City of Hope has a long-standing commitment to continuing medical education (CME), sharing advances in cancer research and treatment with the health-care community through CME courses such as conferences, symposia and other on and off campus CME opportunities for medical professionals.
CME events are vital for physicians seeking board certification and for maintenance of certification, or MOC, ensuring that they are kept up to date on the latest treatment modalities and delivering the highest standard of patient care.
City of Hope’s CME program is fully accredited through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME.) In 2005, our CME Program was Reaccredited with Commendation, with Exemplary Compliance demonstrated in six essential elements. This designation places our CME Program in the top 1 to 2 percent of CME program providers in the nation. We are also now listed as a “best practices” resource on the ACCME Web site under their Exemplary Compliance List.
City of Hope is a founding member of the NCCN (National Comprehensive Cancer Network), a not-for-profit alliance of 21 of the nation’s leading cancer centers. The NCCN develops clinical practice guidelines for use by patients, physicians and other health care decision-makers. The NCCN Drugs and Biologics Compendium is a regularly-updated, comprehensive set of guidelines which recommends the most appropriate diagnostic tests, therapy and follow-up for cancer patients based on clinical evidence as well as the consensus of leading academic cancer centers.
City of Hope’s expert doctors contribute to the NCCN Compendium on an ongoing basis, and CME courses offered by City of Hope are consistently informed by NCCN guidelines.