Within the Jesuit tradition of Creighton University, the mission of the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Division is to provide continuing medical education for physicians and other health care professionals. In the spirit of lifelong learning, the CME Division produces educational activities for the advancement of knowledge to help physicians and other healthcare professionals maintain and enhance the quality of their clinical practices, to assist health sciences scholars in becoming better teachers and researchers and to provide comprehensive, quality and compassionate patient care for diverse populations.
Mission Goals
Target Audience -- To provide relevant continuing medical education to physicians of all specialties and to other health care professionals. Although the primary target audience is the Creighton University health care community, our programs also target the larger health care community in Omaha, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Content Areas -- To provide continuing medical education based on identified educational needs and recent advances in biomedical sciences, clinical practice in allspecialties, health care policy, and ethics, for the purpose of positively impacting patient health.
Type of Activities -- To present regularly scheduled department conferences and grand rounds, and other conferences, seminars, and jointly sponsored activities that are local, national, and international in scope.
Expected Outcomes
To establish working relationships among Creighton University School of Medicine departments and Health Sciences schools, Alegent Creighton Health and area hospitals, and other health care organizations, in order to identify and offer continuing education activities.
To work closely with Alumni Relations to develop and promote CME activities for Creighton University School of Medicine alumni and for all Health Sciences schools, to offer at least one activity annually.
To consistently engage all Department Chairs, and others involved in CME, to establish an overall School of Medicine CME Strategic Plan that identifies and addresses the current continuing medical education needs of the School of Medicine.
To offer directly and jointly sponsored CME activities to enhance local, regional, national, and international recognition of Creighton University School of Medicine and its Departments and Centers.
To evaluate the results and outcomes of the sponsored activities and to use these data to enhance future activities.
To create professional and scholarly growth opportunities for the faculty, staff, house staff and students.