Medical Education News

 Complying with Open Payments regulations

 Staying within grant budgets

 Ensuring registration accuracy

 Keeping your staff in the office

Using local On-Site Meeting Professionals for your CME and Promotional meetings can help you handle these and many other challenges.

GCG Event Partners has been working with continuing medical education companies since 2003. With a network of thousands of meeting professionals across the country, we have been helping our clients run successful meetings for many years.

So, how can we help?

Complying with Open Payments regulations: We can help you by providing experienced On-Site Meeting Professionals who serve as important buffers. The sales reps won’t need to be concerned with who is handling the registration forms, collecting evaluations, introducing speakers, or preventing attendees from bringing a guest. That’s what we do.

Staying within grant budgets: You won’t need to worry about all the travel expenses anymore. By using local professionals not only do you save money, you’ll know the exact cost for every meeting in advance no matter where it is in the U.S. thanks to our consistent nationwide pricing.

Ensuring registration accuracy: Have someone there to make sure the registration forms are filled out properly.  As you know, incomplete or missing forms can lead to budgeting and compliance issues.

Keeping your staff in the office:

If the question is:  How do I ensure successful meetings while staying in compliance and on budget?

The answer is simple:  GCG Event Partners

Give us a call and take advantage of our Spring Education Promotion.  New clients get $50 off their first meeting. 

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781-279-9887

info@gcgeventpartners.com

In an article titled "“Are ‘useless’ exams raising the cost of healthcare in Alabama?", Alabama Today is raising the issue of the value of Maintenance of Certification (MOC) towards the healthcare system. Arguments are made that time and resources could be better spent with patients rather than on certification.  Click here to link to the full article. Members may add their comment on the NAMEC web site as well.

The bill allows the medical staff at hospitals to determine whether to require MOC or accept other forms of competency measures (such as Continuing Medical Education) for credentialing and/or admitting privileges. Hospitals requiring MOC must adopt bylaws making it a stipulation for work or network participation.

“[The Tennessee Medical Association's] goal, after years of complaints from our member physicians about MOC testing requirements, was simply to give doctors options for maintaining and improving their professional competency," said Nita W. Shumaker, MD, TMA president 2017-2018. "Doctors should not be forced by hospitals or insurance companies to participate in an arbitrary certification process that has not been shown to improve quality of care. This bill gives much-needed relief for doctors who may choose Continuing Medical Education or other forms of ongoing learning. Thanks to Senator Briggs, Rep. Williams and the other members of our state legislature, Tennessee is now one of few states developing real solutions to this national issue.”

Read full article here.

CME is an industry rooted in change, a profession that calls upon our abilities to recognize and address new challenges. It requires us to utilize our intellect, our diligence, and our creativity. NAMEC believes that each of these elements should be acknowledged. Recipients will have the opportunity to discuss their activities during the NAMEC Annual Meeting, to be held during the ACEHP Conference in Orlando, Florida January 20 – 23, 2018.

NAMEC Best Practice in Enduring Material Educational Design

Presented To: Paradigm Medical Communications, LLC for "Do You Know JAK?"

NAMEC Best Practice in Learner Outcomes

Presented To: CME Outfitters, LLC for "Incorporating Predictive Modeling Into Outcomes Analyses to Inform Educational Design: An Example from an Activity on Epilepsy"

NAMEC Best Practice in Live Activity Educational Design

Presented To: Paradigm Medical Communications for "BOnT-A for Spasticity: Transforming Science Into Clinical Success"

NAMEC Best Practice in CME Outside of the USA

Presented To: Paradigm Medical Communications for "Academy for the Advancement of Aesthetics"

NAMEC Best Practice in Collaboration Among CME Stakeholders

Presented To: Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning for "The Evolution of Therapies for NSCLC: Navigating New Therapies &Counseling Patients in Clinical Decisions"

Call for Grant Application (CGA): Oncology – Prostate Cancer
Deadline: January 19, 2018

Submit through the Astellas Grant Management System, accessible at www.astellasgrants.com

Target Audience - Primary: Urologists, both academic and community based. Secondary: Medical oncologists and other HCPs responsible for treatment decisions for patients with prostate cancer.

View full CGA

MIPS Scoring 101 Guide has been updated for 2017 reporting and is available for review here:

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Payment-Program/Resource-Library/MIPS-Scoring-101-Guide.pdf

Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change
Clinical area: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Applications due: Feb 16, 2018

Read full RFP here.

"Building an Educational Home Together" 
ACCME 2018 Meeting
April 16-29, 2019
Chicago, Illinois

From the ACCME web site, "The ACCME 2018 meeting will be a key opportunity for advancing your educational program, whether developing strategies for meeting the expectations of ACCME's Menu of Criteria for Accreditation with Commendation; pursuing public health imperatives; or seeking opportunities to bring technology, creativity, and innovation to your educational program."

Click here for more details. 

Celgene Corporation Request for Proposal
2018 AML Continuing Professional Educational Programming
Therapeutic Area: Hematology
Disease State: Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
Grant applications must be submitted through Celgene website: www.celgene.com

Full RFP: https://media.celgene.com/content/uploads/Celg-2017-RFP-AML.pdf

Deadline November 20, 2017 by 5PM EST.

We're happy to share BeaconLive's upcoming complimentary CME webinar featuring NAMEC Board of Director member Jamie Reiter, PhD - Director of Educational Outcomes at CME Outfitters. Her topic is Understanding the Why: A Primer on Using Predictive Modeling to Inform Educational Outcomes.  She will provide an overview of predictive modeling, as well as how to conduct the most common form of predictive modeling, ie regression, using Excel and other vetted online calculators.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand criteria for conducting different predictive modeling analyses
• Identify activities and variables to use for predictive modeling analysis
• Conduct a basic predictive modeling analysis

Interested in signing up for the session? Click below for additional details!

Understanding the Why: A Primer on Using
Predictive Modeling to Inform Educational Outcomes

Tuesday, November, 21 2017 – 11:00 AM EST

Asking whether or not an activity was successful is not enough in today's healthcare environment. Being able to answer the “why” related to educational outcomes is an important component of developing activities that not only ensures best practices are being implemented but also results in improved patient outcomes.

Want to reserve a spot for the 21st? You can register here.