Analyzes Change and Program Analysis
AIMEC collects data and information as a program-based analysis in order to change learner competence and performance as well as their patient outcomes as a direct result of our program of activities and educational interventions.
Data collected supports an analysis of change in learners’ competence, performance and patient outcomes. AIMEC collected data analyses changes in educational interventions, including changes in learners’ competence AND/OR performance, AND/OR the impact on patients.
As the ACCME defines "competence" as "knowing how" to do something. Knowledge, in the presence of experience and judgment, is translated into ability or “competence” that has not yet been put into practice. It is what a professional would do in practice if given the opportunity. Whereas the skills, abilities, and strategies one actually implements in practice is "performance".
AIMEC obtains the data upon which to base an analysis and changes achieved in learners by asking questions of learners. AIMEC will ask 2-part questions at the point of completing activities to be used to obtain data related to change in competence.
An example AIMEC question is as follows: Based on your participation in this activity, do you intend to do anything differently in your practice? If yes, what?
This gives the learner an opportunity to articulate a specific change in practice.
The learners’ answers to the “If yes, what?” question would be the data indicating specific changes the learners said they would make in practice.
AIMEC uses case-based questions specifically designed to elicit information about
strategies acquired by learners that they could implement in practice would also produce
acceptable data for evaluating change in learner competence.
For example, based on your participation in this activity, are you doing anything differently in your practice? If yes, what?
If AIMEC learners’ answers “If yes, what?” the question would be the data indicating specific changes the learners said they had made in practice.
AIMEC uses this data and information accross all activities to analyzes change, analyze the data and come to a conclusion as to whether its activities had the impact on changes in learners' competence, performance and/or patients outcomes that they were designed to change, and, for Program Analysis, analyze the data and come to a conclusion on the degree to which the expected results component of its CME mission has been met through the conduct of your CME activities/educational interventions.
Data collected supports an analysis of change in learners’ competence, performance and patient outcomes. AIMEC collected data analyses changes in educational interventions, including changes in learners’ competence AND/OR performance, AND/OR the impact on patients.
As the ACCME defines "competence" as "knowing how" to do something. Knowledge, in the presence of experience and judgment, is translated into ability or “competence” that has not yet been put into practice. It is what a professional would do in practice if given the opportunity. Whereas the skills, abilities, and strategies one actually implements in practice is "performance".
AIMEC obtains the data upon which to base an analysis and changes achieved in learners by asking questions of learners. AIMEC will ask 2-part questions at the point of completing activities to be used to obtain data related to change in competence.
An example AIMEC question is as follows: Based on your participation in this activity, do you intend to do anything differently in your practice? If yes, what?
This gives the learner an opportunity to articulate a specific change in practice.
The learners’ answers to the “If yes, what?” question would be the data indicating specific changes the learners said they would make in practice.
AIMEC uses case-based questions specifically designed to elicit information about
strategies acquired by learners that they could implement in practice would also produce
acceptable data for evaluating change in learner competence.
For example, based on your participation in this activity, are you doing anything differently in your practice? If yes, what?
If AIMEC learners’ answers “If yes, what?” the question would be the data indicating specific changes the learners said they had made in practice.
AIMEC uses this data and information accross all activities to analyzes change, analyze the data and come to a conclusion as to whether its activities had the impact on changes in learners' competence, performance and/or patients outcomes that they were designed to change, and, for Program Analysis, analyze the data and come to a conclusion on the degree to which the expected results component of its CME mission has been met through the conduct of your CME activities/educational interventions.