CME Program Mission

Mission Statement

Carilion Clinic's CME Program:

  • 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 serve 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.
  • The activities range from one-hour weekly conferences (Medical Grand Rounds) to one and two day conferences.
  • As a major educational institution in western Virginia, we feel an obligation to encourage smaller hospital and medical societies without their own CME accreditation to jointly sponsor CME within the Essential Areas and policies of The Medical Society of Virginia.
  • The Carilion Clinic’s CME Program through collaborative efforts strives to continuously design and implement innovative educational and non-educational interventions in order to increase physician knowledge, competence, performance or patient outcomes. We anticipate the physicians will report greater confidence in their approach to clinical problems or express their intent to change their behavior. We expect they will apply newly acquired strategies in their practice.  Evaluation within the setting of clinical practice, we expect performance parameters to show improvement or favorable impact on targeted patient outcomes to be demonstrated.

Carilion Clinic:

  • Carilion Clinic exists to improve the health of communities it serves.
  • Carilion Clinic's CME Program provides opportunities through continuing medical education for physicians to address the educational needs of physicians, and favorably impact the quality of healthcare in the communities it serves.

Educational Opportunities for Physicians at Carilion Clinic

Carilion Clinic has a long-standing tradition of providing high quality continuing medical education (CME) to physicians. Our team recognizes the importance of offering continuous learning opportunities to physicians throughout their careers. To this end, the Carilion Clinic’s CME Program provides educational offerings, introduces new technology, educational techniques and updated information so that physicians may maintain, improve and acquire new knowledge and skills. Ultimately, CME favorably impacts the quality of healthcare by serving as a mechanism for continuous improvement.

Accreditation

Carilion Clinic’s CME Program is accredited by the Medical Society of Virginia (MSV) to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. We offer a broad range of CME opportunities to reach primary care physicians, specialists and sub-specialists.

Requirements

Carilion Clinic and the Virginia State Board of Medicine requires certification of 60 hours every two years for license renewal; 30 hours must be AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ and the remaining 30 hours can be either Category 1 or Category 2.

Participation

Anyone can attend a CME educational interventional program, which range from one-hour weekly conferences to one and two day conferences. However, please keep in mind that CME is specifically designed for physicians and other ancillary healthcare personnel that are required to have CME for licensing. See the CME calendar for a listing of current offerings.

Application

Please contact Carilion Clinic's CME Program if you are planning an educational intervention and would like to receive AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. The lead-time for turning in a completed application to the CME Office is two months. See the CME application under Forms for more information.

Cost

Carilion employed physicians may attend all educational activities at no cost. For non-Carilion physicians, most one-hour activities are free and major one/two day activities usually involve a minimal cost.

Our Team

Paul Dallas, MD, FACP, CCMEP
CME Director
Carilion Clinic’s CME Program
apdallas@carilionclinic.org

Linda Wells, CCMEP
CME Manager
Carilion Clinic’s CME Program
lmwells@carilionclinic.org

Paula Robertson, CCMEP
CME Coordinator
Carilion Clinic’s CME Program
pgrobertson@carilionclinic.org

Susan Curtiss, AS
CME Department Secretary II
Carilion Clinic’s CME Program
smcurtiss@carilionclinic.org

Mailing Address

Carilion Clinic’s CME Program
Crystal Spring Medical Office Building
2001 Crystal Spring Avenue, Suite 202
Roanoke, VA 24014
Phone: 540-981-8830
Fax: 540-985-5323