Vision

• Vision
  Enhancing interprofessional health care education and patient outcomes through strategic and innovative collaborative education.
• Mission
  It is our mission to advance health in the state of Indiana and beyond by promoting innovation and excellence in education, research and patient care, as the preeminent provider of comprehensive and innovative lifelong learning opportunities for the health care team, by accrediting educational activities that are delivered to increase knowledge, competence and/ or performance.
• Purpose
  The purpose of IU School of Medicine’s Division of Continuing Medical Education  is to provide life-long learning opportunities designed to increase knowledge and competence and, to the fullest extent possible, to enhance the ability of physicians and other health care professionals to improve their performance and/or to improve patient- and systems-level outcomes.
• Content Areas
  IU School of Medicine is a premier academic medical center and offers a comprehensive, statewide scope of continuing medical activities across the spectrum of medicine and health care, drawing on the clinical and basic science resources represented by the school and its centers of excellence and research. The scope of CME activities involves the body of knowledge and skills generally recognized and accepted by the profession as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision of health care to the public. Educational content is evidence-based, references best practices that are supported by peer-reviewed literature and guidelines and is free of commercial bias.
• Target Audience
  IU School of Medicine CME develops learning initiatives and interventions that target multiple audiences—depending on learners’ needs, partners and the activities themselves. Many locally targeted activities draw upon Indiana-based needs assessment data where IU School of Medicine faculty join Indiana health care partners to develop learning activities that are responsive to the needs of Indiana’s clinicians. While those needs are targeted, often they reflect the educational needs of physicians across the country and around the world. In addition, strategic partnerships with nationally recognized organizations enable us to work on a larger scale. Targeted audiences include the broad range of the medical profession, from full-time practitioners to academic physicians as well as other allied health care professionals locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
• Type of Activities
  CME activities employ evidence-based adult learning principles that recognize different learning preferences and styles and target expected outcomes. Types of activities include live learning opportunities such as conferences, workshops, seminars, live webcasts, and regularly scheduled series; internet enduring materials; and tools for self-directed learning such as Learning from Teaching and performance improvement (PI) opportunities; and other teaching improvement and collaborative projects that utilize CME as part of multi-component strategies to improve population health status and outcomes. When possible, learning formats are highly interactive, include multiple exposures to the same content, and are sequenced for learning.
• Expected Results
  The school expects that, as a result of its CME programs, physician learners acquire new knowledge, skills and attitudes that increase clinical competence and/or improve performance with the goal of improving patient care, safety and health outcomes. IU School of Medicine CME is committed to assessing the impact of its program and activities through multiple approaches, including qualitative and quantitative methods that track outcomes to ensure that these goals are met.