Accredited Continuing Education

With over 20 years of experience in the design of continuing education programming, Ciné-Med unites the latest technology with expert faculty resources to provide the planning, development, and on-site management for workshops, multimedia instruction, hands-on trainings, and interactive media programs.

Ciné-Med is accredited by the following organizations to provide continuing education:

• PHYSICIAN Continuing Medical Education
  Ciné-Med is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
• NURSING Continuing Education
  Ciné-Med is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).
• PHARMACIST Continuing Education
  Ciné-Med is approved by the Accreditation Council on Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of Continuing Pharmacy Education.

Ciné-Med also offers continuing education opportunities for other healthcare audiences such as surgical technologists, radiologists, and emergency medical technicians. Please inquire regarding other disciplines of accredited continuing medical education.

Mission Statement

Ciné-Med, Inc. is committed to develop, manage, and deliver the highest quality education for physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals. Ciné-Med strives to improve and enhance health care, through educational opportunities, so that physicians, nurses and other health care professionals may maintain and continuously improve their competencies to provide the highest quality of health care to their patients. It is Ciné-Med's intent to become a leader in professional medical education by maintaining the integrity and availability of its programs by adhering to the highest standards of adult education principles and theory. Within the context of its mission statement, Ciné-Med is dedicated to the following goals:

• Provide continuing education based on identification of needs and objectives to improve the knowledge, skills, and abilities of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals.
• Provide continuous assessments of the results and outcomes of continuing education programs sponsored by Ciné-Med, using a variety of assessment tools for use in the planning of future educational programs.
• Demonstrate expertise in course management and planning of continuing education events.
• Ensure the quality of educational programs by adhering to Essential Areas and Elements established by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME); the Scope and Standards of Practice for Nursing Professional Development enforced by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Accreditation Council on Pharmacy Education's (ACPE) Criteria for Quality and Interpretive Guidelines.

Content

The scope of Ciné-Med sponsored programs and events will encompass basic and clinical science, practice management, and medical ethics, through self-funding, commercial support, joint sponsorship, and directly sponsored activities.

Target Audience

Educational activities will be directed toward audiences comprised of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals.

Types of Activities

Educational activities offered by Ciné-Med will be implemented using techniques such as, didactic presentations, live conferences and workshops, symposiums, and enduring materials including self-contained home study, print media, new electronic media, video, and Internet applications.

Expected Results of the Program

Educational activities developed by Ciné-Med are intended to enhance physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals growth and performance in cognitive, procedural, and humanistic areas for the purpose of improving the quality of patient care. Ciné-Med is committed to evaluating and assessing the results of its educational activities by measuring participants anticipated and actual changes in medical knowledge and practice, through qualitative and quantitative methods.

During the next five years the following goals will be pursued:

• Develop innovative educational programs based on state-of-the-art technologies used to design, implement, assess, and evaluate continuing medical education activities.
• Provide performance improvement through principles of continuing quality assessment.

By providing quality education to physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals, Ciné-Med's continuing education program will be consistent with the corporate mission of addressing unmet medical needs while providing health care solutions that enable people to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives.

Reviewed and Approved by the following CE Committee Members:

• Kevin McGovern - President
• Brian Mozelak, MA - CME Director
• Donald Brown, MD - Chairman, CME Committee
• Robin Guisti, RN, MSN - Nurse Planner