Earn CME While You Travel: The Best Resources for Combining Continuing Education with Adventure Your complete guide to travel CME—plus the top websites to plan your next educational getaway. There's a certain irony in the traditional approach to continuing medical education. You spend your days helping patients achieve healthier, more balanced lives—then you fulfill your CME requirements by sitting in a windowless conference room, fighting off the afternoon slump while someone clicks through slides about guidelines you could have read yourself. It doesn't have to be this way. Travel CME—sometimes called destination CME or CME conferences in resort locations—offers a fundamentally different model. Instead of treating continuing education as a box to check, it transforms learning into an experience worth remembering. You attend morning lectures in Maui, then spend the afternoon actually using what you learned about stress reduction. You discuss new cardiology research over dinne...
Launching ACCESS Resource Center: A Practical Hub for the CMS/CMMI ACCESS Innovation Model If you have tried to make sense of a new Medicare innovation model in real time, you already know the pattern: the key requirements are scattered across dozens of webpages, PDFs, slide decks, webinars, FAQs, and informal commentary. You end up spending hours bouncing between sources just to answer basic questions like: What is required? What is optional? What changed? What do operators actually need to do next? That problem is exactly why I built ACCESS Resource Center . This site is designed to be a central, continuously updated knowledge hub for the CMS/CMMI ACCESS Innovation Model —with an emphasis on helping people move from “reading” to “operating.” What is ACCESS Resource Center? ACCESS Resource Center is a curated library of the most relevant CMS ACCESS model resources in one place—organized for practical use. The goal is simple: Reduce the time it takes to understand the model Improve a...