JCME/CE and Curriculum Advisory Boards
PER is dedicated to promoting excellence in the delivery of patient care by providing quality educational opportunities. With an emphasis on oncology, our goal is to maintain and improve the competence and performance of multidisciplinary health care teams through effective continuing medical education (CME). We are assisted in this mission by CME/CE and Core Curriculum Advisory Boards. These boards provide input on educational needs and activities aimed at providing a multidisciplinary cancer care team with up-to-date information on evidence-based practice and emerging diagnostics and therapeutics in oncology.
This board focuses on the quality and effectiveness of PER's overall program as well as compliance with CME accreditation and regulatory issues. It comprises a minimum of 6 members, including, but not limited to, course directors, faculty/authors, community oncologists, oncology nurses, oncology pharmacists, legal/ethical counsel, and patient advocates.
Responsibilities include:
Performing annual evaluations of the overall program
Advising on educational needs
Reviewing evaluation data and making recommendations on current and new activities
Assuring regulatory compliance with all applicable agencies and rules
Participating in the CME reaccreditation process
These boards are formed based on disease type, eg, breast, thoracic, GU/GYN, hematologic malignancies. Their purpose is to advise PER on the content and format of the educational activities, strategies for continual improvement, and innovation in teaching techniques. The boards primarily include active PER course directors and faculty who are experts in clinical care and/or research in oncology subspecialties.
Responsibilities for each assigned disease type include:
Advising on unmet educational needs
Reviewing evaluation data and recommending revisions to current activities
Proposing new activities and innovative formats
Recommending faculty and faculty development strategies
Assisting with learning outcome measures