The Charles R. Drew University Office of CME offers excellent continuing medical education that enhances the ability of faculty physicians and community physicians to deliver patient care.
The overarching goal of CDU’s Continuing Medical Education is to enhance physician competence and performance, ultimately improving patient care within underserved populations and reducing healthcare disparities.
Charles R. Drew University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Many of our accredited initiatives, however, target the entire healthcare team, and you can expect to learn from noted experts in their fields.
Our mission is to provide excellent accredited CE. At CDU, we place particular emphasis on primary care, specialty care, and research clusters focused on high-impact problems in underserved and minority communities, including factors and conditions that contribute to healthcare disparities. The CDU CE Program is designed to enhance physicians’ ability to lead within the healthcare team and implement evidence-based medicine. Our accredited CE program uses ACGME/ABMS core competencies as the basis for its content, ensuring we meet our learners’ needs.
Ongoing CME Initiatives
Friday Noon Lecture Series in the College of Medicine
Targets both clinical and non-clinical topics relevant to improving measured health disparities. CDU’s faculty, staff, students, and community healthcare professionals comprise the target audience.
Multidisciplinary Journal Club at the Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center
Targets physicians and other healthcare professionals with medical literature, which serves as a basis for discussion regarding its application to practice improvement and patient care.
Tumor Board at the Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center
Targets a multidisciplinary audience and features complex patient cases across various tumor types.
Primary Care Conference at the Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center
Aims to enhance the fund of knowledge of primary care providers, contributing to their ability to provide excellent care to patients and their communities.
Medical Grand Rounds at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center
Targeted at clinicians and covers a variety of interdisciplinary topics specific to patient management and care.
Grand Rounds at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital
The goal of this initiative is to enhance the quality of care by adopting a compassionate and collaborative approach to improve patient health in a community hospital practice setting within Los Angeles.
Students Research Day
This initiative is an interprofessional education series that will specifically address high-impact problems in underserved and minority communities, including the social determinants of health (factors and conditions that influence health disparities), which can be applied by primary care, specialty providers, and other healthcare professionals.
Annual/Special Initiatives
The Office of CME accredits half-day and full-day conferences throughout the year.
Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Explores systemic and structural disparities and novel ideas within the field of psychiatry to improve physician knowledge and competence required to help and support the underserved patient population of the South Los Angeles community.
