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Education Initiatives
Projects In Knowledge’s mission statement is broad, encompassing its overall clinical education program goals. To help it achieve more focused goals unique to individual specialty areas, Projects In Knowledge has developed Education Initiatives in five areas: gastroenterology, infectious disease, oncology, neurology, and psychiatry. These Initiatives provide the strategic direction which enables us to maximize the educational benefits we deliver to our audiences.
The development of our Education Initiatives exemplifies superior insight, vision, and creativity. Each Initiative features a number of key components:
- Large advisory board of constituents: clinicians, researchers, and decision-makers representing diverse practice settings, affiliations, and geographic regions in the US and abroad
- Exhaustive needs assessment surveying which incorporates the perspectives of specialty and primary care physicians and allied healthcare providers, professional societies and organizations, patients, and care providers
- Presentation of multidisciplinary perspectives addressing critical clinical and care delivery issues
- Quantitative and qualitative outcomes measurement of the impact of our education programming on clinical practice
- Patient outcomes measurement related to the education we provide clinicians
- Identification of trends and changes in practice over time based on research data from surveys of our constituents
Where Do We Stand?
Projects In Knowledge’s Approach to
Quality and Integrity in Medical Education Content
Projects In Knowledge’s noted achievement in medical education is the result of five simple things:
- Setting high standards for content quality and integrity
- Engaging top experts to develop curricula and courses
- Providing rigorous oversight from multiple stakeholder groups
- Securing faculty whose unique perspectives enhance the course content
- Confirming the achievement of standards by measuring the results
Projects In Knowledge’s standards are framed by its comprehensive CME Mission Statement. This statement is a broad expression of Projects In Knowledge’s vision, mission, and goals. It is explicit, setting forth a clear definition of expected results. Projects In Knowledge carries out its mission through its Educational Initiatives, which provide overarching goals for its curricula in each disease state and therapeutic category in which it works. These goals, established by a multidisciplinary advisory panel representing diverse perspectives and opinions and reviewed by Projects In Knowledge’s CME advisors, provide the rationale for each course Projects In Knowledge offers. Then, Projects In Knowledge engages faculty panels of the nation’s top experts led by luminaries in the field to develop course content through a rigorous process of discussion, debate, and critical appraisal. Developed like courses in an academic setting, which must go through detailed review by an institutional panel before being admitted into the curriculum, Projects In Knowledge’s courses reflect the same deliberate and systematic process.
Thus, each course that Projects In Knowledge offers its physician learners is part of a standardized curriculum developed and endorsed by an expert faculty panel with rigorous oversight by its CME advisors. In practice, this means that every Projects In Knowledge course, regardless of the faculty presenter, represents the well-considered opinion of a distinguished body of experts. While individual faculty members are an integral part of Projects In Knowledge’s educational enterprise, their unique perspectives enhance rather than define course content. Through this alignment of interests and endeavors, each stakeholder in Projects In Knowledge’s educational enterprise, from advisors through faculty and ultimately, to its learners, can enjoy incomparable medical education content quality and integrity.
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