Continuing Medical Education
Lectures & Conferences
Teleconferencing and Audio Conferencing Courses are available through Media Services.
Subject-Based Grand Rounds
Subject-based CME is defined as those CME activities that revolve around expert guest speakers being invited to lecture on specific topics. Department chairs or designated physicians in charge of CME for their departments select speakers and topics based on:
- Demonstrated need (based on external measurements: QA, patient surveys, tests)
- Expressed need (based on physician surveys or suggestions)
- Presumed need (based on basic curriculum, new developments, opinion and experience of program planners)
- Cardiology
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- HIV Consortium
- Institute for Health and Healing
- Medicine
- Neurosciences
- OB/GYN
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Transplantation
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Case-Based Conferences
Case-based CME is defined as those CME activities that revolve around ongoing review of departmental case loads. Departments requesting case-based CME credit must submit a CME Request Form annually.
CPMC offers the following case-based conferences:
- Anesthesiology
- Cardiac Surgery
- Cardiology
- Gastroenterology
- General Cancer Board
- GYN Pathology Conference
- Institute for Health and Healing
- Medicine
- Neurosciences
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Otolaryngology
- Perinatal/Neonatal Conference
- Pulmonary
- Radiation Oncology
- Radiology
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The Institute for Health and Healing
The Institute for Health and Healing (IHH) was created to awaken individuals and communities to the deepest meaning of health and the broadest understanding of healing. The Medical Director is William B. Stewart, MD. IHH offers a variety of CME courses. For more information, please call Finola Poynton at 202-1534.
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Alternative and New Technologies for CME Programming
The CME Committee and CME Office at California Pacific Medical Center recognize that physicians have access to a variety of mechanisms for obtaining and maintaining their medical education. They are no longer limited to obtaining CME through hospital rounds and meetings. Utilization of activities such as audio-conferencing and teleconferencing, and particularly the use of computer based learning materials, is clearly increasing. The CME Committee membership includes individuals knowledgeable in medical informatics and in teaching technologies utilizing communication links. The Committee is working with these individuals to develop cataloguing and access systems for such technologies for our hospital medical staff and for others in our community.
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