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Revision history

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84 revisions since the handbook was published. Last one 20 August 2026.

August 2026

  1. A facilitator guide from a deck somebody else built Recipe

    Copilot notes now use the current product name.

  2. ACCME, in plain words Guide

    Switched outcome and enduring figures to the 2025 Data Report. Noted that ACCME’s annual-reporting page may still show last cycle’s deadline.

  3. AI glossary Reference

    Headline now covers AI and CME words. Project and MOC/CC entries match 2026 plan limits and board-language shifts.

  4. Better Method Handbook

    From your desk now includes leadership development.

  5. Build your AI workflow skills Contents

    Framed the skill path for people already prompting, not as an experiment.

  6. Does this count? A process, not a yes Recipe

    Flagged the 2026 collaborating-board movement and kept the stop: open ACCME’s current MOC page, do not memorize the list.

  7. Enduring-module outline from a gap you already have Recipe

    Enduring share updated to the 2025 Data Report: about 44 percent of activities, and about two thirds of learner interactions.

  8. Free Word templates for using AI at work Downloads

    Claude Projects storage notes now match free-account availability.

  9. From needs assessment to learning objectives Recipe

    Copilot notes now use the current product name.

  10. From your desk Guide

    Added a leadership-development desk: rehearsal, facilitator guide, evals, and the 360 stop.

  11. Maps and loops Skill module

    Opened with the Tuesday split (search vs connections) instead of the graph-versus-RAG slogan.

  12. PARS annual close Guide

    Noted that ACCME’s annual-reporting page may still show last cycle’s deadline well into the year.

  13. PARS annual-close checking notes Recipe

    Noted that ACCME’s annual-reporting page may still show last cycle’s deadline well into the year.

  14. Run it as a session Guide

    Replaced the three-weeks segment with the bounce people already lived through. The participant handout now explains the model without “tokens.”

  15. Sources and review notes Reference

    Replaced the 2024 Data Report with the 2025 report. Added the summer 2026 data updates. Claude Projects are no longer listed as paid-only.

  16. Start here Guide

    Dropped the week-one framing. Named the bounce most people already lived through, and split the jammed next-step paragraph.

  17. The post-activity outcomes report Recipe

    Copilot notes now use the current product name.

  18. Tools Reference

    Noted the Microsoft Copilot rename. ChatGPT and Claude Projects are no longer described as paid-only.

  19. Turning 400 evaluation comments into something you can act on Recipe

    Copilot notes now use the current product name.

  20. What do you need? Guide

    Added a leadership-development desk and a hard-conversation job.

  21. Working from your own documents Skill module

    Claude Projects are no longer paid-only. Copilot notes use the current product name.

  22. AI glossary Reference

    Added knowledge graph, GraphRAG, and loop, and tied RAG to the maps-and-loops split.

  23. Better Method Handbook

    Skill path now includes a fifth module on relationship maps and checking loops.

  24. Build your AI workflow skills Contents

    Added Maps and loops as a fifth module, on relationship maps versus passage search.

  25. From your desk Guide

    Skill-module timing now matches the five-module path.

  26. Maps and loops Skill module

    First published. When a relationship map beats passage search, and a checking loop for CME files.

  27. Sources and review notes Reference

    Added RAG, GraphRAG, ReAct, sycophancy, and Moore 2009 sources for the maps-and-loops module.

  28. Start here Guide

    Next-step timing now covers five skill modules, a little over an hour.

  29. Working from your own documents Skill module

    Pointed from reusable files to the maps-and-loops module on relationships and checking loops.

  30. ACCME, in plain words Guide

    First published, including enduring materials, joint providership, and a pointer to the PARS close companion.

  31. Activity-file audit Template

    First published.

  32. AI glossary Reference

    Linked the introduction to the ACCME guidebook, gave each term a stable URL fragment, and added CME and checking words the handbook already uses: enduring material, MOC/CC, ACCME, practice gap, commercial support, author of record, and learner interaction.

  33. AI workflow recipes Contents

    Added PARS close, joint providership, enduring-module, supporter-outcomes, and credit-count recipes.

  34. An IME needs narrative from evidence you already hold Recipe

    Linked the supporter-outcomes dialect for the 90-day report after the activity.

  35. Better Method Handbook

    Added the ACCME guidebook, a Start from your desk route, the need poll, and links through to the PARS close companion.

  36. Cases and items from a gap you already have Recipe

    Linked the enduring-module recipe for on-demand items.

  37. Does this count? A process, not a yes Recipe

    First published.

  38. Enduring-module outline from a gap you already have Recipe

    First published.

  39. Free Word templates for using AI at work Downloads

    Added the session-file checklist and the activity-file audit. They stay out of the starter pack.

  40. From your desk Guide

    First published, then wired to the session-file and activity-file checklists, PARS close, joint providership, enduring modules, supporter outcomes, the credit-count process, and the need poll.

  41. Guardrails Guide

    Linked the January 2026 AI disclosure note to the ACCME guidebook.

  42. Joint-providership walk-through Recipe

    First published.

  43. PARS annual close Guide

    First published.

  44. PARS annual-close checking notes Recipe

    First published.

  45. Program-analysis prose from counts you already have Recipe

    Linked the PARS annual-close companion and checking recipe.

  46. Session-file checklist Template

    First published.

  47. Sources and review notes Reference

    Added the Standards, criteria, annual reporting, joint providership, enduring, RSS definition, and MOC/CC pages, and pointed readers at the ACCME guidebook as a map.

  48. Start here Guide

    Pointed next steps at the ACCME guidebook, From your desk, the need poll, PARS close, joint providership, and the credit-count process.

  49. Supporter outcomes: promised level versus measured Recipe

    First published.

  50. The post-activity outcomes report Recipe

    Linked the supporter-outcomes dialect for grant-funded 90-day reports.

  51. The weekly RSS packet Recipe

    Pointed the after-you-send-it step at the session-file checklist.

  52. Tools Reference

    Added matrix rows for PARS close, joint providership, enduring modules, supporter outcomes, and the credit-count process.

  53. What do you need? Guide

    First published. A short poll that routes to free recipes, templates, and the 60-minute teaching kit.

  54. What's changed Reference

    Now lists revisions to guides, templates, and reference pages, not only recipes and skill modules.

  55. AI disclosure and activity-file log Template

    First published.

  56. AI glossary Reference

    Added CME working words: activity file, commendation, credit designation statement, ineligible company, IPCE, joint providership, mitigation, Moore's levels, PARS, RSS, and Standard 3.

  57. AI workflow recipes Contents

    Description now covers RSS packets, disclosure chasing, and commercial-bias screens, for people who already prompt.

  58. An IME needs narrative from evidence you already hold Recipe

    First published.

  59. Better Method Handbook

    Repositioned for staff who already use AI. Added a Keep the file clean route to the disclosure log.

  60. Cases and items from a gap you already have Recipe

    First published.

  61. Chasing disclosures without pasting the forms Recipe

    First published.

  62. Faculty email you stop dreading Recipe

    Pointed the disclosure caution to the new Standard 3 recipe.

  63. Free Word templates for using AI at work Downloads

    Starter pack now includes the AI disclosure log and the office governance sheet.

  64. Guardrails Guide

    Added a stop for ungoverned learner-facing AI, unpublished faculty slides to check first, and a pointer to the disclosure log.

  65. Office AI governance Template

    First published.

  66. Program-analysis prose from counts you already have Recipe

    First published.

  67. Run it as a session Guide

    Reframed for people already prompting. Added an optional 20 minutes to write the office disclosure sentence. The time objection now cites the Alliance survey.

  68. Screen a talk for commercial bias Recipe

    First published.

  69. Sources and review notes Reference

    Added the ACCME 2024 Data Report, McMahon 2025 JCME paper, Alliance 2025 AI survey, and the Alliance AI position.

  70. Start here Guide

    Opened with the Alliance finding that 95 percent of CME/CPD staff already use AI. Added next steps for RSS, the disclosure log, and IME narratives.

  71. The post-activity outcomes report Recipe

    Linked the year-end program-analysis recipe for PARS and self-study narrative.

  72. The weekly RSS packet Recipe

    First published.

  73. Tools Reference

    Added matrix rows for RSS packets, disclosure chasing, commercial-bias screens, cases, IME narratives, and program analysis.

  74. Using AI in accredited CE Template

    First published.

July 2026

  1. A facilitator guide from a deck somebody else built Recipe

    First published.

  2. Faculty email you stop dreading Recipe

    First published.

  3. Fix the draft, don't start over Skill module

    First published.

  4. From needs assessment to learning objectives Recipe

    First published.

  5. Knowing when not to trust it Skill module

    First published.

  6. Rehearsing the conversation you have been putting off Recipe

    First published.

  7. The context you forgot to give Skill module

    First published.

  8. The post-activity outcomes report Recipe

    First published.

  9. Turning 400 evaluation comments into something you can act on Recipe

    First published.

  10. Working from your own documents Skill module

    First published.