CME Outfitters Blog

  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), chronic disease affects 117 million Americans and is a primary reason behind skyrocketing healthcare spending. 1  Yet patient outcomes are not improving with our increased spending; for patients with chronic disease, outcomes are typically the poorest as patients are challenged to self-manage their conditions […]

Social media has become ubiquitous, creating celebrities and household brand names overnight, and arguably the most impactful of these influencers come from YouTube. Yep – YouTube. No longer just for cute cat videos or re-watching your favorite team’s “Kick Six” (War Eagle!), YouTube has become a global phenomenon – sharing content in over 80 countries, […]

  Ensuring our participants receive fair, balanced and robust education are paramount to providing continuing medical education.  Because expert faculty often have financial relationships with commercial interests by the pure nature of their work on the cutting edge of developing new treatments, guidelines, and processes, one way we at CME Outfitters ensure independence is by […]

  Digital Health Coaching Can Deliver Better Outcomes and Healthcare Utilization It is well-established that social determinants—where you live, work, play, access to food and education—are all factors that impact an individual’s health risks and outcomes. Evidence indicates that your zip code may be more important than your genetic code in predicting health outcomes. It […]

I have memories of courses that were meant to teach me how – and how not – to write test questions. And while I’ve since used that knowledge to write everything from themed trivia questions to CME/CE assessments, no matter what type of multiple-question test you are creating – be it trivia, high school history, […]

Did you know that if you participate in CME activities, you could already be on your way to satisfying your Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) requirement?  Because MIPS falls under the Quality Payment Program, CME can count towards your MIPS requirement if the activities are designed and executed in alignment with the QPP guidance. As […]

Meeting planning isn’t for the faint of heart.  Between temperamental A/V systems, Mother Nature’s impact on carefully planned travel schedules, or last-minute agenda changes, there’s so much that goes into planning a successful event. But it’s all worth it, because our events really do make a difference.  I’ll get to that in a minute. Even […]

Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and the complexity surrounding the requirements for the various boards under the American Board of Medicine (ABMS) can be difficult to understand. In this post, we’ll unravel that complexity by taking a look at the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) MOC program and explaining how CME Outfitters can help ABIM […]