Physician engagement is sometimes cited by organizations as a challenge on its path to implementing a successful practice change initiative.
Below are five tips for engaging physicians using continuing medical education (CME):
Identify the goals of your organization/physician leaders and align education with those goals.- Understand the physician population you are trying to engage and select formats that appeal to them. Buy-in is achieved best when the knowledge is coming from a reputable colleague. You can also create incentive programs (i.e. gift cards, premium discounts or credits, department participation awards/contests, poster display of power users/top performers in break rooms, etc.) to increase participation.
- Provide leadership training to create understanding of the value of CME while reinforcing the importance of leadership modeling.
- Align education with state-based CME requirements to allow physicians to collect CME hours specific to the requirements for relicensure in their state.
- Lastly, measure the change. The real power of education is through observed change.
