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Pacific Island Continuing Clinical Eduation Program (PICCEP)
This study aims to facilitate continuing clinical education (CCE), with an emphasis on primary care for local health providers in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific jurisdictions (Guam, the Northern Marianas, Micronesia, Palau, the Marshall Islands and American Samoa). A major focus is CCE for graduates of the Pacific Basin Medical Officers Training Program. The study involves health care workforce analyses, needs evaluations, and identification of resources for CCE in the Pacific Basin region. PICCEP addresses CCE needs of health care providers in the region; utilizes educational interventions with a high likelihood of increasing providers' clinical skills; helps create a sustainable CCE program that incorporates existing regional resources, is feasible, and fosters an ongoing regional infrastructure among participating jurisdictions; and targets the needs of physicians and other health care providers in cooperation with ongoing local and outside CCE initiatives. Year 4 programs include Continuing Medical Education (CME) for physicians and other clinicians in the nine jurisdictions; evaluating the effectiveness of its programs; and preventive oral health education for medical and dental providers. To date, PICCEP has provided two rounds of CCE courses in these primarily rural Pacific jurisdictions, delivered continuing oral health education to medical and dental professionals, worked with the health professionals in the jurisdictions to select medical reference materials to distribute among the sites, and carried out needs assessments for continuing education in nursing, pharmacy, laboratory, and other health professions in the region.
Publications
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Assessing Physicians' Continuing Medical Education (CME) Needs in the U.S.-Associated Pacific Jurisdictions
Author(s): Michael J Thompson, Sue M Skillman, Karin Johnson, Schneeweiss R, Kathleen Ellsbury,L Gary Hart; Pacific Islands Continuing Clinical Education Program Study Team
Citation: Pacific Health Dialog, 9(1):11-6
Date: 03 / 2002
OBJECTIVE: To assess the self-perceived continuing medical education (CME) needs of physicians in American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. METHODS: Questionnaire-based survey of all physicians. RESULTS: Responses obtained from a total of 143 physicians in the region provided information on training backgrounds, previous experiences with CME, local access to regular CME sessions, perceived priority educational needs and preferred methods of CME delivery. CONCLUSIONS: Overall 64% of respondents had attended a formal CME event in 1999 or 2000, and 71% had access to local weekly or biweekly CME. However the perceived usefulness of these events varied by region. Priority learning needs were identified by physicians including non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiac disease; communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and tropical diseases; as well as skills such as EKG and X-ray interpretation, trauma management and cardiac life support. Information on the most pressing educational needs and desired methods of delivery will be crucial in planning CME in this region.
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University of Washington Pacific Islands Continuing Education Program (PICCEP): Guam Conference on Structure and Content of Continuing Clinical Education Programs in the U.S.-Associated Jurisdictions
Author(s): Thompson MJ, Skillman SM, Schneeweiss R, Hart LG, Johnson K; Pacific Islands Continuing Clilnical Education Program Study Team
Citation: Pacific Health Dialogue, 9(1):119-22
Date: 03 / 2002
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Updating Hospital Reference Resources in the U.S.-Associated Pacific Basin: Efforts of the Pacific Islands Continuing Clinical Education Program (PICCEP)
Author(s): Karin E Johnson, Sue M Skillman, Kathleen E Ellsbury, Michael J Thompson, L Gary Hart
Citation: Journal of the Medical Library Association, 92(4):495-497
Date: 2004
This article describes a project by the Pacific Islands Continuing Clinical Education Program (PICCEP) at the University of Washington (UW) to supplement hospital reference materials in six jurisdictions in the US-associated Pacific Islands. It outlines a model for cooperatively developing a suite of clinical reference materials suitable to low-resource settings.
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