What's changed
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84 revisions since the handbook was published. Last one 20 August 2026.
August 2026
- A facilitator guide from a deck somebody else built Recipe
Copilot notes now use the current product name.
- 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.
- AI glossary Reference
Headline now covers AI and CME words. Project and MOC/CC entries match 2026 plan limits and board-language shifts.
- Build your AI workflow skills Contents
Framed the skill path for people already prompting, not as an experiment.
- 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.
- 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.
- Free Word templates for using AI at work Downloads
Claude Projects storage notes now match free-account availability.
- From your desk Guide
Added a leadership-development desk: rehearsal, facilitator guide, evals, and the 360 stop.
- Maps and loops Skill module
Opened with the Tuesday split (search vs connections) instead of the graph-versus-RAG slogan.
- PARS annual close Guide
Noted that ACCME’s annual-reporting page may still show last cycle’s deadline well into the year.
- PARS annual-close checking notes Recipe
Noted that ACCME’s annual-reporting page may still show last cycle’s deadline well into the year.
- 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.”
- 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.
- Start here Guide
Dropped the week-one framing. Named the bounce most people already lived through, and split the jammed next-step paragraph.
- Tools Reference
Noted the Microsoft Copilot rename. ChatGPT and Claude Projects are no longer described as paid-only.
- Turning 400 evaluation comments into something you can act on Recipe
Copilot notes now use the current product name.
- Working from your own documents Skill module
Claude Projects are no longer paid-only. Copilot notes use the current product name.
- AI glossary Reference
Added knowledge graph, GraphRAG, and loop, and tied RAG to the maps-and-loops split.
- Better Method Handbook
Skill path now includes a fifth module on relationship maps and checking loops.
- Build your AI workflow skills Contents
Added Maps and loops as a fifth module, on relationship maps versus passage search.
- Maps and loops Skill module
First published. When a relationship map beats passage search, and a checking loop for CME files.
- Sources and review notes Reference
Added RAG, GraphRAG, ReAct, sycophancy, and Moore 2009 sources for the maps-and-loops module.
- Working from your own documents Skill module
Pointed from reusable files to the maps-and-loops module on relationships and checking loops.
- ACCME, in plain words Guide
First published, including enduring materials, joint providership, and a pointer to the PARS close companion.
- 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.
- AI workflow recipes Contents
Added PARS close, joint providership, enduring-module, supporter-outcomes, and credit-count recipes.
- An IME needs narrative from evidence you already hold Recipe
Linked the supporter-outcomes dialect for the 90-day report after the activity.
- Better Method Handbook
Added the ACCME guidebook, a Start from your desk route, the need poll, and links through to the PARS close companion.
- Cases and items from a gap you already have Recipe
Linked the enduring-module recipe for on-demand items.
- 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.
- 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.
- Program-analysis prose from counts you already have Recipe
Linked the PARS annual-close companion and checking recipe.
- 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.
- 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.
- The post-activity outcomes report Recipe
Linked the supporter-outcomes dialect for grant-funded 90-day reports.
- Tools Reference
Added matrix rows for PARS close, joint providership, enduring modules, supporter outcomes, and the credit-count process.
- What do you need? Guide
First published. A short poll that routes to free recipes, templates, and the 60-minute teaching kit.
- What's changed Reference
Now lists revisions to guides, templates, and reference pages, not only recipes and skill modules.
- 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.
- AI workflow recipes Contents
Description now covers RSS packets, disclosure chasing, and commercial-bias screens, for people who already prompt.
- Better Method Handbook
Repositioned for staff who already use AI. Added a Keep the file clean route to the disclosure log.
- Free Word templates for using AI at work Downloads
Starter pack now includes the AI disclosure log and the office governance sheet.
- Guardrails Guide
Added a stop for ungoverned learner-facing AI, unpublished faculty slides to check first, and a pointer to the disclosure log.
- 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.
- Sources and review notes Reference
Added the ACCME 2024 Data Report, McMahon 2025 JCME paper, Alliance 2025 AI survey, and the Alliance AI position.
- 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.
- The post-activity outcomes report Recipe
Linked the year-end program-analysis recipe for PARS and self-study narrative.
- Tools Reference
Added matrix rows for RSS packets, disclosure chasing, commercial-bias screens, cases, IME narratives, and program analysis.