CONTINUING MEDICAL
EDUCATION (CME)
Advancing Knowledge.
Improving Care.
The Institute for International Medicine’s (INMED) Continuing Medical Education program’s mission is to be an innovative medium, advocate for, and a provider of medical education that promotes evidence-based change, professional development, and patient outcome improvement.
About CME
CME Mission Statement
Accreditation
CME Mission Statement
Purpose: The INMED Continuing Medical Education program’s purpose is to offer quality, evidence-based educational opportunities that are developed to promote physician competence.
Content Areas: INMED’s Continuing Medical Education program content will include: clinical medicine and basic science research, reviews of current or best practice recommendations for clinical care, procedural skills development and exercises, cross-cultural skills development, as well as professional development in bioethics, and health care leadership.
Target Audience: INMED’s Continuing Medical Education program seeks to serve the educational needs of physicians, medical students, medical residents and other healthcare professionals (allied health personnel, physician extenders, basic scientists, and researchers) with a focus on local and state health care colleagues.
Types of Activities and Services Provided: As a Continuing Medical Education provider at a non-profit educational organization, our education activities include live courses, live online courses, and live events that will include seminars, symposiums, reoccurring courses, and conferences. In addition to live educational activities, INMED will provide online enduring materials. The educational design, instructional method, and learning format for each event is chosen to best serve the educational needs and learning objectives of the planned educational activity.
Expected Results: INMED’s Continuing Medical Education program expects that those learners receiving our educational services will report competence and the effective use of targeted skills obtained from our Continuing Medical Education educational program.
Accreditation
Physicians: Institute for International Medicine is accredited by the Kentucky Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
INMED CME Accreditation Certificate coming soon.
Activities
Consistent with its mission to promote vision and skill, INMED offers two streams of continuing education for healthcare professionals.
Joint Providership
INMED offers joint-providership to accredit Continuing Education activities that are hosted by other institutions. In this context, INMED is dedicated to facilitating innovative medical education that promotes evidence-based change, professional development, and improved patient outcomes. Continuing Medical Education provided through INMED is AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM .
CME Leadership
Vice President of Operations
Dr. Lucchi is a librarian, library director, and professor who is passionate about the intersection between education and global mission. Dr. Lucchi has 9+ years of experience in academic librarianship as well as teaching experience across the disciplines of English, Business, and Information Literacy. Dr. Lucchi is a graduate of University of Missouri-KC (Ph.D.) and Simmons College (MLIS). He has received awards and grants from the Kansas Library Association, Association of Christian Librarians, and Humanities Kansas for excellence in librarianship and innovation in the discipline. His research is interdisciplinary, primarily centering on application of narrative theory and storytelling principles towards faculty and student identity development.
In addition to his academic work, Dr. Lucchi has spent several years living in the Czech Republic for service, teaching, and study of Czech language (culminating in a Czech academic degree from Ostrava University). He is the president of Odysea CZ, a nonprofit focusing on empowering individuals and teams to serve in and support ministry in the country.
Continuing Medical Education Manager
Kim Boyd
Kim joined INMED in 2019 as a CME Coordinator and advanced to CME Manager, where she supports the delivery of high-quality accredited continuing education. She is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and independence in CME and ongoing professional development through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Academy. Outside of work, Kim enjoys time with her husband, Jason, and their three adult children. An avid reader, she also enjoys serving through her church by organizing women’s ministry events and Bible studies.
Review Committee Chair
Fred Loper MD
Fred Loper is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. As a third-year medical student, he was part of the founding of Good Shepherd Ministries Medical Clinic – a faith-based, not-for-profit clinic that serves the uninsured people of Oklahoma City to this day. After completing his residency at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Loper served as a primary care physician at Central Oklahoma Medical Group (COMG). In 1986, he was appointed as the National Missionary for Medical Missions for a North American mission board, and in 2005, he became Executive Director of Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship, leading physicians, dentists and other health professionals in volunteer healthcare service in the US and abroad. In 2012, Dr. Loper returned to Good Shepherd Ministries Medical Clinic to serve as their full-time medical director and completed his active practice career as an Associate Physician at Community Health Centers of Oklahoma, a Federally Qualified Health Center.