IMQ Announces 2006 Samuel R. Sherman CME Provider Awards
[Posted 05/25/06]

CMA’s Institute for Medical Quality announced the winners of the 2006 Samuel R. Sherman Awards at its annual CME provider conference May 6-7 in Los Angeles. The Sherman Awards honor outstanding achievement in continuing medical education.

St. Joseph Hospital of Orange received a Sherman Award for “Linkage Between Performance Improvement and CME” for designing, implementing, and reinforcing ways to improve compliance in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. The two-year initiative significantly improved inpatient outcomes.

Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles’s Center for Medical Education received a Sherman for “Innovation in Program Planning” for its interactive quality improvement workshop. The program brought together physicians, CME program chairs, and quality improvement delegates to plan CME programs designed to improve a number of clinical performance indicators. Follow-up studies found that patient care outcomes improved as a result of these CME activities.

Also receiving “Innovation in Program Planning” awards were Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, for its obesity symposium, and Northern Sierra Rural Health Network in Nevada City, for its innovative initiative to bring CME to rural physicians using videoconferencing and handheld computers. The award for “Outstanding CME Coordinator” went to Christine Edwards, Ph.D., director of education at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach.

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Contact: Sarah Shimer, 415/882-5182 or sshimer@imq.org.