Director of Continuing Medical Education - College of Osteopathic Medicine

The Director of Continuing Medical Education provides oversight for the development, direction, and coordination of all continuing medical education activities of the Baptist Health Sciences University College of Osteopathic Medicine (BUCOM). The Director of Continuing Medical Education’s role is to assess and improve physician practice, core team communication, and patient outcomes. This role will solicit input from other staff, healthcare professionals (i.e., Designated Institutional Officer, Health Sciences Librarian, BMHCC healthcare professionals,) or committees to identify educational needs and develop activities.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Collaborates with BMHCC hospital CME personnel regarding accreditation policies and procedures and the ongoing status of the CME program. Informs administration about new requirements related to maintenance of licensure (MOL), board maintenance of certification (MOC), and CME.
• Provides leadership in all phases of the development of continuing medical education and actively communicates with various committees to recommend related policies.
• Secures financial and administrative support required to conduct all live CME activities (i.e., physical facilities, AV equipment, and personnel).
• Maintains compliance for activities that are jointly provided.
• Ensures timely submission of the Annual Report to the ACCME, outlining the size and scope of the organization’s CME program utilizing ACCME’s Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS).
• Confirms compliance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support
  
  SM. This includes developing CME activities that are independent of commercial interests, maintaining a separation of promotion from education, and actively promoting improvements in health care vs. proprietary interests of any commercial interest.
• Works with the CME Committee and quality improvement to identify the professional practice gaps and educational needs of the organization’s learners. Ensures that gaps and needs assessment data are recorded and documented, in every instance, utilizing ACGME core competencies.