Time to Bring the Patient's Voice to CME

Continuing medical education participants regularly hear from experts in disease states and therapies—but rarely from the actual patient. Here’s what patients can bring to the CME table.

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Time to Bring the Patient's Voice to CME

Wouldn’t it be great have docs at your continuing medical education activities raving about how lucky they were to have come to your session, and how tragic the missed opportunities were for those who weren’t there? The one thing that they’ve seen push it over that threshold is having a person who lives every day with the disease under discussion share the stage, said presenters at a session on patient-centric education at this year’s Alliance for the Continuing Education of Healthcare Professionals, held earlier this year in National Harbor, Md.
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In a wide-ranging, often heartfelt discussion, the presenters—Steve Binder, president, FACTORx; Derek Dietze, MA FACEHP, president, Improve CME LLC; and Suzanne Schrandt, JD, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute—explored how the Rheumatoid Arthritis: Primary Care Initiative for Improved Diagnosis and Outcomes, or RAPID, continuing medical education initiative has evolved to include more of the patient perspective.

One of the most striking moments of the session was the description of how a simple conversation with a patient during a slide review turned into a message that shaped the initiative for the next six years.

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