Activity ID
11036Expires
December 12, 2026Format Type
InternetCME Credit
10Fee
$250.00CME Provider: Mayo Clinic
Description of CME Course
Process improvement in healthcare delivery has not been part of medical training until recently. This has been felt to be an essential skill to move forward with improving health care outcomes, reduction in errors, improvement in efficiencies and reducing costs. The national boards of most medical specialties now require a demonstration of knowledge in quality improvement to maintain physician certification. The quality academy has developed the course Mayo Clinic Application of Quality Improvement: Tools and Methods – Silver Level to teach/disseminate key quality tools and a systematic approach to help health care practitioners assess and improve the systems they work in. This will include a discussion of the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) framework, data analysis, and the use of “tools” such as value stream map and control chart to review the data and performance.
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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. Articulate the case for patient-centered quality and affordability
2. Apply systems and process thinking to work
3. Employ DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) framework as a structured approach for improvement
4. Select and use appropriate quality improvement tools within a DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) framework
5. Identify and measure gaps in quality
6. Apply process improvement principles
Keywords
Quality Improvement/improved healthcare outcomes/process/
Competencies
Medical Knowledge, Systems-based Practice
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Opioid REMS
This educational activity is supported by an independent educational grant from the Extended-Release/Long-Acting Opioid Analgesic REMS Program Companies.
Practice Setting
Academic Medicine, Inpatient, Outpatient, Physician Executives, Physician Scientists, Rural, Urban
