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On September 30th, six national physician organizations (AAFP, AAP, ACOG, ACP, ACS, and AMA) issued a joint statement emphasizing that AI should support, not supplant, physician expertise and clinical judgment. The statement cautions that portraying AI as inherently better informed than physicians may diminish professional expertise and undermine patients’ trust. AI can quickly surface information and identify patterns, but physicians interpret those outputs in the context of a patient’s history, circumstances, preferences, and needs. For accredited CME/CE professionals, this distinction can inform education on appropriate AI use, including verification, accountability, and recognizing when an AI recommendation does not fit the clinical situation. The physician organizations conclude that patient safety, physician expertise, and the human dimensions of clinical practice should guide how AI is developed and used in medicine.
Joint Accreditation will distribute its annual Additional Health Professions Survey in early October for credit offerings during the 2027 calendar year. The survey identifies which additional profession-specific credits each jointly accredited provider intends to offer or continue offering. Every provider must respond, including organizations that do not plan to add any additional credit types. If no response is received, Joint Accreditation will assume that the organization does not intend to offer credit beyond AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, ANCC contact hours, ACPE credit, and/or IPCE credit. The annual selection process allows Joint Accreditation to establish each provider’s approved credit portfolio and determine the additional health professions included in its annual accreditation fees.
The Coalition for Advancing Safer Healthcare (CASH), convened by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, brings together national leaders to reimagine health systems around the prevention of patient harm. Its Safe By Design: Reimagining Health Care Around the Prevention of Harm white paper advances an “Ambition Health System” model in which safety is embedded in governance, technology, data infrastructure, care processes, and patient partnership from the outset. For the CME/CE enterprise, the work could include an expanded role for accredited education as part of a health system’s learning infrastructure – equipping interprofessional teams and leaders to apply systems thinking, use safety data, implement safer workflows and technologies, and evaluate practice change over time. This approach aligns education with quality and safety improvement priorities.
