Overview
The East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
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Mission:
To provide lifelong learning opportunities that meet the needs of faculty and health care professionals in Tennessee and the surrounding Appalachian region. -
Vision:
To be the region’s leading provider of continuing education in health care. -
Purpose:
To enhance the knowledge, skills and competencies of faculty and health care professionals leading to improved community health and patient outcomes.
About CME
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Content Areas:
- All areas of medical knowledge (research and patient care), clinical skills, interprofessional practice, interpersonal and communication skills, ethics and professionalism, practice-based learning and improvement, and systems-based practice, including changes in health policy and health care delivery
- Improvement in practice through activities that link CE to quality improvement, patient safety and improved patient care
- Prevention, behavioral health and disease states (identified as public health priorities), patient safety and quality improvement
- Special needs of the region's ethnic and socioeconomic populations
- Development and/or distribution of supplemental tools and resources
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Target Audience:
The target audience includes health care teams representing primary and specialty care practitioners within:
- ETSU Quillen College of Medicine, ETSU Health Associated Colleges, and alumni
- Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina communities
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Types of Activities:
CEHP staff will design, develop, implement and evaluate educational programming that supports the continuing professional development of health care professionals to better serve patients, the public, and the professions.
- To provide evidence-based CE activities that emphasize research and patient care. Coverage of these subject areas will be accomplished through special conferences, regularly scheduled series (such as grand rounds, case-conferences), enduring materials, web-based CE, learning from teaching, performance improvement CE, and other formats as needed.
- To design educational activities which provide the most effective learning experience and enhance the delivery of CE programming.
- Jointly sponsored programs and partnerships with like-minded institutions or organizations in the region is a priority for the Department of CEHP.
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Expected Results:
- The CE program will provide quality educational activities that address identified educational needs of health care professionals and enhance their ability to improve health outcomes of patients and their communities.
- The Department of CEHP will evaluate and assess activity outcomes to determine changes in competence of these professionals and, for selected activities, ascertain whether changes in performance have occurred. Methods of evaluation may include learner satisfaction, pre- and post-activity knowledge assessment, intended or self-reported changes in practice, performance data, and other quality indicators.
Online Courses
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THE ART OF DEATH CERTIFICATION
Access The Art of Death Certification Course
This course will provide proper death certification education to providers through a recorded lecture format to be available as an enduring material. This is a need that has been identified throughout the Quillen College of Medicine and Mountain Home VA Medical Communities. Proper death certification is an essential function of physician practice and not complying with regulations could potentially impact medical staff membership, and possibly medical license.
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ETSU OPIOID SAFE PRESCRIBING
Access ETSU Opioid Ssafe Prescribing Course
$50 for non-ETSU participants
$25 for ETSU participants
This is a two-part enduring material.Part 1: Controlled Substance Safe Prescribing: Hospice and pain Management Provider, Dr. Steven Baumrucker, provides learners with education and information regarding the Tennessee Department of Health Chronic Pain Guidelines.
Part 2: Risk Management: Public Health Professional in the clinical and classroom setting, Dr. Bill Brooks, provides an in-depth look at harm reduction and how it might be used to prevent overdoses.
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OPIOID USE DISORDER IN PREGNANCY: EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT
Access Opioid Use Disroder In Pregnancy Course
This course will focus on evidence-based treatment presented by Nathan Mullins, MD, FACOG/FASAM- focusing on the diagnosis of opioid use disorder in pregnant women, treatment of opioid use disorder in pregnancy, Medical Assisted Withdrawal (MAW) vs. Opioid Agonist Treatment, and childhood development outcomes.