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Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) www.accme.org   Alliance for Continuing Medical Education (ACME) www.acme-assn.org American Medical Association (AMA) www.ama-assn.org Texas Medical Association (TMA) www.texmed.org American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) www.aafp.org   American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) www.abms.org Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) www.ahrq.gov       Click here for additional AHRQ information.   American College of Physicians (ACP) www.acponline.org Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) www.acgme.org   Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) www.iom.edu  (Quality Chasm report – national advisor on health issues)   Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) www.fsmb.org   Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) http://oig.hhs.gov   Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of American (PhRMA) Code on Interactions With Healthcare Professionals http://www.phrma.org/files/2004-01-19.391.pdf   Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) Code of Ethics for Interactions With Health Care Professionals http://www.advamed.org/publicdocs/coe.html Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) www.ihi.org/ihi National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) http://www.ncqa.org/Programs/HEDIS/   National Quality Measures Clearinghouse www.qualitymeasures.gov   Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement www.physicianconsortium.org   The Joint Commission (formerly known as JCAHO) http://www.jointcommission.org/   Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) www.com.hhs.org Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) www.dshs.state.tx.us TMF Health Quality Institute www.tmf.org   American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP) www.abqaurp.org   ADDITIONAL REFERENCES Mazmanian PE, Davis DA. Continuing medical education and the physician as a learner. JAMA. 2002;288:1057-1060.   Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies. Fact Sheet. AHRQ Publication No. 04-P014, March 2004. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.  http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epc/ggapfact.htm   Barnes B, Davis D, Fox R. The Continuing Professional Development of Physicians: From Research to Practice (2003) American Medical Association.   Assessing Scope of Practice in HealthCare Delivery: Critical Questions in Assuring Public Access and Safety, Federation of State Medical Boards, 2005.   Davis DA. CME and the pharmaceutical industry: two worlds, three views, four steps. CMAJ. 2004 Jul 20;171(2):149-50   Miller, G. The assessment of clinical skills/competence/ performance. Academic Medicine. 65(9):S63-7, 1990   Sanford, B(Ed). Strategies for maintaining professional competence: A manual for professional associations and faculty. Toronto, Canada: Canadian Scholars Press, Inc, 1989   Wenger, Etienne. Communities of Practice: Learning as a Social System, Systems Thinker, [June 1998]   Schwartzberg JG, VanGeest JB, Wang CC. Understanding Health Literacy: Implications for Medicine and Public Health (2004). American Medical Association Press, Chicago   Bennett. NL, et al. – Continuing medical education: a new vision of the professional development of physicians. Academic Medicine. 2000:75:12:9-14   Kristofco R, Shewchuk R, Casebeer L, Bellande B, Bennett N. Attributes of an ideal continuing medical education institution identified through nominal group technique. J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2005   Havens, C, Bellman P, Jayachandran K, Waters S. Measuring Higher-Level Outcomes. Alliance for CME Almanac. 2005 Oct; 27(10):1-4   Kirkpatrick DL, Kirkpatirct JD. Transferring Learning to Behavior: Using the Four Levels to Improve Performance. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers: 2005   Accreditation for Learning and Change, K. Regnier et al, JCEHP, September 2005 * Contact Theresa Hartley at thartley@bcm.edu     to recommend additional information for this page. TACME Homepage            Back to Top Copyright © 1998-2008 Texas Alliance for Continuing Medical Education (TACME), Inc. All rights reserved.  Revised: October 13, 2008.