Vivacity Consulting - Medical Education Solutions

08/21/2025

Vivacity Consulting Celebrates 15 Years!

05/30/2025

I'm excited to participate as faculty in the upcoming Southern California Medical Education Council (SCMEC) HumpDay Huddle, July 16, 2026 at 9:30 am, discussing the ACCME Standards of Integrity and Independence. Everyone is welcome to participate!

Learn more and register here:

The Southern California Medical Education Council (SCMEC) is a non-profit 501-c3 of Continuing Medical Education professionals whose purpose is to enhance the performance of Continuing Medical Education professionals and the quality of CME programming.

04/11/2025

I've been invited to present at the upcoming ACCME Learn to Thrive Conference, April 23-25 2025! We will walk through the nitty gritty of ways in which you can achieve one of the Commendation Criteria.

https://www.accmemeeting.org/

Let me know if you are planning to attend?

07/01/2021

While attending the Southern California Medical Education Council ( SCMEC ) virtual meeting yesterday, I learned about a good resource to bookmark: www.accme.org/new-pars

The ACCME is expecting to release PARS 3.0 this summer, 2021, and all of the updates will be posted here.

Get ready for an easier to use system with robust reporting, simplified data entry, and the ability to mark activities that might meet Commendation Criteria.

We’re excited to give you a preview of our new, improved Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS). See below for key features and screenshots. We’ll update this webpage regularly — so check back for the latest. Reflecting feedback from providers and other stakeholders, the new version of P...

02/23/2021

Learn an Excel trick that will save you a TON of time when you are working on your Performance in Practice (PiP) files for an ACCME or CMA reaccreditation! You can find the video here:

Combine two columns of text in Excel

12/30/2020

Check out my new video, where I describe the nuances of the ACCME's new "ineligible company" terminology!

The ACCME released the new Standards for Integrity and Independence in December 2020. This video reviews the new definition of ineligible companies and the e...

12/21/2020

The recently revised their Standards for Commercial Support. This video is intended to give you an overview of the changes and help you think through updates your organization will need to make before January 1, 2022 when the new Standards will be mandatory. Even if your organization does not accept commercial support or if your planners and faculty rarely have any relevant financial relationships to disclose, you will have to make changes!

12/02/2020

Watch this if you, too, are suffering from Zoom fatigue. Hang in there folks!

Get together with Olive and Mabel. Still having to do it all online. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Olive-Mabel-Me-Life-Adventures/dp/1785303228/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch...

11/06/2020

I was selected to serve as a committee member for the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions's Diversity, Inclusion and Access Committee. We held our first committee meeting today via Zoom. I am excited to support the Alliance's efforts to increase awareness, increase mentorship opportunities, and curate resources to help our members! cc: Jacob Coverstone

08/29/2020

Thank you, SAGES, for the medal of recognition for the 2020 Virtual Meeting. It’s my honor to work with all of you!