NFID
Navigator

Continuing Medical Education (CME) Mission Statement

Purpose

The CME mission of NFID is to advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases through the continuing professional education of physicians and other healthcare professionals with responsibility for, or special interest in, infectious diseases.

Content areas

Content will focus on the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases. Needs assessment data from various sources, including but not limited to surveys, published research, public health policy, and expert opinions determine the content focus.

All activities will present scientifically rigorous and evidence-based content without commercial bias. CME activities will be planned, implemented, and evaluated based on principles of effective adult learning and will adhere to the ACCME's Essential Areas and Elements.

Target audience

The intended target audience includes licensed physicians and allied health professionals from a variety of clinical, academic, and research settings. Our multidisciplinary constituency is primarily in the United States, but NFID is also committed to ensuring professionals throughout the world are able to access and utilize our CME activities.

Types of activities

NFID utilizes the instructional methods and media best suited to meeting the objectives of the specific educational activity. Formats include:

  • Live conferences and symposia with didactic presentations, panel and roundtable discussions, small group interactions, case studies, and audience participation.
  • Self-directed enduring materials in print and electronic format.
  • Internet-based activities, including live and archived courses.

Non-educational resources designed to support these CME activities include a continually updated website with focused disease-specific content; Factsheets for physicians and the lay public; the Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition; monographs, calls to action, and white papers; and patient education materials.

Expected results

NFID's CME program is designed to achieve the following outcomes:

  • Participants will have increased competence through the acquisition of new strategies to address the prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment of infectious diseases in their clinical, academic, or research setting.
  • Participants will utilize competencies acquired through educational activities to confirm current practice or make changes in practice.

NFID is committed to assessing the results of each CME activity through post-activity evaluations, participant self-assessment of learning, and faculty evaluations of the activity. NFID also conducts an annual CME survey of all program participants. These data are used to continuously improve future activities and the overall CME program.

Approved by the NFID CME Committee, December 2007