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Integrating Patient Advocates Into Continuing Professional Development: Overcoming Barriers and Enhancing Impact
education
Patient advocacy is central to modern healthcare, ensuring patient voices shape care decisions. In CPD, integrating patient advocates enhances education, improves provider communication and optimizes care outcomes. Despite these benefits, they...
Integrating Patient Advocates Into Continuing Professional Development: Overcoming Barriers and Enhancing Impact

By: Heather Ranels, CHCP, FACEHP

Episode 57 – Live From #Alliance25: Next-Generation Adaptive Learning in Continuing Education: The Impact of AI-Synthetic Humans
podcasts

In this episode of The Alliance Podcast, recorded live at the Alliance 2025 Annual Conference, Alliance Podcast Task Force member Andrea Zimmerman, EdD, CHCP, sits down with presenter Bretten Gordeau.

Episode 57 – Live From #Alliance25: Next-Generation Adaptive Learning in Continuing Education: The Impact of AI-Synthetic Humans

By: Andrea Zimmerman, EdD, CHCP; and Bretten Gordeau

Improve the ‘Half-life’ of Medical Information Through CPD: Adopting a Social Science Lens to CME/CE Design
education
Caroline O. Pardo, PhD, CHCP, FACEHP, explores how CPD programs can tap into social networks and connections to make knowledge sharing more effective and impactful, in order to improve the "half-life" decline in medical education...
Improve the ‘Half-life’ of Medical Information Through CPD: Adopting a Social Science Lens to CME/CE Design

By: Caroline O. Pardo, PhD, CHCP, FACEHP

Shifting Landscape and Necessary Disruption: A Time for Action
leadership
The article discusses the evolving landscape of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in healthcare, emphasizing the need to integrate technology, real-world data and personalized learning to adapt to the rapid changes in healthcare practices...
Shifting Landscape and Necessary Disruption: A Time for Action

By: Ginny Jacobs, PhD, M.Ed, MLS, CHCP, FSACME, FACEHP; and Pam McFadden, FACEHP, FSACME

Synergy in Certification: Strengthening Osteopathic Board Success
outcomes
The American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOOG) and the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AOBOG) have joined forces to tackle challenges in board certification and improve physician competence.
Synergy in Certification: Strengthening Osteopathic Board Success

By: Andrew Crim, M.Ed., CHCP, FACEHP; and Mary Cameron Tallman, MA

Enhancing the Value of CME/CPD Activities by Incorporating the Caregiver
leadership

One critical aspect of holistic, patient-centered healthcare is the integration of caregivers into the management plan.

Enhancing the Value of CME/CPD Activities by Incorporating the Caregiver

By: Cody Ortmann

#Alliance25 Preview: Shifts in the Healthcare Landscape and Implications for Evolving Continuing Education
education
The Alliance 2025 Annual Conference session entitled “Shifts in the Healthcare Landscape and Implications for Evolving Continuing Education”, which is being offered on Thursday, Jan. 9 from 3:45–5:15 p.m., is designed to provide...
#Alliance25 Preview: Shifts in the Healthcare Landscape and Implications for Evolving Continuing Education

By: Ginny Jacobs, PhD, M.Ed., MLS, CHCP, FSACME; John Ruggiero, PhD, MPA, BCS; Nancy Paynter, MBA; and Vince Loffredo, Ed.D.

Necessary Disruption 2.0: A Continuing Education Call to Action
leadership

Today, a tidal wave of new medical knowledge and technology, advanced educational tools and systemic healthcare changes are reshaping medicine and forcing a fundamental reckoning within healthcare education.

Necessary Disruption 2.0: A Continuing Education Call to Action

By: Ginny Jacobs, PhD, M.Ed., MLS, CHCP, FSACME; Brian McGowan, PhD; Nancy Paynter, MBA; Jas Chahal, PhD; John Ruggiero, PhD, MPA; Vince Loffredo, Ed.D.; Audrie Tornow, CHCP, FACEHP; Pam McFadden, FACEHP, FSACME

Addressing Mental Health and Well-being, One Supporter’s Perspective
leadership
Part of that educational focus on empathy and equitable care includes taking a holistic, patient-centered approach by addressing the well-being and mental health of patients. As a continuing medical education (CME)/continuing professional...
Addressing Mental Health and Well-being, One Supporter’s Perspective

By: Cody Ortmann

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outcomes
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outcomes
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