As the cost of high-quality digital education rises and budgets shrink, medical education providers must rethink delivery models that align with the preferences of younger, digitally-native clinicians. There’s no shortage of clinical content—the challenge is making it timely, relevant, palatable, and actionable. Do you have the tools necessary for balancing cost, accessibility, and engagement in an evolving digital landscape?
- Compare traditional vs. modern CME formats and their effectiveness across learner demographics
- Identify high-impact, budget-conscious strategies for microlearning and mobile-first education
- Evaluate ways to maintain engagement without contributing to screen fatigue
- Learn design strategies to make CME content feel relevant and urgent
Too many grant submissions fall short due to vague language, poor alignment, or unclear outcomes. Your team needs to understand the real-world pitfalls, experience a mock review “dunk tank” exercise, and get behind-the-scenes of the IME grant lifecycle. Participants will gain sharp, actionable insight into the reviewer mindset—plus practical strategies to sidestep common traps and elevate every aspect of their grant submission.
- Spot and correct issues like inconsistent budget language, vague needs assessments, and poor alignment between goals and outcomes
- Compare and contrast learning objectives and educational objectives
- Identify strategies to align with clearly posted areas of interest
- Differentiate red, yellow, and green flags in needs assessments and program design
- Build confidence in submitting or reviewing high-quality applications
Knowledge on “Know-How” does not lead to “Can-Do” or “Does.” Explore instructional design features that can motivate behavior change that leads to better outcomes. Understand how highly effective instruction design features transform the delivery of information into real-world practice improvements.
- Avoid common pitfalls in instructional design that lead to disappointing grants, activities, and outcomes
- Design learning experiences that can efficiently and effectively achieve improvements in competence and performance
- Incorporate highly effective instructional design features that will engage learners and empower them with skills to improve targeted healthcare gap
With funding timelines increasingly uncertain, both sponsors and providers are forced to operate in the unknown. By gathering perspectives from both sides, you can be confident when planning, pivoting, and partnering in this era of ambiguity.
- Map the internal dynamics behind delayed budget decisions
- Build flexibility into educational planning
- Brainstorm communication strategies to maintain trust during uncertain cycles
As AI-driven tools rapidly transform how medical education and grants management teams operate, leaders face the challenge of helping their teams adapt without fear or resistance. Explore how to build a culture of curiosity and trust, while equipping staff with the skills and confidence needed to embrace AI as a value-add rather than a threat.
- Understand the organizational barriers that can hinder AI adoption and how to overcome them
- Explore methods to assess and address team skill gaps related to AI tools and workflows
- Learn how to create a culture of trust and psychological safety during times of technological change
- Gain strategies to sustain momentum and track progress in upskilling initiatives
Between FDA staff cuts, shifting state mandates, and institutional budget freezes, grant planning has become a moving target. Can you tell whether your programs are well-positioned to endure? What if they aren’t?
- Outline key political, legislative, and economic shifts impacting education funding
- Future-proof programs by diversifying support
- Rework your approaches to pharma, nonprofits, and advocacy groups in unstable times
- Confront what pharma can and can’t commit to in today's climate
Grant management can be a balancing act, requiring attention on internal processes, deadlines, external expectations, and evolving goals. By reducing distractions, strengthening internal infrastructure, and improving external stakeholder engagement, you can build a review process that’s not only operationally sound but reputationally strong.
- Manage Distractions and Set Boundaries: The volume of grant submissions, especially with rolling deadlines, can lead to constant distractions that pull teams into the weeds.
- Build and Maintain Internal Structure: has organizational growth left your internal processes outdated? Efficiency requires consistent documentation, alignment, and accountability.
- Evolving the External Experience: Grant management is not just internal; it is also about the experience we create for external stakeholders. Reputation matters, so how can you protect it?
Why do your CME initiatives begin with strong vision but lack the ability to measure impact at the patient level? Because, while knowledge acquisition is a vital component of growth and development, it is not sufficient on its own. Understanding implementation science provides a framework for systematically applying knowledge to real-world settings, ensuring that the insights gained are effectively translated into practical applications.
By focusing on the importance of a well-thought-out strategy for implementation, your team can bridge the gap between evidence and practice, leading to more meaningful and sustainable outcomes. Explore how to approach CME initiatives that cascade effectively across organizational layers, engage key players from the start, and balance ambition with feasibility.
- Identify where disconnects commonly occur between strategy and execution in CME planning
- Explore ways to design initiatives that consider stakeholder capacity and operational realities by leveraging an implementation framework
- Learn methods for building early buy-in from faculty, coordinators, and internal teams
- Understand how to communicate vision in ways that translate across multiple stakeholders
- Discover frameworks for collaboration and adaptive implementation that sustain momentum
Patient perspectives aren’t just a nice-to-have, they’re a strategic imperative. When advocacy groups and individuals with lived experience help shape educational programs, the results are more relevant, motivating, and impactful.
Learn how to ethically integrate patient voices and stories into CME design and funding narratives, while also maintaining compliance and honoring expertise through fair engagement practices. Attendees will leave with tools to build meaningful partnerships and programs that reflect the realities patients face.
- Engage advocacy groups early in the program development process
- Explore models for ethical storytelling and integrating lived experience into education
- Discuss fair compensation strategies for patient experts
- Spot how storytelling enhances program impact and reporting
- Discover how multi-stakeholder roundtables can elevate underrepresented voices and address systemic barriers
AI is already reshaping educational design—from drafting learning objectives to personalizing engagement. But should you also use these tools to evaluate their own effectiveness? When you are called on to prove if your new approaches worked, what can you say?
- Identify key metrics leadership cares about and how to present them
- Explore templates and visual tools for simplifying outcome compilation
- Discuss how to translate diverse provider reports into one cohesive impact story
Do you have the tools, processes, and partnerships in place to efficiently review and support externally sponsored research? From building a compelling business case to navigating FMV, pricing, and protocol review, the internal review process is often more complex than it appears. Unpack the key steps and cross-functional collaboration required to ensure proposals are not only compliant, but also strategically aligned and approved without unnecessary delays.
- Break down the end-to-end approval workflow for externally sponsored research initiatives.
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of key cross-functional partners involved in the review process.
- Understand common challenges in areas such as business case justification, FMV, pricing, and protocol review.
- Explore best practices for improving speed, clarity, and compliance in the review and approval lifecycle.
Are you ready to design accredited education programs that not only engage learners but also deliver measurable outcomes at every level? Learn how to integrate a systems-level roadmap for microlearning, cross-functional collaboration, and rigorous evaluation frameworks like the Kirkpatrick Model into scalable, sustainable program design. You’ll leave with a clear strategy for demonstrating the value and impact of your education initiatives across your organization and to external stakeholders.
- Develop a systems-level approach to program design that connects individual learner engagement to organizational and patient-level outcomes
- Apply the Kirkpatrick Model and other evaluation frameworks to demonstrate impact beyond participation and satisfaction metrics
- Leverage collaborative partnerships (internal and external) to drive scalability, sustainability, and resource efficiency
- Integrate microlearning strategically into broader programs to optimize retention, flexibility, and measurable performance improvement
AI is already reshaping educational design from drafting learning objectives to personalizing engagement. If you haven’t already found safe, compliant ways to use generative AI in program creation and post-activity evaluation, you’ll have to start soon
- Presentation and discussion of how providers currently use AI to help create compelling, compliant activities and how funders are using it to analyze data
- Learn how AI technology can help develop effective, impactful CE content – for creating Learning Objectives, case studies, assessments, and faculty materials
- Understand the careful use of AI generated content and the critical role of the “Learned Expert” in vetting content
- See AI create, in Realtime, a 5-minute CE video – from the Prompt to a video
- Discuss the use of social media platforms to reach and engage target audiences
- Dissect the challenges and pitfalls of using AI for CE literature searches
As the clinical footprint of nurse practitioners, physician associates, and other APPs expands, medical education must evolve to reflect their central role in delivering care. Yet APPs are often treated as secondary audiences in CME planning despite being frontline decision-makers, educators, and patient advocates. With the right mindset of centering APP voices, you can design more inclusive, high-value education that recognizes their unique perspectives and needs.
- Review the current and future clinical roles of APPs in care delivery and team-based practice
- Identify common gaps in CME content, access, and engagement for APP learners
- Strategize for building tiered or co-developed education that serves physicians and APPs equitably
- Structure partnerships with APP-led organizations or leaders to ensure representation and relevance
- Discuss the value of APP inclusion in outcomes tracking and grant-supported program strategy
Physician disengagement is only part of a larger breakdown. Across the medical education and research landscape, teams are facing rising friction due to generational shifts, cultural misalignment, and outdated leadership norms. From new grads who’ve never worked in a traditional office to senior clinicians navigating post-pandemic burnout, engagement challenges now stretch across roles and departments. Peers will share real-world strategies to rebuild trust, clarify expectations, and create a collaborative culture that supports accountability and momentum in CME and study management.
- Identify root causes of disengagement across generations and clinical roles
- Explore how shifting workplace norms are disrupting traditional leadership and collaboration models
- Learn strategies to strengthen communication and accountability in cross-functional teams
- Discover tools for culturally competent engagement and expectation-setting
- Understand how institutions are adapting to improve physician responsiveness and team cohesion
