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Yale CME
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MissionPurposeThe mission of the Yale School of Medicine's Center for Continuing Medical Education is to advocate and support the continuing professional development of health care professionals. Through its Center for Continuing Medical Education, and the physicians of Yale, the Medical School offers a full range of evidence-based educational programs based on adult learning principles, that enhance the practitioner's knowledge base, provide updates and review, and expand professional skills. Target AudienceIn the tradition of the Yale School of Medicine as a world-class institution, the target audience of Yale CME includes the broad range of the medical profession, from full-time practitioners to academic physicians with special interests in research and teaching, as well as other allied health care professionals locally, nationally and internationally. Content AreasThe activities sponsored by Yale CME include primary care, specialty, and subspecialty topics in the field of medicine. The scope of these activities involves
the body of knowledge and skills generally recognized and accepted by the profession as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine,
and the provision of health care to the public. ActivitiesThe proffered live activities of Yale CME include specialties in clinical departments including: Cardiology; Diagnostic Radiology; Gastroenterology; Infectious Diseases; Medical Oncology; Nephrology; Neurology; NeuroOncology; Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Opthalmology; Orthopaedics; Psychiatry; Pulmonary and Critical Care; and Surgery, and through its accredited Grand Rounds, topics in each specialty. ResultsYale CME provides unbiased educational activities, presented by renowned Yale and visiting faculty, that are intended to enhance physician and other health professionals' performance within their clinical practices. Outcomes measures assess how these programs influence behavior for the purpose of improving health outcomes and patient care. About Yale CMEThe Yale University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education as a provider of continuing medical education. The school offers a variety of continuing education programs directed both at practicing physicians and at physicians whose interest is in the basic sciences. Courses offered include: (a) review courses and symposia designed to present advances in the diagnosis and management of selected disorders of general interest; (b) courses of interest to physicians in a particular specialty; and (c) courses dealing with matters of public health and its administration, developed by the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. (d) an Online Learning Program to view online grand rounds, live conferences and review newsletters. Additionally, the regularly scheduled conferences (grand rounds) of the Yale-New Haven Medical Center are open to all physicians. The School of Medicine also facilitates the presentation of continuing education programs for allied health personnel. Also available for physicians and certain other health-care workers is the Diabetes Newsletter/Test Program. See CME Publications & Tests for information.
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