MJ Consulting Group partners with academic centers of excellence, non-profit associations and medical education companies which are dedicated to advancing medical education. While reinforcing a collaborative approach, our goal is to raise awareness of and foster dialogue about solutions to address educational gaps and needs among healthcare providers. Educational initiatives designed to use targeted, multifaceted, and synergistic approaches have the most immediate and long-lasting effect on learners. These initiatives must be spearheaded by organizations with influence and reach among key stakeholder groups to be effective.

Our collaborative partnerships are designed to promote the active participation of multiple healthcare disciplines and professions while strengthening the credibility, depth and effectiveness of each educational initiative.

Johns Hopkins is one of the most trusted teaching institutions within the medical profession. Hopkins sponsorship and accreditation ensures the highest standards and, therefore the highest credibility among healthcare professionals. The result of the "Hopkins brand" is consistently higher participation rates and certificate completion statistics. U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked The Johns Hopkins Hospital #1 among American hospitals for the 17th consecutive year. Johns Hopkins remains the nation's leading medical school recipient of research funds from the National Institutes of Health.

Earlier in 2006, the Johns Hopkins Office of CME received "Accreditation with Commendation" for 6 years in a row, the highest ranking issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). Hopkins CME has been recognized as a center for "Best Practices" and as a resource to ACCME-accredited providers.

The Johns Hopkins CME Mission: Excellence in Standards

As emphasized in its mission statement, the Johns Hopkins Office of CME is committed to:

• Adherence to and compliance with the ACCME's Standards for Commercial Support.
• Presenting new research knowledge and its application to various levels of healthcare and disease prevention.
• Partnering with other distinguished organizations and institutions, under the clinical and scientific guidance of the Johns Hopkins faculty, to offer educational activities to national and international medical communities that expand the reach and contribution of the Johns Hopkins clinical and scientific faculty.
• Developing and evaluating new educational tools to bring biomedical knowledge and delivery of healthcare to physicians worldwide with more speed and interactive learning techniques.

The Johns Hopkins CME Mission: An Evidence-Based Practice Center

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is an Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC), one of 13 such centers in North America designated in 2002 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The primary mission of the Johns Hopkins EPC is to generate and synthesize knowledge so that evidence-based information can be effectively applied to medical and public health practices. The Hopkins EPC has performed formal systematic literature reviews for publication and for the development of practice guidelines in the areas of cardiology, radiology, kidney disease, eye disease, cancer, endocrinology, hypertension, prevention practices, and infectious disease.

BMJ Publishing Group (BMJPG) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association and is an international leader in medical publishing. The mission of the BMJPG is to lead the debate on healthcare and to deliver innovative, useful evidence-based knowledge as well as best practice and learning to doctors, health professionals, researchers and patients, when and where they need it.

The premier publication of BMJPG is the BMJ (British Medical Journal), a leading international general medical journal which has been in existence for over 160 years. In addition to the BMJ, the Group publishes over 22 journals covering major medical specialties, public health and evidence-based medicine.

The cornerstone of BMJPG's mission is the promotion of evidence-based medicine and this philosophy is carried through all of the Group's journals and information products. The Group is a global leader in creating and disseminating the best possible knowledge that supports evidence-based clinical practice. BMJPG's premier decision-support resource, BMJ Clinical Evidence (www.clincalevidence.com), is an international compendium of the best available research evidence on the treatment of various medical conditions. Launched in 1999, BMJ Clinical Evidence remains the gold standard in evidence-based synopses on the effectiveness of common clinical interventions. It is used by over 1 million clinicians worldwide, including 500,000 physicians in the U.S.

Through BMJ Learning and BMJ Masterclasses, the Group has developed new evidence-based vehicles to enhance the continuing education and professional development experience through online learning and didactic courses covering the issues most relevant to practicing clinicians.

Effect of Continuing Medical Education on Healthcare Provider Attitudes

"...trends demonstrated that continuing education is effective at producing both short-term and long-term attudinal gains and that when possible, use of multimedia, multiple techniques, and multiple exposures should produce better attitudinal outcomes."

Adapted from AHRQ Report,
Effectiveness of CME, 2007