The Spokane County Medical Society's CME Committee functions in a large tertiary care medical community. This community is generally self-sustaining in terms of expertise in specialty and subspecialty areas.

 

SCOPE: It is the scope of the Committee to initiate, evaluate and approve Category I CME suitable to the needs of the majority of the membership. The needs of the medical community will determine the scope of our work.

 

Additionally, the Committee wishes to address the regional needs of physicians in the Inland Northwest and intends to review for joint sponsorship programs offered both in Spokane and Eastern Washington.

 

GOAL: In order to accomplish our mission the goal of our Committee will be to act as a local resource for initiating, evaluating and approving ongoing quality continuing medical education that reflects local concerns

and issues for primary care and specialty care physicians. Our intent is to provide continuing medical education programs for physicians in order to gain new knowledge, exchange expertise, and to increase competence so as to ultimately improve a physicians ability to provide the highest quality of patient care.

 

 

CHARACTERISTICS OF POTENTIAL PARTICIPANTS: The target audience for our programs are the physician members of the Spokane County Medical Society. We also invite other physicians and allied health care professionals to participate in these programs.

 

ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES PROVIDED: The Spokane County Medical Society works with its members to determine need and develop quality programs that will meet this need. We will also provide coordinating services to institutions, groups or individuals who seek to do the same. Furthermore, the Committee will serve as a joint sponsor for Category I programs in and around the Inland Northwest, when requested, if the programs meet our predetermined needs or an emergency need and are submitted in an appropriate fashion and meet the essentials for continuing medical education