VelocityCare Report to the Community Give to Carilion Clinic

I. CME Program Mission


  • Carilion Clinic’s CME Program believes that continuing medical education favorably impacts the quality of healthcare and serves as a mechanism for continuous improvement.
  • The purpose and mission of Carilion Clinic's CME Program is to provide quality continuing medical education that introduces new technology, educational techniques, and updated information that serves to increase knowledge and improve clinical skills.
  • The scope of topics is necessarily broad to reach primary care physicians, specialists and sub-specialists. Participants are from many small, rural hospitals, larger secondary hospitals, regional medical centers and tertiary care providers in southwest Virginia.
  • Activities range from one-hour weekly conferences (Medical Grand Rounds) to one and two day conferences.
  • As a major educational institution in western Virginia, The Carilion Clinic’s CME Program feels an obligation to encourage smaller hospitals and medical societies without their own CME accreditation to jointly sponsor CME within the Essential Areas and Policies of The Medical Society of Virginia.
  • Through collaborative efforts the Carilion Clinic’s CME Program strives to continuously design and implement innovative educational and non-educational interventions in order to improve physician knowledge, competence, performance and therefore patient outcomes.

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