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.
AI fluency in healthcare is moving beyond writing better prompts. In an eight-week AI workforce program at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea – part of the country’s Medical AI Healthcare Professional CE Project – a multidisciplinary hospital workforce learned retrieval-augmented generation, how to connect with external data, tools, and workflows, and AI agents. The curriculum design devoted most instructional time to hands-on practice. Eleven of 12 teams produced functional prototypes, and one advanced to clinical pilot use. For accredited CME/CE professionals, this model highlights the value of progressive instruction, team-based projects, mentoring, and access to approved technical environments. But as AI tools become more capable, education is also needed to build applied workflow skills and provide ongoing support beyond introductory tool training.
ACCME released an updated CME for MOC/Continuing Certification crosswalk on September 14, 2026, giving providers a consolidated view of the participating certifying boards. The resource compares available credit types, board-specific terminology, unique requirements, and expectations for activities offering Lifelong Learning, Improvement in Medical Practice, or Patient Safety credit. Its side-by-side format can help CME/CE teams identify early whether an activity’s design, assessment, and reporting approach align with a particular board. The crosswalk is an overview, not a replacement for the complete board-specific program guidance. Together, the crosswalk and individual program guides illustrate how MOC and Continuing Certification requirements can differ across certifying boards.
Last Thursday, September 17th marked World Patient Safety Day, with the 2026 theme focused on safe care for people living with noncommunicable diseases. A message reinforced during this week’s Patients for Patient Safety US webinar was that safer care requires more than preventing individual errors – it requires systems designed to identify risk, listen to patients, and continuously learn from harm and near misses. For the CME/CE enterprise, that expands the opportunity beyond educating clinicians about specific safety practices to support capabilities such as diagnostic safety, effective care transitions, escalation pathways, and meaningful patient engagement. It also raises an important planning question: are we incorporating the patient perspective into how educational needs are identified, interventions are designed, and outcomes are evaluated? As patient-reported safety measures and system-level approaches continue to evolve, CME/CE can help translate those insights into safer clinical practice.
