by John Otrompke
M
eeting planners who try to build conference attendance from multiple medical specialties got a helping hand recently which made their task a little bit easier, when a number of accreditation agencies made a new process for joint accreditation possible for them.
Multi-disciplinary training is thought to be important to quality improvement in the medical setting, according to a 2003 report from the U.S. Institute of Medicine, Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality. As a result, some meeting planners have been trying to design programs with multi-specialty teams in mind, but they have faced barriers to increased meeting enrollment. To ease the process, the joint accreditation process has been available since 2009 from the American Academy of Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), one of several groups which certi- fies that CME meets standards for quality and independence. Orga- nizations that meet standards for joint accreditation are eligible to produce CME accredited by the Accreditation Council for Phar- macy Education and the American Nurses Credentialing Center, in addition to the ACCME.
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Last September, Creighton University, a Jesuit college located in Omaha, Nebraska, became one of only four institutions that are jointly accredited. “Our programs have always been multidis- ciplinary but for each one we had to go to a different certification provider to get credit. With this joint accreditation we have only one application,” said Dr. Sally O’Neill, PhD, associate vice presi- dent for health sciences continuing education at Creighton. Now, the college is hoping to make 95% of the conferences multidisci- plinary in nature. The 100-year-old college puts on about 99 different activities a
year, including courses, one or two-day conferences, distinguished lectures, online activities, and the regularly scheduled departmen- tal series, O’Neill explained.
Most programs take place in Omaha, such as a program on pul- monary care taking place at the end of March, for which the plan- ning committee is made up of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, re- spiratory therapists, and emergency medical service providers, she added.
Another organization looking to put on more multi-specialty MIDWEST MEETINGS SUMMER 2012
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