Mission Statement

Office of Continuing Medical Education
University of Minnesota Medical School

The Office of Continuing Medical Education will provide the highest quality continuing educational activities to the community of health care professionals and the public through provision of local, regional, national, and international programs, which are responsive to specific practitioner, patient, and public health needs.

The Office of CME will positively influence patient care practice and outcomes throughout the State of Minnesota by providing continuing education courses for primary care practitioners and specialists. As a core component of the Medical School, the Office of Continuing Medical Education will function as a part of the learning continuum extending from undergraduate education through graduate medical education, and into the professional lives of our community of practitioners.

The Office of CME is flexible, efficient, fiscally responsible, and works collaboratively with other CME providers locally and regionally to provide comprehensive and effective education to the practitioner work force of the State of Minnesota. The office will provide leadership in documenting the effectiveness of these programs.

Specifically:

1. PURPOSE: The CME Office exists for the purpose of improving the broad practice of medicine, including patient care, biomedical and healthcare research, medical education, public health, and medical administration, innovation and leadership;

2. CONTENT AREAS: The CME Office delivers the highest quality educational activities, throughout the range of clinical, research, medical teaching, public health, and medical leadership skills. Our sponsored activities are founded on specific identified needs of practitioners and the public;

3. TARGET AUDIENCE: The CME Office provides educational opportunities that target the broad community of health care professionals including generalist and specialist physicians locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, and their partners in practice and the organizations in which they work. Clinicians, researchers, medical educators, public health workers, and medical administrative leaders are all targeted by various educational activities;

4. TYPES OF ACTIVITIES: The CME office provides educational offerings in the setting of conferences, tutorials, longitudinal experiential training, and distance learning such as print and electronic media;

5. EXPECTED RESULTS: The CME Office is committed to evaluating and improving both immediate and lasting changes induced by its educational activities. The office evaluates physician and health care team knowledge, skills, attitudes, practice, and decision-making, develops ways to improve them, conducts research into the effects of these innovations, and shares the findings of these efforts with the community of CME providers.