Welcome to 2025!

Happy New Year! All of us here at Practice Transformation Institute (PTI) extend our warm greetings for a healthy and prosperous new year. As a reminder, PTI is a non-profit organization that provides continuing education for health care professionals through our innovative learning programs. We hope that you will consider letting us be a part of your personal and organizational education goals in 2025.

PTI is an accredited provider for the following organizations:

Continuing Medical Education (CME). PTI is accredited by the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. MSMS is a professional society representing physicians and medical students in Michigan. Being accredited by MSMS to provide continuing medical education (CME) shows that an organization has met the detailed requirements for delivering independent CME that accelerates learning, change, and improvement in healthcare.

Michigan certified physician assistants (PAs) can use CME activities for physicians to meet their licensure requirements. The Michigan Board of Nursing accepts AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) for nurses with one AMA PRA Category 1 credit being equal to one contact hour.

IACET. PTI is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. Accredited providers have gone through IACET’s rigorous accreditation process. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes quality of continuing education and training.

IACET CEUs are recognized by a wide range of organizations including universities, regulatory boards, corporations, and professional organizations.

PTI has two upcoming programs that provide CME and IACET CEUs respectively.

Advancing the Patient Experience of Care. PTI is starting a new CME monthly series called Advancing the Patient Experience of Care on January 22, 2025. The six-part series is designed to identify and develop the skills essential for providing a positive patient experience of care within the clinical setting. A patient’s experience is enhanced through effective communication, obtaining patient feedback, interacting with diverse generations, using the spirit of motivational interviewing (MI) and MI tools, and exhibiting cultural competency and humility. Using measurement in determining areas for quality improvement in the patient experience of care will be explored.

These live virtual CME activities start January 22, 2025, and will go through June 2025. Each activity will be on the 4th Wednesday of each month for 90 minutes with two choices for attendance, either from 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM or 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM. Each activity may be taken separately for 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. If all six activities are attended, 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ may be claimed. The greatest benefit will be realized by attending the entire series.

We invite you to sign up now for this great monthly series starting later this month! Please see the link below for registration.

https://transformcoach.org/learning-solutions/advancing-the-patient-experience-of-care-series/

Community Health Worker Program. The Community Health Worker (CHW) Program offers IACET CEUs. PTI started this program in early 2023 and has had ongoing training since that time. The program teaches the National C3 Council skills and health knowledge necessary to function as a CHW in a variety of community settings. This robust training offers teaching excellence along with a leading-edge curriculum that supports the participants in achieving the learning objectives of the program. The program offers formal instruction over eighteen sessions, practical experience/assessment tools, and homework assignments.

The next CHW Program will begin on March 3, 2025 and end on May 19, 2025. Live virtual webinars will be on Mondays and Thursdays from 9 AM – 4 PM. PTI is authorized by IACET to offer 0.6 CEUs for this program. (Each individual session is 0.6 CEUs.)

***PTI is an approved provider of CHW training by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). This approval followed a rigorous application process and more than two years of PTI providing CHW training through community and health system partnerships and support. We are one of the CHW training programs approved by the state, but we are the only organization with the coveted IACET accreditation.

https://transformcoach.org/learning-solutions/community-health-worker-chw-program/

https://transformcoach.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/PTI-CHW-Course-Calendar_Spring-2025.pdf

If you have any questions or need further information about either program, please contact yyang@transformcoach.org or hkinkle@transformcoach.org.

PTI offers a wide range of educational programs for all types of health care professionals. We know the benefits of working collaboratively on interprofessional teams and how they help improve patient outcomes.

We extend our best wishes for a fantastic year ahead.