Affinity Health System - CME Needs Assessment Survey

CME Needs Assessment Survey

Thank you for providing feedback on Affinity Health System's CME program. This survey is designed to address programming for our Grand Rounds Series.

1. How often have you attended an AHS CME program in the past year?*

Regularly
Occasionally
Seldom
Never

2. What are the barriers preventing you from attending an AHS CME program?

Location
Time
Lack of relevant topics
Other

If you checked any of the options in question #2, please explain.

3. How do you use CME?*

Provide information to patients
Put new knowledge into practice
To stay up-to-date
Better understand indications/contraindications for new drug use
Share the information with colleagues
Other

If "other," please specify.

4. What practice gaps, if any, have you observed among healthcare providers? (A practice gap is the difference between actual and ideal performance. Professional practice gaps are measured in terms of: (1) Knowledge: being aware of what to do, (2) Competence: being able to apply knowledge, skills, and judgment in practice-knowing how to do something, and (3) Performance: having the ability to implement the strategy or skill-what one actually does.)

5. With question #4 in mind, please list at least three topics that you would like presented at a CME conference during the next year and why:

6. The CME Committee is interested in making CME opportunities available in the Northern Region. To that end, to assist the committee in planning, if CME opportunities were provided would you be more likely to attend if the CME was:

6:30 to 7:30 a.m.
Noon
6 to 7 p.m.
Other

If "other," please specify:

7. Which of the following criteria do you use in choosing a CME Course?* (check all that apply)

New diagnostic approaches
New therapeutic and management approaches
New drugs and/or drug therapies
New procedures
Learn about new topics in my specialty
Practice management
Risk management

8. Suggestions for improving our CME program:

If you are interested in presenting a Grand Rounds topic at Mercy Medical Center or St. Elizabeth Hospital, please provide your name and e-mail/phone.

Name:

E-mail or phone:

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