May 18, 2026

The Twelve: 01 Monday Mindset

A minute of insights.

Spend :01 of your time each Monday morning as Twelve:01 delivers timely tools, trends, strategies, and/or compliance insights for the CME/CE enterprise.

A Model for AI Reliability and Verification

Launched earlier this year, Perplexity’s Model Council mode offers an option for cross-referencing AI-generated outputs.  Queries are run simultaneously across multiple frontier models (presently, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT 5.2, and Gemini 3.0) synthesizing areas of agreement, disagreement, and uncertainty into a single output matrix. Model Council doesn’t claim to eliminate errors but does explicitly surface conflicting interpretations and potential blind spots. Even when the underlying evidence is minimal, many current AI tools will present answers with a degree of certainty. As AI systems become more specialized and operationally embedded, multi-model validation approaches like this may emerge as an important safeguard for supporting appropriate human oversight, verification, and decision-making.

Peer-Built, Practice-Ready

The ACCME’s 2025 Learn to Thrive Working Groups have delivered five practical, peer-developed resources, and they’re all now available for download on the ACCME Working Groups page.  CME/CE professionals collaborated to produce guides spanning some of the field’s most pressing challenges: managing Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS), navigating joint providership, improving learner access, developing frontline CE educators, and building the CE/CPD workforce of the future. Each resource reflects real-world expertise from colleagues in the field, making tools directly applicable to CME/CE programs. The resources address both operational and strategic needs for all provider types, whether you work in a large academic medical center or a smaller CE office.

CMS Elevates Patient Safety Expectations

CMS’s new Patient Safety Structural Measure (PSSM), finalized under the FY 2025 IPPS rule, sets forth a framework for evaluating whether hospitals have the structural and cultural systems necessary to support patient and workforce safety.  The reporting window for 2025 is just wrapping up for hospitals that must attest to implementing 25 evidence-based safety strategies.  For some accredited CME/CE programs, this measure could create demand for interprofessional education, leadership development, and performance improvement initiatives that help operationalize CMS expectations across healthcare teams.