Planning Educational Activities for Health Professionals and Interprofessional Healthcare Teams
Below are steps that will help guide the planning process
1. Decide on Activity Goals
Ensure your activity is designed to change skills/strategies, performance of the team and/or patient outcomes.
2. Determine Target Audience
If you determine the target audience is made up of two or more professions, consider making it an interprofessional activity.
3. Select the Activity Planning Committee
- IMPORTANT: The activity planning committee must have a member credentialed to represent all professions selected as the target audience. For example, if the target audience is physicians, you must have an MD on the planning committee.
- Document your planning committee meetings.
4. Define the Gap
- The gap answers the question of why the education/training is needed?
- Keep record of all data sources and references used to determine the gap.
5. Create Learning Objectives
- The objectives will be the roadmap of how the learners will make changes in their skills and strategies etc.
- Make objectives measurable! We recommend you use Bloom’s Taxonomy Action Verbs to achieve measurable, higher-level learning.
6. Ensure Content Validity
All learning must be based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning, while giving a fair and balanced view of diagnostic and therapeutic options.
7. Determine Speakers/Facilitators
- Choose speakers/facilitators that are skilled in the topic.
- Ensure they do not have motives for participation other than to educate the target audience.
8. Collect Relevant Financial Disclosures
- It is required that anyone involved in the activity that may possibly be in control of content sign an RFD. This includes the planning committee, presenters and facilitators. It also includes administrative assistants and reviewers.
- Review the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. They can be found at accme.org.
- If there are any disclosures, work directly with OICHE to mitigate those disclosures prior to an activity starting.
- Please use OICHE's most current RFD form which can be found under the "Fees and Forms" tab.
9. Create Marketing Plan
- Marketing of continuing interprofessional education is very important. Work with your team to ensure you have a marketing plan that attracts the intended target audience.
- Don’t overlook this important step. Lack of marketing is one of the biggest reasons a planned educational activity fails to launch.
10. Contact OICHE to Begin the Accreditation Process
Details of this process are under the “Activity Accreditation Process” tab. You can contact our office at OICHE@asu.edu with questions.