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CME Accreditation Statement
CME Accreditation Statement
Vanderbilt
ACCME/AMA Accreditation This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for CME (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Improvement Learning. Vanderbilt School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for CME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Vanderbilt School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Successful completion of all six modules could add up to a maximum of 6 category 1 credits. Credit is awarded per module. Successful completion of all six modules could add up to a maximum of 6 category 1 credits. Date of Last Review: September 1, 2010.
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How to Receive CME Credit
To receive any of the three types of credit that this course offers, please do the following:
When your payment is approved, you will automatically receive your certificate or participation online. You can access a record of your completed activity and your certificates by going to your "My Account" area. (Top)
Disclosure Statements
Commercial Support
This educational activity has received no commercial support.
Conflicts of Interest
It is the policy of Vanderbilt School of Medicine to require disclosure of financial relationships from individuals in a position to control the content of a CME activity; to identify and resolve conflicts of interest related to those relationship; and to make disclosure information available to the audience prior to the CME activity. In addition, presenters are required to disclose discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of devices during their presentations.
All course directors, planners and presenters indicated no financial relationships to disclose.
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CME Planning Committee
The CME planning committee for this CME activity consisted of:
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Privacy Statement & Educational Only Disclaimer
Privacy Statement
The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine respects your privacy. Any personal information collected from participants in online continuing education activities we sponsor will not be shared with any third party.
There are a few ways in which we collect data concerning your participation in online learning activities at this site. If a User Session has not started, when you (the user) click on the "Modules" button, you will be prompted to either sign in or complete a simple registration (first name, last name, username, password, e-mail address, occupation), if you have not registered previously. If you have already registered, we ask you to "log in" with your username and password. This is used to identify you so that you can pause and later resume your progress through the modules. This also allows us to create a unique record of your participation without knowing anything more about you. When you complete an activity, we will ask you to provide additional information if you want continuing education documentation of your participation in this activity: full name, degree, specialty, postal address and telephone number. This makes it possible for us to store a record of your participation in an electronic database, and it allows you to print a certificate. It also makes it possible for us retrieve your account information should you need to access your certificate. We also collect aggregate data related to participant responses to module questions, as well as responses to user surveys. (Completion of a post activity survey is required of those seeking CME credit documentation; completion of a follow-up survey is optional for those in this group.) Completion of both a post activity survey (activity evaluation) and of a 3-month follow-up survey are optional for those not seeking CME documentation. This information is only used to assess the effectiveness of the program and to identify and guide potential enhancements to the program and does not contain any identifiable personal data. We also count "visits" to pages (different parts of this website) in order to learn which pages are visited most often. As with any website, we know your originating service provider, such as America Online, or referring Web link. We may utilize your "point of entry" to determine the extent to which particular external web sites or other sources refer visitors to this site. At the end of the evaluation you will be asked if you would like to receive a limited number of CME e-mail notices, annually, concerning activities you might find of interest. From time to time you may encounter optional user surveys, which seek to help us better tailor CME resources and activities to meet the needs and interests of the professionals we serve. Please let us know if you have any concerns or suggestions regarding this policy or any of our CME programs or other services. We can be reached at info@improvementskills.org. Thank you.
Educational Disclaimer
CME activities sponsored by the Vanderbilt School of Medicine are offered solely for educational purposes and do not constitute any form of professional advice or referral. Practitioners should always consult additional sources of information and exercise their best professional judgment before making clinical decisions of any kind.
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Time, Equipment, & Software Required
Time Requirement
Completion of each module and its respective evaluation will ordinarily take between 55 and 65 minutes, including its respective evaluation.
Equipment and Software
Completion of these modules requires a Windows or Macintosh computer running Internet Explorer version 5.x or greater, Netscape Navigator 6.x or greater, or AOL 7.x or greater. Any pop-up blocking software you have installed may need to be disabled, temporarily, for full use of the site.
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Acknowledgments of Financial & In-Kind Support
We wish to acknowledge and express our sincere appreciation for support for original work contributing to the development of this project from a grant awarded by the Contemporary Education Initiative of "The Network" at the Center for the Health Professions, University of California, San Francisco. We would also like to acknowledge and express our gratitude for the unusual encouragement and support provided to this project by the Case Western Reserve University Division of Information Technology Services in the form of technical assistance and an unsecured loan, making it possible to initiate a major redesign and upgrade of the HISC Website and accompanying healthcare improvement skills web modules, in 2004-5. The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Program in Continuing Medical Education, the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, the Academy for Post Graduate Health Care Education, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement all contributed a great deal of encouragement and in-kind staff time to the initial stages of this undertaking. In addition, IHI's New Health Partnerships project awarded a small grant making it possible to incorporate an example of patient participation in an improvement project in Module 2, Building a Team. Finally, we would like to acknowledge, here, the participation and significant contributions of two commercial vendors to this initial work, Medical Directions Inc., Tucson, Arizona, and Improvement Learning, Shaker Heights, Ohio.(Top)
Contact Information
For more information about this site, about assessing the impact of its use in your setting, or about the possibility of adapting its content to the special needs of a given population of healthcare professionals or a particular healthcare setting, society, organization or system, please contact:
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