Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME)

Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME) was introduced by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 2005. It is a process designed as a nationally standardized CME format to help healthcare professionals evaluate their current practice and improve their clinical processes and patient outcomes.

In this Performance Improvement CME activity, you will evaluate the performance in your own practice, develop and implement a plan for improving performance, and then re-evaluate your practice's performance on the selected quality measures. The program is a 3 stage process:

Stage A: Learning from Current Practice Performance Assessment (up to 5 hours of credit)

Stage B: Learning From the Application of Performance Improvement to Patient Care (up to 5 hours of credit)

Stage C: Learning From Evaluation of the Performance Improvement Effort (up to 5 hours of credit)

Bonus Credit: Physicians completing, in sequence, all three Stages (A through C) of a structured PI activity may receive an additional five (5) credits, for a maximum of twenty (20) credits per activity.