Olson Curtis A, Balmer Jann T, Mejicano George C
Department of Medicine, Office of Continuing Professional Development in Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2011 Fall;31 Suppl 1:S3-12. doi: 10.1002/chp.20143.
Continuing medical education's transition from an emphasis on dissemination to changing clinical practice has made it increasingly necessary for CME providers to develop effective interorganizational collaborations. Although interorganizational collaboration has become commonplace in most sectors of government, business, and academia, our review of the literature and experience as practitioners and researchers suggest that the practice is less widespread in the CME field. The absence of a rich scholarly literature on establishing and maintaining interorganizational collaborations to provide continuing education to health professionals means there is little information about how guidelines and principles for effective collaboration developed in other fields might apply to continuing professional development in health care and few models of successful collaboration. The purpose of this article is to address this gap by describing a successful interorganizational CME collaboration-Cease Smoking Today (CS2day)-and summarizing what was learned from the experience, extending our knowledge by exploring and illustrating points of connection between our experience and the existing literature on successful interorganizational collaboration. In this article, we describe the collaboration and the clinical need it was organized to address, and review the evidence that led us to conclude the collaboration was successful. We then discuss, in the context of the literature on effective interorganizational collaboration, several factors we believe were major contributors to success. The CS2day collaboration provides an example of how guidelines for collaboration developed in various contexts apply to continuing medical education and a case example providing insight into the pathways that lead to a collaboration's success.
继续医学教育从强调知识传播向注重改变临床实践的转变，使得继续医学教育提供者开展有效的组织间合作变得愈发必要。尽管组织间合作在政府、商业和学术界的大多数领域已很常见，但我们对相关文献的回顾以及作为从业者和研究者的经验表明，这种做法在继续医学教育领域并不那么普遍。目前缺乏关于建立和维持组织间合作以向卫生专业人员提供继续教育的丰富学术文献，这意味着关于其他领域制定的有效合作指南和原则如何应用于医疗保健领域的继续专业发展的信息很少，成功合作的模式也寥寥无几。本文旨在填补这一空白，通过描述一个成功的组织间继续医学教育合作项目——“今日戒烟”（CS2day），总结从该项目中学到的经验，通过探索和阐述我们的经验与现有关于成功组织间合作的文献之间的联系点来扩展我们的知识。在本文中，我们描述了该合作项目及其旨在解决的临床需求，并回顾了使我们得出该合作项目成功这一结论的证据。然后，我们结合关于有效组织间合作的文献，讨论了我们认为促成成功的几个主要因素。CS2day合作项目提供了一个示例，展示了在不同背景下制定的合作指南如何应用于继续医学教育，以及一个案例，深入了解了促成合作成功的途径。
