Mission
The mission of the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Department at the Foundation for Orthopaedic Research and Education (FORE) is to facilitate improved patient care through educational activities that maintain, develop, and enhance the knowledge, skills, and professional performance in surgery and care.
Purpose
The CME Department encourages the continuing development of healthcare professionals by offering an array of activities that enhances existing knowledge and skills and encourages improvements in patient care.
Content
Activity content covers a comprehensive set of topics in the area of orthopaedics.
Target Audience
FORE activities primary target is physicians whose scope of practice includes orthopaedics; specifically, primary care physicians, orthopaedic surgeons, and neurosurgeons. Secondary targets that FORE believes make up a system-based approach to healthcare include physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, rehabilitation therapists, surgical technicians, athletic trainers, scientists, researchers, and other healthcare professionals whose work is related to the delivery of healthcare in the stated content areas.
Types of Activities
FORE plans live, internet live, internet enduring, and regularly scheduled activities.
Expected Results
As a result of these educational activities, FORE’s intends to foster the educational development of physicians and other related healthcare professionals. The activities are intended to strengthen medical knowledge, competency, and performance skills of the learner, thereby improving patient care and outcomes. FORE is committed to assessing the impact of this learning on an ongoing basis through qualitative methods to ensure that our goals are being met.
FORE strives to achieve this mission by developing activities in collaboration with educationally influential physicians who serve as course directors, co-directors, and planning committee members. Activities are reviewed in partnership by a volunteer advisory committee. The expected result of the Program is to enhance the knowledge, competency, and performance skills of its faculty, learners, and other healthcare professionals to positively impact health outcomes of their patients which should enhance the overall health status of communities worldwide.
About our Program
The Continuing Medical Education (CME) Department at the Foundation for Orthopaedic Research and Education (FORE) facilitates improved patient care through educational activities that maintain, develop, and enhance knowledge, skills, and professional performance in surgery and care.
We are dedicated to promoting lifelong learning through the provision of educational experiences for physicians and other healthcare professionals who wish to enhance and expand their medical knowledge and skills to improve health care services.
The CME Department is committed to sponsoring quality continuing education activities to meet the needs of physicians and other healthcare professionals practicing locally, nationally, and internationally. These activities are designed to keep pace with advances in medicine, technology, and biomedical research. Educational activities at FORE are continually updated to maximize the utilization of our faculty and explore opportunities to enhance medical knowledge and skills among the target audience.
As the rate of change in medicine continues to increase, FORE’s continuing education programs are dedicated to providing new knowledge for participants, encouraging the reassessment of existing knowledge, and changing practice behaviors to improve patient care. It is anticipated that these activities sponsored by FORE will be balanced, ethical, and objective. Our staff works closely with the program director(s) in planning, implementing, and evaluating continuing education activities. Results from program evaluations will be used to guide improvements with future programs.