Content Areas

The Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program ensures that the education is fair and balanced and that any clinical content presented supports safe, effective, and evidence-based patient care.

Activities accredited by the CME program address content areas which are based on identified educational gaps of healthcare professionals while emphasizing the following:

• Clinical diagnosis using scientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, with the education promoting recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have benefits that outweigh risks or are known to be effective in the treatment of patients
• Updates on the latest evidence-based research and techniques and that all scientific research referred to, reported, or used in accredited education in support or justification of a patient care recommendation conforms to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation without advocating for, or promoting, practices that are not, or not yet, adequately based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning
• Topics affecting the clinical practice of medicine and healthcare delivery systems (e.g. ethical, socioeconomic, political, and legislative issues)
• Current issues affecting the practice of medicine in the United States

Planning or delivery of content could:

• Incorporate members of inter-professional teams, students of the health professions, patients, and/or public health entities
• Involve collaboration with other organizations to more effectively address population health issues
• Result in engagement of the CME program in CME research and scholarship

These definitions were provided by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA). For a comprehensive glossary of terms and definitions, please visit the ACCME website.