title: Reinventing CME: the role of the care pilot in the medical group practice.
abstract: This article recommends that the content of traditional continuing medical education be changed significantly to include the concepts and skills necessary to enable practice teams to feedback information into the practice, which would result in the creation of a learning organization with the ability to plan for and anticipate future activities. The primary role in this new organization would be called a care pilot who would have as a primary responsibility, the successful navigation and improvement of the 6 aims as spelled out in the Institute of Medicine report Crossing the Quality Chasm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA. barry-greene@uiowa.edu
authors.forename: Barry R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Greene
authors.forename: Gary L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Filerman
mesh_terms: D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006123:Group Practice / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D024382:Professional Role; D014481:United States