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Educational Planning: Needs Assessment

Element 2.1:

The provider must use a planning process(es) that links identified educational needs with a desired result in its provision of all CME activities.

Element 2.2:

The provider must use needs assessment data to plan CME activities.

1. A learning needs survey is conducted annually to identify educational needs perceived by the area physicians as well as to evaluate performance of the continuing medical education component of the medical school. This data is then summarized and distributed to all medical departments to use in the planning of their educational activities.

2. Identified needs from multiple sources are used to initiate and support the planning process. Need documentation is the first step in planning a CME activity.

3. Each source of need requires a supporting document to use in setting methodology, design, objectives, and evaluation of the CME activity.

4. The CME committee, in determining the potential value of the activity, reviews needs assessment data.

5. Community physicians are surveyed via the regional health care facilities to determine learning needs and to determine the best vehicle for meeting these needs.

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