The mission of the Academy for Healthcare Education, Inc., (AHECME) is to develop and implement high-quality, innovative educational programs that enhance the knowledge of the medical community in order to positively impact the delivery of medical care. The Academy for Healthcare Education, Inc., provides certified education in various therapeutic areas utilizing many different delivery modalities in order to achieve this mission.
Live Activities
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Grand rounds—regularly scheduled 1-hour meetings hosted by hospitals or academic centers. The Academy for Healthcare Education, Inc., works with the host to provide a trained faculty member to deliver a presentation on a predetermined topic.
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Regional meetings—typically 2 to 4 hours in length with 2 to 4 national thought leaders as faculty. The regional meetings target an audience of 25 to 100 participants and provide, in addition to the CME activity, a meal and break.
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Local meetings—typically 1 hour in length with 1 local or regional faculty member. The local meetings target an audience of 10 to 25 participants and provide a meal, in addition to the CME activity.
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National association meeting symposia—live educational activities usually associated with, though typically not officially sanctioned by, a national specialty association. The Academy for Healthcare Education, Inc., has extensive experience with satellites in many therapeutic areas. Examples follow:
- American Association of Family Practitioners (AAFP)
- American College of Cardiology (ACC)
- American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
- American College of Physicians (ACP)
- American Society of Internal Medicine (ASIM)
- American College of Surgeons (ACS)
- American Diabetes Association (ADA)
- American Heart Association (AHA)
- American Pain Society (APS)
- American Society of Hematology (ASH)
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS)
- Chest Annual Meeting
- Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
- International Headache Congress (IHC)
- International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM)
- International Society for Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB)
- Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)
- Heart Rhythm Society (HRS)
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In addition, AHECME provides:
- Annual Dementia Congress (a 2-day conference for neurologists, psychiatrists, and PCPs)
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Enduring Activities
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In addition, we develop many enduring activities. Enduring materials are often developed based on the content of live activities in order to provide high-quality content to a broader audience and provide for target audiences’ various learning style preferences.
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- Monographs—typically 24 to 36 pages about 1 therapeutic topic with content and/or editorial reviews provided by national experts.
- Journal supplements—similar to monographs but with these significant differences: supplements are packaged and distributed with major medical journals and typically go through the journal’s peer-review process.
- CD-ROMs—typically provide 1 to 2 CME credits and are developed in an interactive format using content from the live program.
- Web-based activities—have been posted on numerous Web sites including ahecme.com, Medscape, and theheart.org.
- Archived audioconferences—similar to live audioconferences except that participants can dial into the audioconference any time 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the entire time frame that the audioconference is available, often 1 to 6 months. A live Q&A is not available in this format.
- Slide kits—PowerPoint presentations enhanced by speaker notes, references, and other instructional features and available as a certified activity, which can also be used in participants’ own future presentations.
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Company Ownership
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AHECME is owned by the holding company Communication Partners Group LLC. Communication Partners Group owns leading medical communication and education companies. These operating companies develop promotional medical communication programs for physicians, allied health-care professionals, and patients, as well as Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs for physicians that are developed by AHECME. Click here for more information on Communication Partners Group.
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