Needs Assessment Guidelines
Needs assessment is the systematic process of gathering
information and using it to determine instructional solutions to close
the gap between
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Identification and analysis of CME needs provide the basis for developing
educational objectives. The planning committee should ask the following
questions:
- How prevalent is the need among the target audience?
- How many different assessment sources indicated this need?
- How significantly will the unfulfilled need hinder health
care delivery?
- How directly is the need related to actual physician performance?
- How likely is it that a CME activity will improve practice
behavior?
- Are sufficient resources available to effectively address
this topic?
- How receptive will the target audience be to a session on
this topic?
Types of needs assessment to submit with application
- Inferred needs which may be derived from the following:
- New methods of diagnosis or treatment
- Availability of new medication(s) or indication(s)
- Development of new technology
- Input from experts regarding advances in medical knowledge
- Acquisition of new facilities or equipment
- Legislative, regulatory, or organizational changes effecting
patient care
- Verbalized needs and interests which may be derived
from the following:
- Requests submitted on participants' activity evaluation forms
- Formal surveys of potential participants (mail and Internet-based)
- Informal comments
- Patient problem inventories compiled by potential participants
- Consensus of faculty members within a department or service
area
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Proven needs which are based on objective external data
sources. These needs may be derived from the following:
- Epidemiological data
- Quality assurance/audit data
- Re-credential review
- Morbidity/Mortality
- Statistics Infection control data
- Surgical procedures statistics
- Professional society requirements
- Journal articles/literature citations
- News media
For more information, contact:
Karen Bertke, CME Program Administrator
E-mail: karen.bertke@wright.edu
Phone: 937-775-3435
Fax: (937) 775-3256
Mailing address:
Office of Faculty and Clinical Affairs
Boonshoft School of Medicine
Wright State University
P.O. Box 927
Dayton, OH 45401-0927
Location: University Park
3817 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Fairborn, OH 45324
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