Director of CME at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee

Job Description:

Providing short- and long-term planning/goals for Continuing Medical Education and Continuing Dental Education; working to ensure continued accreditation provider status through understanding and application of accreditation guidelines for CME and CDE activities; drives relationships with pharmaceutical customers to facilitate new grant request opportunities; assists and educates all Health divisions in the planning, development and offering of CME and CDE credit through all product lines; prepares budget and oversees financial planning for the department.



Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Planning, managing, developing and supervising all CME activities in the School of Medicine and Basic Sciences; Planning, managing, developing and supervising all CDE activities in the School of Dentistry


• Providing final decision-making authority for the management and direction of the CME and CDE Division


• Preparing and delivering re-accreditation applications, progress reports and other materials as needed to the ACCME and ADA/CERP to maintain accreditation status in medicine, dentistry


• Ensuring and overseeing compliance with ACCME criteria and standards as well as ADA CERP criteria and standards


• Serving as main contact for all ACCME and ADA/CERP communications


• Directing CE administration, processing of pre and post test, analyzing evaluations, and issuing of CE certificates


• Keeping current on ACCME and ADA/CERP guidelines and standards. Guides Editorial and Administrative Departments of all on adherence to guidelines and standards.


• Planning meetings, develops agenda for, and takes actions on decisions made by the LCMEI Continuing Education Governing Committee (internal), which oversees LCMEI overall CE program.

• Coordinating staff members in the processing of CME,CDE,CE examinations in accredited journals, including scoring, recording of results in database and spreadsheets, production and mailing of acknowledgments of participation to physicians, dentists, pharmacists and nurse anesthetists, and submitting collected fees to appropriate budget codes


• Directing staff and Faculty in maintaining Activity Planning and Development files for each individual certified CME activity and CE program, including verification of faculty disclosure documentation, acquisition of faculty CVs, etc.


• Serving on Advisory Committee for Office of Faculty Affairs and Development for the process for structuring and implementing the Faculty Development Plan


• Attends annual Editorial Board Meetings or teleconferences for CE journals when needed