Accreditation services
Value and service to Mass General Brigham enterprise
Purpose
- Support Mass General Brigham clinicians, researchers & interprofessional teams in their efforts to improve care through lifelong learning, & quality improvement
- Our activities are designed to improve clinical practice, clinical decision-making,
patient outcomes and safety, and to advance professional development. - Provide a sense of community and belonging as we learn and make quality improvements together
Accreditation for in-hospital series and courses for Mass General Brigham staff
- Live activity planned as a series with multiple, ongoing sessions, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
- Planned by and presented to Mass General Brigham professional staff.
- Series directors may elect to allow attendees from outside our system.
- Examples: MGH Medical Grand Rounds, MGB Neurology Grand Rounds, BWH Medical Grand Rounds, NWH Medical Grand Rounds, Salem
Hospital Medical Grand Rounds - Mass General Brigham employees: Click here to view all in-hospital series. You must be logged in to view.
- Learning management system makes it easy for attendees to record attendance and track credits claimed.
- We approve accreditation for in-hospital series in the spring, for the start of each new academic year. Series can begin in either July or September
- Currently, we are accrediting 160+ series across the system
Courses can be held for a small group or an entire hospital. Formats include, in-person, virtual, enduring, simulation, and adaptive learning.
Courses may use a blended model, with some live and some on-demand elements.
Accreditation of Mass General Brigham courses helps further teaching and quality improvement goals at sites throughout our system and beyond.
Examples of Mass General Brigham internal courses include:
- Ending Racism: Offered by HR to the entire workforce, accredited for providers
- Upstander Training: Offered by HR and Office of the CMO to all managers in the system, accredited for 10 professions
- Brigham leadership program
- Patient experience forums
- Serious illness conversation training
- Quality and safety symposium
Maintenance of Certification
Mass General Brigham Continuing Professional Development is the system-wide sponsor for the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Portfolio Program. We help Mass General Brigham-affiliated physicians and physician assistants fulfill ABMS Maintenance of Certification (ABMS MOC®) Improvement in Medical Practice (Part IV) requirements. Our goal is for our providers to receive credit for work that is meaningful to them.
We support awarding MOC credits for
- Authors of Quality Improvement Posters * New 2022
- Providers who did work related to COVID-19 in 2022
- Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Leaders * New 2022
- Providers who use educational activities to improve practice * New 2022
- Traditional Quality Improvement
LicenSure – Mass General Brigham’s physician licensing portal
One-stop-shop for Mass General Brigham physicians to fulfill their licensing requirements.
Mass General Brigham Physicians can use this site to:
- Review the required steps for license renewal
- View the list of continuing education requirements
- Complete required continuing education activities
- Get a copy of their Mass General Brigham CME Transcript
- Upload required documents to Dropbox
- Review FAQs about relicensing requirements
Expansion efforts
Expand Grand Rounds to community hospitals
We are working on making it easier for our community hospitals to access in-hospital series produced at the Academic Medical Centers. We are piloting access to mutually agreed upon in-hospital series to one or two community hospitals.
Alumni course offerings
We are collaborating with the Alumni Association to offer Mass General Brigham courses to alumni from our residencies and fellowships. We created a
webpage dedicated to the Alumni Association project. The page includes information about educational offerings that the alumni can participate in. Here is the link.
For more information about our expansion efforts, email us at partnerscpd@partners.org.
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