Enduring Continuing Medical Education Courses
VCOM and the Institute of Consultative Bioethics proudly partner to provide enduring continuing medical education on clinical ethics for patient-centered care and practitioner professionalism and communication. Click on the button to learn more about available offerings.
The mission of VCOM’s Continuing Medical Education (CME) program is to enhance the professional development of VCOM faculty, community-based physicians, and healthcare professionals regionally, nationally, and internationally. In pursuit of this mission, VCOM is committed to excellence in biomedical education, research, and healthcare. It will achieve its mission by augmenting physicians’ clinical knowledge and competence, improving clinical knowledge and performance, and promoting lifelong learning so that their practices reflect exceptional medical care for their patients. In correlation with the mission and goals of the college, the CME program places a specific focus on preparing globally-minded, community-focused osteopathic physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations with an emphasis on the Appalachian and Delta regions of the United States.
VCOM’s CME Program does not promote or provide non-evidence-based clinical content. The CME Program does not advocate for unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, and does not promote recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers.
The mission of the CME program encompasses the following:
Promoting lifelong learning and all desirable physician attributes expressed in the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Core Competencies.
- Identifying the professional practice gaps in physician knowledge, competence and/or performance, defined as differences between current practice and best practice of physicians, that might be addressed through CME programs.
- Designing and implementing CME activities that present content that is unbiased, evidence-based, and free of commercial interest in educational formats appropriate for the setting, objectives, and desired results of the activity.
- Evaluating changes in physician knowledge, competence, and performance as a result of the CME process, using both quantitative and qualitative measures.
- Increasing physician competence through the acquisition of knowledge and new strategies to address the prevention, diagnosis, and/or treatment of a specific health care need.
- Enhancing physician performance through their newly acquired skills and knowledge, to improve health outcomes and make changes in practice for their patients and communities.
- Enhancing physician understanding of clinical and patient issues of rural and medically underserved populations, especially within the populations of Appalachia and the Delta regions of the United States.
- Enhancing physician understanding of research related to healthcare issues of rural and medically underserved populations.
About Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Accreditation for Continuing Medical Education
The Edward College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide AOA 1-A credits for physicians.
The Edward College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for physicians.