Healthcare Professional Education - CME

Building a National Education and Relationship Platform

Healthcare education represents another major area of CAN's long-term strategy.

CAN is developing a professional-education platform with the goal of becoming an ACCME-accredited continuing medical education provider.

Once accredited and operating under applicable ACCME and AMA requirements, CAN would be able to develop eligible physician education for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ while also building appropriate continuing-education pathways for nurses, nurse practitioners, sonographers and other healthcare professionals through the relevant professional credit systems.

Programs can be delivered:

• online;

• live streamed;

• in person at participating campuses;

• at healthcare partner locations; or

• through blended formats.

Participating colleges could contract with CAN for professional education, faculty development, Preceptor Academy ™ training and specialty programming while CAN maintains responsibility for the integrity and independence of its accredited education.

Turning Education into Stronger Clinical Partnerships

Healthcare programs cannot grow without clinical education.

Diagnostic Medical Sonography, nursing and many other allied-health programs depend on qualified clinical sites and professionals willing to teach students.

CAN is building a new approach to clinical partnership development.

Instead of approaching healthcare organizations only when a college needs student placements, CAN seeks to build useful professional relationships first.

That means engaging:

• physicians;

• nurse practitioners and APRNs;

• nurses;

• sonographers;

• clinical educators;

• practice owners;

• imaging directors;

• healthcare executives; and other clinical decision makers.

Through professional education, preceptor development, workforce partnerships and ongoing engagement, CAN helps participating colleges discover clinical opportunities that may otherwise remain outside the traditional hospital system.

Potential partners can include independent imaging centers, physician practices, cardiology and vascular groups, women's health and OB/GYN practices, NP/APRN-led practices, nephrology and dialysis organizations, liver and GI practices, mobile diagnostic companies and other healthcare providers.

Clinical placements remain separate from accredited education and must independently meet each college program's academic, supervision, accreditation and affiliation requirements.

The advantage is not transactional. The advantage is relationship.

A clinician who participates in a CAN educational program may later become faculty, a preceptor, an employer partner, an advisory-board member or an advocate for student clinical education.

That creates a repeatable model for expanding clinical capacity.