What's All This Buzz About SQUIRE?

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.