In 2023, we embarked on a mission to democratize access to accredited healthcare content in developing countries. Engaging with international content providers, we advocated for a shift in business models—suggesting the sale of modules instead of subscriptions, making education more accessible.
While encountering challenges such as high production costs and accreditation concerns among providers, we realized an opportunity. We decided to venture into content production ourselves. This strategic move enabled us to reduce costs and align with international accreditation standards. Our goal is to demonstrate the viability of selling per module.
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Emma Van HoeckeEmma Van Hoecke is the founder of CMEPEDIA and ACCRECENT "Doing good is just not good enough. It needs to be done better." Emma is a consultant psychiatrist with over 29 years of clinical experience in five different countries across continents. ACCRECENT wants to be a gravitational centre that attracts knowledge, following the physics of international accreditation and ensuring universal access to this knowledge for healthcare professionals and students. We want to foster a well-informed and skilled healthcare community. |
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BriskonAim, Align, Achieve Briskon is CMEPEDIA's and ACCRECENT's development partner. Founded in 2005, Briskon is a software development, digital marketing, mobile apps development and complete web solution company operating from Bangalore, India and Dallas, Texas, USA. Briskon is a highly process-driven organization with extensive experience working with great companies. The young and vibrant Briskon team consists of highly skilled managers, analysts, programmers, marketers, designers, developers, and QA personnel working together to deliver world-class products and solutions. An unfailing commitment to quality and continuous learning to stay abreast of the latest technologies enables us to provide customer delight consistently. |
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Ruman MustakIf we are brave enough often enough, we will fall; this is the physics of vulnerability. I aim to achieve efficiency, emphasizing managerial principles in administrative positions in the educational technology & healthcare sectors. I work towards ensuring the well-being of my team members as well as strive towards the company's ultimate goal of flourishing through the art of teamwork! Notably, I am known as patient and dependable professionally and personally. I believe 'Everything is a story waiting to unravel,' so I obsessively hoard anything that I think could tell a story. |
Accrecent seeks to reduce financial barriers to learning by providing health care professionals with free or affordable continuing medical education activities based on adult learning principles that are fit for purpose to suit local needs and context. These activities are high-quality, unbiased, evidence-based, up-to-date, learner-driven, and produced in various formats focusing on refreshing essential knowledge, advances in medicine, medical technology, biomedical research, and changes in the healthcare environment. Our activities provide education and advocacy to support safe, equitable and effective patient care.
Our services extend to healthcare professionals, healthcare professionals in-training and other related healthcare professionals, including nurses, physician assistants, dentists, pharmacists, social workers, community healthcare workers, and others.
The program provides activities designed to promote healthcare professional performance, competency and optimal patient outcomes and services to the public and professional activities.
1. Purpose
Accrecent aims to reduce financial barriers to learning by providing healthcare professionals with free or affordable continuing medical education activities. The design of these activities aims to refresh essential knowledge and concentrate on advances in medicine, technology, research, and changes in the healthcare environment.
2. Vision:
Accrecent provides high-quality, unbiased, evidence-based, and learner-driven education and advocacy in support of safe, equitable, and effective patient care. We meticulously analyse the behaviour of adult learners, ensuring our educational initiatives are finely attuned to their needs and preferences. Our dedication to being data-driven empowers us to provide unparalleled support in pursuing optimal healthcare outcomes.
3. Content areas
The comprehensive content provided to our target audience in developing nations covers a broad spectrum of primary and specialised healthcare topics. These include conventional areas within patient care, basic science, clinical healthcare, public health, and contemporary themes like enhancing quality, prioritising patient-centric approaches, fostering leadership, and promoting innovation. These aspects are aligned with key professional competencies such as:
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Patient care
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Knowledge
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Practice-based learning and improvement
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Ethics and professionalism
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Systems-based medicine
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Interpersonal and communication skills
4. Target audience:
Our focus is catering to healthcare professionals in developing countries needing licensing, such as physicians, nurses, dentists, and those in training. Our services also extend to healthcare professionals who do not currently need licensing and laypersons.
5. Types of activities:
Accrecent offers a variety of formats for continuing medical education activities, such as webinars and internet enduring materials.
6. Expected result:
Expected outcomes encompass enhancing healthcare professional performance, competency and optimal patient outcomes. Assessment of results or learning outcomes occurs immediately after the courses conclude, involving post-assessment tests and feedback from participant evaluations. These evaluations inquire about the relevance of the course content to their professional scope, commitment to implementing changes, and strategies aimed at integrating the content into clinical practices to enhance patient outcomes. Learners' indications regarding their weekly patient caseload enable forecasting the potential positive impacts of practice modifications on patients.
We intend to conduct a follow-up refresher course in a micro-learning format, scheduled 3-6 months after the initial course. Insights from these sessions enable us to gauge the shifts in knowledge assimilation, perceptions, proficiencies, and behavioural changes/clinical methodologies in line with the session's content and learning objectives.
Additionally, this data aids in identifying impediments to implementation, contributing to the continuous enhancement of the quality of our Continuing Education Program.
ACCRECENT is an impact-driven social venture that strives to produce internationally accredited healthcare education at a low cost. We aim to improve the visibility of authors in developing countries as they are not required to pay to distribute content via our platform, www.cmepedia.com, but will be paid instead.
ACCRECENT is an in-house content provider of CMEPEDIA. Our primary revenue stream is generated by the subscriptions of Indian healthcare professionals who want to re-license paperless. The content production cost is covered by unrestricted grants by eligible companies CME funds or recovered by offering paid content.
ACCRECENT is a social venture, a sustainable enterprise or a fair trade corporation. Combining business and fair trade is the best way to generate a positive impact. We are committed to harnessing the power of business for social good. Our business model allows us to have the most significant impact and be a major player in the future of education in healthcare for developing countries.
