title: Rethinking CME: an imperative for academic medicine and faculty development.
abstract: To help address the clinical care gap, a working group discussed the future of faculty development in academic medicine, explored problems within the large, current enterprise devoted to continuing medical education (CME), and described four domains core to its revitalization and reformation. These domains are (1) preparing and supporting an engaged clinician-learner, (2) improving the quality of knowledge or evidence shared, (3) enhancing the means by which to disseminate and implement that knowledge and evidence, and (4) reforming the patient, health care, and regulatory systems in and for which the process of CME exists. Reshaping these domains requires the consideration of a more seamless, evidence-based, and patient-oriented continuum of medical education. Revitalizing CME also requires the full engagement of the academic medical community and its faculty. To achieve the goal of creating a new, more effective, seamless process of CME, the working group recommended an active faculty development process to develop strong clinician-learners, strong involvement of academic health center leaders, the development of an educational home for clinician-learners, and a meaningful national conversation on the subject of CME.
authors.affiliation: Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC 20037, USA. ddavis@aamc.org
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prescott
authors.forename: C Michael
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Fordis
authors.forename: Stephen B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: Charlene M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Dewey
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Brigham
authors.forename: Steve A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Lieberman
authors.forename: Robin W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Rockhold
authors.forename: Susan J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Lieff
authors.forename: Thomas E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Tenner
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D017145:Models, Educational; D012380:Role; D013192:Staff Development; D014481:United States