Medical writers and editors active in the accredited CME space may be interested to learn a bit more about SQUIRE, a new standard outcomes reporting format used by a growing number of peer-reviewed journals. SQUIRE stands for Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence and was pioneered a few years ago by the British Medical Journal, better know as the BMJ. A special version of SQUIRE has been developed for use by members of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions. A conference call aimed at recruiting grant support for wider user of the "ACEhp SQUIRE tool" was held this afternoon, and I was fortunate enough to be invited.
Here's a link via DropBox to a very brief (7 slides) presentation based on our call, pared way back to focus on elements of interest to my fellow medical writers active in the accredited CME space.
Isn't it cool how SQUIRE originated with an effort to promote EXCELLENT WRITING???
By the way, the photo above comes from a brochure promoting a writer's conference to be held next month at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Sounds like fun, sure wish I could go.
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The American Medical Writers Association just asked for my input on a survey aimed at helping our organization develop a plan for serving members in the future. I filled it out and added this when asked for additional suggestions on educational topics:
"A deep dive into the CME needs assessment as a special type of document: what it is, why it is so important, how to write one, sources of evidence, how to present the evidence, how to reference and attribute your sources, how to get hired to write NAs, what the NA of the future will look like, how much to charge, how much lead time to insist upon, how to include the patient perspective, how PI-CME and QI-CME are affecting how we write needs assessments, and how to overcome the most common barriers encountered while writing needs assessments, including the appearance of commercial bias."
