CONTINUING MEDICAL
EDUCATION (CME)
Advancing Knowledge.
Improving Care.
About INMED CME
Overview
CME Mission Statement
Accreditation
Overview
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.
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, professional development in leadership, cross-cultural skills and bioethics, and strive to improve patient outcomes in the populations served by the health care providers whom we educate.
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
The Institute for International Medicine (INMED) itself delivers a variety of continuing medical education activities that provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Consistent with its mission to promote vision and skill, INMED offers two streams of continuing education for healthcare professionals.
joint
providership
INMED also offers joint providership to accredit continuing medical education activities that are hosted by other institutions.
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 .
For questions regarding joint providership, please contact: [email protected]
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 the INMED staff in 2019 as CME Coordinator, soon advancing to CME Manager. She strives to uphold the standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education by participating in the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Academy. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband, Jason and three adult children. She’s an avid reader and loves organizing Women’s Ministry Conferences and Bible Studies at her Church.
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.