Physician CME Programs: American College of Physician Executives

Do you have trouble communicating the value of physician leadership to your board or members of your staff? Need an exciting speaker to reinvigorate your team?

Barry Silbaugh, MD, the CEO of the American College of Physician Executives, will be available for half-day presentations starting this fall. Silbaugh, who was named to Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare list for 2009 and 2010, can speak on several different topics, including:

From Autonomy to Teamwork: Influencing for Improved Patient Care
Physicians are trained to be autonomous in their thinking and actions. But health care is a “team sport” requiring the ability to be both a team member and a team leader. The skills required to produce highly reliable care involve understanding how each individual human being makes mistakes, how we can be accountable to ourselves and others for minimizing the opportunity for mistakes, and how to influence others to change when patient safety is at stake.

The New Business of Medicine: Clinical Leadership, Teamwork & High Reliability
Organizations are looking for physician leaders who can link clinical improvement to the bottom line, and help integrate the complex cultures of medicine and management. This session outlines how we must move from autonomy to teamwork, how to communicate effectively as team members, and how to change the culture to one of highly reliable and safe care for patients.

The cost to bring Silbaugh to your organization is $6,000 plus expenses for a half-day session.
Hurry — his schedule is already filling up quickly!

To learn more, contact Lisa Albrizzi at lalbrizzi@acpe.org or 1-800-562-8088.

Our award-winning faculty can conduct workshops or seminars at your location on an array of cutting edge topics:

In these tough economic times, let ACPE bring great education and CMEs to you. We have excellent faculty who can meet your education leadership needs.

ACPE OnSite programs can be the first step toward a management degree with one of three partner universities: Carnegie Mellon, University of Southern California, and University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Or you can choose to become board certified in medical management – Certified Physician Executive.

The cost of bringing faculty to you ranges between $6,000 - $12,000 honoraria, plus expenses – which can be a substantial cost savings compared to sending your physician leaders or potential leaders to conferences.

Why Bring a Speaker to your Organization?

ACPE Onsite CME Programs are customized to meet your organization's needs in content, timing, convenience and location. The OnSite Coordinator will work with you one-on-one via the telephone or email to coordinate your session whether it’s for a single keynote address or a full 3 year Physician Leadership Program.

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1. First consultation will establish the following: Why you need a speaker, what is currently happening in your organization, time frame, what content you need and budgeting requirements.

2. Based upon the initial consultation, ACPE will send you sample topics, speaker biographies and a proposed budget.

3. Once speaker, topic and budget are chosen, an ACPE coordinator will confirm faculty and program dates.

4. You will have the opportunity to speak with the faculty to customize the program to your organization's current educational needs.

5. ACPE coordinator will act as the liason between your organization and the speaker, making sure deadlines are met and all coordination efforts are running smoothly.

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Timing

Whenever it’s convenient for you! You research your audience’s availability and ACPE coordinates with the speaker(s) to find a mutually acceptable date(s). Saturdays, Sundays, weekdays, mornings or evenings, it’s up to you. Keynotes, half days or full days sessions are available but keep in mind that our speakers are paid by the day, so if you need someone to speak for only 1/2 day, try to find another way to utilize them for a longer period of time. Multi-day programs can be scheduled consecutively or spread out over several months. Each session is typically billed separately so costs can be spread out as well.

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Location

You can have the meeting at your own facility or at an outside facility such as a hotel or banquet room. Sometimes getting away even just down the road can prove beneficial to attendees however keep in mind that external site charges may include room rental, service charges and box handling charges. Either way, just make sure you take into consideration the facility’s availability along with the audience and speaker availability.

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Attendees

The average amount of OnSite audience members is usually around 40 people but as long as the facility can hold it, you can have as many attendees as you wish. The speaker fee does not change based on the number in the audience. The variable costs that you would need to consider through ACPE are printed materials and CME certificates though. That cost is based on the number of people. All members will provided CME credit for their participation.

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Costs

OnSite Educational programs cost an average of $6,000 to $12,000 per day per faculty. This includes: honoraria, airfare and car rental, lodging & expenses, course materials, CME certificates, evaluations and administrative development charges up to 40 people. ACPE staff will be happy to provide a estimated budget for each specific program you plan.

To get the most from your budget try to spread a 4 day program over 1 year – a meeting every quarter can span budget cycles.

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