Learning to Thrive at the 2023 ACCME Annual Meeting

       Key Takeaways:

1. Incorporating active learning (AL) strategies into your educational interventions may be easier than you realize. In fact, you may already be including AL. The first question to ask yourself is what your goal is. What are you wanting learners to get out of the activity? If the goal is knowledge, a didactic lecture with questions and answers is an appropriate AL strategy. Pick AL to meet the activity, not an activity that uses a specific AL strategy
2. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) takes work. It takes time. But there are easy places to start. What does your mission statement say? What about your policies? Do they promote DEI? Start there. That will provide a basis for your further efforts in DEI
3. Everyone struggles with low response rates to follow up surveys. A monetary incentive can increase that rate, but it all depends on the specialty and profession of the learner group as to how effective that incentive might be.
4. CME programs run the spectrum from large shops with a staff of 20 to those that are run by a single individual on a shoestring budget. While software exists that is specific for CME and other types of accredited health care continuing education, there are also tools built into the standard software you're probably already using – Microsoft or Google. These tools can help those tiny programs stay afloat without breaking the bank.