Melanie Conrardy and Jill Glaspey who are both with the company Educational Measures provide a primer on basic statistics we all can use in evaluating our CME activities. The information we talk about appeared in an e-publication from Educational Measures called "Collaborate and Connect”. 15 minutes.

Julie White and Zara Zisblatt at Boston Universty share ideas about things we should think about doing and not doing when engaging in PI CME activities. These are lessons learned from their pioneering work in the field.

Vicki Street, Director of Education at the National Committee on Quality Assurance shares some information about the NCQA and a special PI CME project focused on pediatric ADHD.

Beth Mullikin, MS at the University of Wisconsin, shares some practical principles that are emerging from the work that she and her colleagues involved in the CS2Day project are doing in PI CME activities.

Shelly Rodrigues, CAE, Deputy Executive Director at the California Academy of Family Physicians and Executive Director of the CAFP Foundaton shares some lessons learned from engaging in PI CME initiaitves.

Bob Addleton, EdD talks with me about some of the language of quality, specifically the Seven Basic Tools of Quality. Bob is Executive Vice President at the Physicians Institute for Excellence in Medicine. Holding a Green Belt in Six Sigma and having worked in quality improvement in healthcare settings makes Bob uniquely qualified to talk with us on this topic.

There are several ways to approach PI CME activities. Beth Mullikin, MS, an Associate Director of the Office of Continuing Professional Developement in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin shares with us an emerging model she and several of her colleagues have developed. I hope you find it helpful.

Mike Speight, BS, Senior Director at the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care shares some insights on how CME and Quality/Performance Improvement can work together to accomplish some common goals.

Shelly Rodrigues, CAE, Deputy Executive Director at the California Academy of Family Physicians and Executive Director of the California Academy of Family Physicians Foundation talks with us about "Collaboratories" as an approach to quality improvment in healthcare. (About 11 minutes)