Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Self-Assessment: History and Theory

While similar in some ways to other hospital-based physicians such as specialists in a hospital’s critical-care unit, hospitalists have a broader mandate to help manage patients throughout the entire hospital stay, often seeing them in the ER, following them into the critical-care unit, and overseeing post-acute care and discharge. Such a comprehensive approach allows hospitalists to recognize and diagnose disorders and conditions most commonly seen in hospitalized patients, anticipate problems, and rapidly respond to crises or changes in a patient’s condition. These opportunities are not always realized in practice.

Hospitalists are the key communicators with patients and their families. They are better able to facilitate communication among shift changes of healthcare professionals and manage patients’ transitions among the various phases of their hospitalization, including patient flow and intra-hospital hand-offs.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This activity has been primarily designed for physicians certified in Internal Medicine and enrolled in ABIM’s Maintenance of Certification program. It is also applicable to physicians having other specialty certification, physicians not enrolled in MOC, Nurse Practioners, and Physicians Assistants working in a hospital setting.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

The Society of Hospital Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CREDIT STATEMENT

The Society of Hospital Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity, with individual assessments of the participant and feedback to the participant, enables the participant to earn a maximum of 2 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC points.

Release date:                   

Expiration date:

Estimated time to complete activity

CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE POLICY

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support, SHM requires that individuals in a position to control the content of an educational activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. SHM resolves all conflicts of interest to ensure independence, objectivity, balance, and scientific rigor in all its educational programs. All relevant financial relationships shall be disclosed to participants prior to the start of the activity.

Furthermore, SHM seeks to verify that all scientific research referred to, reported, or used in a continuing medical education (CME) activity conforms to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis. SHM is committed to providing its learners with high-quality CME activities that promote improvements in healthcare and not those of a commercial interest.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 ABIM MOC Self Evaluation Points
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 2.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 Non-physician
Course opens: 
11/21/2017
Course expires: 
11/21/2020
Your cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
0

SHM Activity Director: Jeffrey Glasheen, MD, SFHM, FACP

Jeff Glasheen, MD has no relevant conflicts to disclose.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

The Society of Hospital Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CREDIT DESIGNATION STATEMENT

The Society of Hospital Medicine designates this activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 2 MOC points [and patient safety MOC credit] in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Available Credit

  • 2.00 ABIM MOC Self Evaluation Points
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 2.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 Non-physician

Price

Your cost:
$0.00
Please login or register to take this course.