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Volume 24 (1)
Volume 24, Issue 1, Winter 2004
J Contin Educ Health Prof 2004; 24(1):57-63.
INNOVATIONS IN CONTINUING EDUCATION
Using Baldrige criteria to meet or exceed Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards
James C. Leist, EdD
Stuart C. Gilman, MD, MPH
Robert J. Cullen, PhD
Jack Sklar
A b s t r a c t
Continuing medical education providers accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) may apply organizational assessment strategies beyond the ACCME Essential Areas, Elements, and Criteria. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program offers an organizational assessment strategy commonly used in business, health care, and education settings. An analysis of both standards pointed out useful associations between the ACCME Essential Areas and the Baldrige National Quality Program Education Criteria (2003). Including leadership, governance, and social responsibility, the Baldrige Education Criteria provide a more comprehensive organizational assessment and stronger emphasis on a wider variety of results. The present analysis suggests that a continuing medical education provider could meet, and possibly exceed, the ACCME standards by applying the Baldrige Education Criteria in a "self-study" process to define, measure, monitor, and document fundamental organizational responsibilities and performance.
Lessons for Practice
- The Malcolm Baldrige National Award for Quality is a public domain organizational assessment approach.
- The Baldrige Educational Criteria focus on organizational performance and results.
- The Baldrige Educational Criteria can be used to provide structure for a self-assessment and reporting process that can meet broad organizational goals as well as meet and possibly exceed the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education accreditation standards.
MeSH Terms: Accreditation; Education, Medical, Continuing; Leadership
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