obvious to mention here, there are reasons to highlight it now and in the future. More state CME requirements are requiring highly specialized CME including pain management and geriatric care. It will be important to stay abreast of regulatory changes and keep your eye on CME providers best meeting practitioner needs.
In addition to the wider credentialing alignment among medicine’s authoritative bodies, CME conferences are now also a source of MOC credit. What’s great about this alignment between professional associations like the AMA and the ACCME is that it seeks to lower barriers to quality medical education. As such, its policies regarding CME credits and MOC points are designed to simplify the pursuit of both.
Benefits of CME Conferences
Networking on Your Terms
CME has been delivering the benefits of in-person learning for clinicians for decades. And networking is chief among them. Practitioners can connect with one another over a range of professional and personal areas of interest including investments and future-planning, novel healthcare delivery strategies, and the demands of family life. After all, practitioner well-being is important, and networking can help build a support system.
Breaks and Downtime
Half-day CME conferences, like those offered by CME Seminars, are mornings-only, making it simpler to plan your downtime. A mix of 3-,4-,5- and occasionally 7-day conferences provide an ideal schedule for a range of different recreational activities. Need a long weekend-style getaway? A 3- or 4-day conference could be ideal to relax and recharge. While half-day conference schedules of 5 days or more are perfect for vacationing with the whole family. Plan activities for you and your partner as well as any of your children maximize the time spent with them at a CME conference.
In-Person Learning
Even in the digital age, live in-person learning can be more effective for some clinician learners, making CME vacation destinations a positive in more ways than one. Conferences with a symposium-style structure create a forum for open discussion where practitioners can share their thoughts on various topics. In this reciprocal learning environment, practitioners have the agency to explore topics more deeply, instead of having to rely on the presenter to do so. Women’s health, the uses for complementary medicine, and systemic barriers to patient health are all CME subjects that merit discussion.
Benefits of On-Demand CME
Flexibility
All the benefits of high-quality on-demand content are enhanced by convenient access everywhere. Easy-to-use and navigate learning modules and programs ensure you can spend the maximum amount of time on the topics you care about. This flexibility enhances learning by allowing you to pair complementary formats in ways that help to target your weaknesses and support your strengths.
Wide Selection of Courses
It’s important for practitioners, especially those in specialties like primary care and family medicine, to expose themselves to a wide range of topics. Staying ahead in this rapidly changing field of medicine can seem daunting but online courses can be part of your strategy to reach your educational goals. Instead of guessing where the next breakthroughs will be, use online CME to shore up knowledge gaps and sample medical subjects that are abuzz with new ideas.