Activity ID
11043Expires
December 15, 2025Format Type
Performance Improvement (PI)CME Credit
5Fee
$30CME Provider: American Medical Association
Description of CME Course
This activity is part of the Practice Efficiently: Save Hours Each Day in your Clinical Practice series. Each activity is designed to remove obstacles in your practice that interfere with patient care. You will review and implement best practices to increase the number of annual prescriptions you are prescribing to your patients in this activity. By applying these best practices, you will spend more uninterrupted time with patients and finish work at work.
In support of physicians’ board certification, this Performance Improvement – Continuing Medical Education (PI-CME) activity is designed to support medical practices quality improvement (QI) initiatives for the purpose of earning CME credits and MOC Part IV points. During this activity, the learner will actively work towards improving their practice by assessing their current practice, learning best practices and guidelines relevant to the content, implementing changes to their practice, and evaluating and reflecting on the changes they made to their practice.
This activity has been approved for MOC Part IV points by the following specialty boards:
American Board of Anesthesiology
American Board of Dermatology
American Board of Emergency Medicine
American Board of Family Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics
American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
American Board of Ophthalmology
American Board of Otolaryngology
American Board of Pathology
American Board of Pediatrics
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
American Board of Preventive Medicine
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
American Board of Radiology
American Board of Surgery
American Board of Thoracic Surgery
American Board of Urology
National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants
Each activity is divided into separate assessment stages:
Baseline measurement and intervention planning stage – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits awarded upon completion.
Interventions implementation stage. At least 7 days of intervention implementation is required – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits awarded upon completion.
Evaluation measurement and reflections – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits awarded upon completion.
Completion and submission of final quiz – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits awarded upon completion.
Learners will earn a separate CME certificate for each stage completed.
Disclaimers
1. This activity is accredited by the American Medical Association.
2. This activity is free to AMA members.
ABMS Member Board Approvals by Type
ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity
Allergy and Immunology
Anesthesiology
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Family Medicine
Medical Genetics and Genomics
Nuclear Medicine
Ophthalmology
Orthopaedic Surgery
Pathology
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Plastic Surgery
Preventive Medicine
Psychiatry and Neurology
Radiology
Thoracic Surgery
Urology
Commercial Support?
NoNOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.
Educational Objectives
1. Describe the benefits of increasing the number of patients with annual prescriptions
2. Implement interventions designed to save time and improve clinical practice 3. Assess what did and did not work
Keywords
Performance Improvement, Continuing Medical Education and Maintenance of Certification, Medical Education and Training
Competencies
Medical Knowledge, Systems-based Practice
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
DOI
10.1001/ama.2022.0000688
Physician Well-being activity
Efficiencies in Medical Practice
