Better Method

Recipe: A facilitator guide from a deck somebody else built

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Copilot notes now use the current product name.

You have 60 slides and a room in three days. Turn it into a guide with timings, discussion prompts, and a plan for when the session stalls.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Guide: ACCME, in plain words

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A working guidebook to the Standards, the activity file, Moore's levels, RSS, PARS, enduring materials, joint providership, and 2026 AI rules, written for CME coordinators.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Reference: AI glossary

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Plain-English definitions of common AI terms and CME working words.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Handbook: Better Method

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

From your desk now includes leadership development.

A practical AI handbook for CME coordinators, program managers, consultants, and leadership development professionals.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Contents: Build your AI workflow skills

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Short modules on context, working from your own documents, revising drafts, checking output, and relationship maps.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Recipe: Does this count? A process, not a yes

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Build a trail of where you looked for credit, MOC/CC, and state-board questions. The tool helps you log the search. It does not decide whether the activity counts.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Recipe: Enduring-module outline from a gap you already have

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Outline an on-demand module with release, review, and termination dates, credit as time to complete, and learners you can verify. The tool does not invent the medicine or the PARS record.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Downloads: Free Word templates for using AI at work

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Claude Projects storage notes now match free-account availability.

Editable Word files for voice, house style, identifier checks, number audits, AI disclosure, and office governance.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Recipe: From needs assessment to learning objectives

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Copilot notes now use the current product name.

You have survey results, a chart review finding, and a guideline update. You need objectives that tie back to the gap and survive review.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Guide: From your desk

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A by-desk map of the handbook for CME coordinators, directors, consultants, medical education companies, society staff, and leadership development.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Skill module: Maps and loops

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Search finds similar text. A map records how named things connect. CME questions are often the second kind, and a checking loop is how you use either without handing the file over.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Guide: PARS annual close

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

The checking half of PARS annual reporting: the five steps, RSS academic years, enduring cumulative learners, and what a model must never invent.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Recipe: PARS annual-close checking notes

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Turn a PARS or JA-PARS export into a close checklist and Program Summary prose without inventing a learner count or closing a series in the wrong year.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Guide: Run it as a session

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A 60-minute session plan for teams who are already prompting and still need a checking habit.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Reference: Sources and review notes

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Primary sources used to review privacy, accreditation, product, and AI accuracy guidance.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Guide: Start here

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A thirty-minute on-ramp for continuing education professionals who already prompt and need a checking habit.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Recipe: The post-activity outcomes report

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Copilot notes now use the current product name.

Turn source material into a structured outcomes-report draft while keeping every figure and claim traceable.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Reference: Tools

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A practical, dated comparison of Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude for continuing education work.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Recipe: Turning 400 evaluation comments into something you can act on

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Copilot notes now use the current product name.

The open text box is where the real feedback lives and where it goes to die. This gets you themes, counts, and the quotes that matter, without quietly softening the criticism.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Guide: What do you need?

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Two questions about your desk and this week's job, then three free files and the teaching kit.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Skill module: Working from your own documents

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

The difference between a tool that writes like the internet and one that writes like your department. This is the module that pays off over time.

Revised 20 August 2026.

Reference: AI glossary

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Plain-English definitions of common AI terms and CME working words.

Revised 18 August 2026.

Handbook: Better Method

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A practical AI handbook for CME coordinators, program managers, consultants, and leadership development professionals.

Revised 18 August 2026.

Contents: Build your AI workflow skills

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Short modules on context, working from your own documents, revising drafts, checking output, and relationship maps.

Revised 18 August 2026.

Guide: From your desk

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A by-desk map of the handbook for CME coordinators, directors, consultants, medical education companies, society staff, and leadership development.

Revised 18 August 2026.

Skill module: Maps and loops

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Search finds similar text. A map records how named things connect. CME questions are often the second kind, and a checking loop is how you use either without handing the file over.

Revised 18 August 2026.

Reference: Sources and review notes

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Primary sources used to review privacy, accreditation, product, and AI accuracy guidance.

Revised 18 August 2026.

Guide: Start here

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A thirty-minute on-ramp for continuing education professionals who already prompt and need a checking habit.

Revised 18 August 2026.

Skill module: Working from your own documents

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

The difference between a tool that writes like the internet and one that writes like your department. This is the module that pays off over time.

Revised 18 August 2026.

Guide: ACCME, in plain words

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A working guidebook to the Standards, the activity file, Moore's levels, RSS, PARS, enduring materials, joint providership, and 2026 AI rules, written for CME coordinators.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Template: Activity-file audit

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

A free Word checklist for opening a stranger’s CME activity folder: what must be found, what AI may draft, and what must not be reconstructed.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Reference: AI glossary

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Plain-English definitions of common AI terms and CME working words.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Contents: AI workflow recipes

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Task-based, checked AI workflows for continuing education work.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Recipe: An IME needs narrative from evidence you already hold

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Draft the gap, objectives, and outcomes plan for a grant or joint-providership proposal without taking the supporter’s language into the education.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Handbook: Better Method

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A practical AI handbook for CME coordinators, program managers, consultants, and leadership development professionals.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Recipe: Cases and items from a gap you already have

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Draft vignettes, questions, distractors, and rationales from the practice gap and the medicine you supply. The tool does not invent the clinical facts.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Recipe: Does this count? A process, not a yes

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Build a trail of where you looked for credit, MOC/CC, and state-board questions. The tool helps you log the search. It does not decide whether the activity counts.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Recipe: Enduring-module outline from a gap you already have

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Outline an on-demand module with release, review, and termination dates, credit as time to complete, and learners you can verify. The tool does not invent the medicine or the PARS record.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Downloads: Free Word templates for using AI at work

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Editable Word files for voice, house style, identifier checks, number audits, AI disclosure, and office governance.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Guide: From your desk

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

A by-desk map of the handbook for CME coordinators, directors, consultants, medical education companies, society staff, and leadership development.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Guide: Guardrails

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

What not to paste, what to check first, and how to decide in ten seconds, including learner-facing AI.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Recipe: Joint-providership walk-through

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Who owns the file, what each side may draft, and a planning memo that does not invent the accreditation statement or treat the arrangement as a legal partnership.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Guide: PARS annual close

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

The checking half of PARS annual reporting: the five steps, RSS academic years, enduring cumulative learners, and what a model must never invent.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Recipe: PARS annual-close checking notes

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Turn a PARS or JA-PARS export into a close checklist and Program Summary prose without inventing a learner count or closing a series in the wrong year.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Recipe: Program-analysis prose from counts you already have

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Linked the PARS annual-close companion and checking recipe.

Turn PARS numbers, eval summaries, and last year’s notes into self-study or year-end narrative without inventing a trend or bumping an outcome level.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Template: Session-file checklist

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

A free one-page Word checklist for this week’s regularly scheduled series session: gap, disclosure, mitigation, announcement, eval, and attendance.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Reference: Sources and review notes

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Primary sources used to review privacy, accreditation, product, and AI accuracy guidance.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Guide: Start here

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A thirty-minute on-ramp for continuing education professionals who already prompt and need a checking habit.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Recipe: Supporter outcomes: promised level versus measured

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

A 90-day outcomes dialect for grant-funded education: the Moore level you promised, the level you measured, and a number audit that will not promote competence into performance.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Recipe: The post-activity outcomes report

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Turn source material into a structured outcomes-report draft while keeping every figure and claim traceable.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Recipe: The weekly RSS packet

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Grand rounds is not one activity. It is a new session every week: announcement, disclosure reminder, session objective, and eval questions, without inventing a gap you do not have.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Reference: Tools

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A practical, dated comparison of Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude for continuing education work.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Guide: What do you need?

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Two questions about your desk and this week's job, then three free files and the teaching kit.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Reference: What's changed

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Every revision to the handbook, newest first, with a note on what changed.

Revised 17 August 2026.

Template: AI disclosure and activity-file log

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

A free Word template to disclose AI use in a CME activity: a copyable sentence for materials and a one-page log of who reviewed the output.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Reference: AI glossary

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Plain-English definitions of common AI terms and CME working words.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Contents: AI workflow recipes

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Task-based, checked AI workflows for continuing education work.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Recipe: An IME needs narrative from evidence you already hold

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Draft the gap, objectives, and outcomes plan for a grant or joint-providership proposal without taking the supporter’s language into the education.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Handbook: Better Method

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A practical AI handbook for CME coordinators, program managers, consultants, and leadership development professionals.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Recipe: Cases and items from a gap you already have

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Draft vignettes, questions, distractors, and rationales from the practice gap and the medicine you supply. The tool does not invent the clinical facts.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Recipe: Chasing disclosures without pasting the forms

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

The volume work of Standard 3: reminders, a relevance screen from facts you already hold, and a mitigation note. The forms themselves stay out of the tool.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Recipe: Faculty email you stop dreading

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Pointed the disclosure caution to the new Standard 3 recipe.

Invitations, chasing disclosures, deadline reminders, and the third follow-up to the busy cardiologist. The unglamorous volume work where your week actually goes.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Downloads: Free Word templates for using AI at work

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Editable Word files for voice, house style, identifier checks, number audits, AI disclosure, and office governance.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Guide: Guardrails

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

What not to paste, what to check first, and how to decide in ten seconds, including learner-facing AI.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Template: Office AI governance

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

A free Word one-pager for a CME office: approved tools, staff versus faculty versus learner rules, never-paste list, and named owner.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Recipe: Program-analysis prose from counts you already have

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Turn PARS numbers, eval summaries, and last year’s notes into self-study or year-end narrative without inventing a trend or bumping an outcome level.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Guide: Run it as a session

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A 60-minute session plan for teams who are already prompting and still need a checking habit.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Recipe: Screen a talk for commercial bias

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

You have an outline or a transcript, not a marketing deck. Flag promotional language, missing balance, product names, and logos before the session is accredited.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Reference: Sources and review notes

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Primary sources used to review privacy, accreditation, product, and AI accuracy guidance.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Guide: Start here

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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.

A thirty-minute on-ramp for continuing education professionals who already prompt and need a checking habit.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Recipe: The post-activity outcomes report

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

Turn source material into a structured outcomes-report draft while keeping every figure and claim traceable.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Recipe: The weekly RSS packet

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Grand rounds is not one activity. It is a new session every week: announcement, disclosure reminder, session objective, and eval questions, without inventing a gap you do not have.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Reference: Tools

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

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

A practical, dated comparison of Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude for continuing education work.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Template: Using AI in accredited CE

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

A free one-page Word handout on using AI in accredited continuing education: the shape-versus-facts split, January and April 2026 rules, and where to go next.

Revised 16 August 2026.

Recipe: A facilitator guide from a deck somebody else built

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

You have 60 slides and a room in three days. Turn it into a guide with timings, discussion prompts, and a plan for when the session stalls.

Revised 29 July 2026.

Recipe: Faculty email you stop dreading

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Invitations, chasing disclosures, deadline reminders, and the third follow-up to the busy cardiologist. The unglamorous volume work where your week actually goes.

Revised 29 July 2026.

Skill module: Fix the draft, don't start over

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Most people abandon a draft that was 80% right and start again. The second draft is where the quality is, if you know what to ask for.

Revised 29 July 2026.

Recipe: From needs assessment to learning objectives

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

You have survey results, a chart review finding, and a guideline update. You need objectives that tie back to the gap and survive review.

Revised 29 July 2026.

Skill module: Knowing when not to trust it

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

One rule covers most of it. The rest is a short list of things that go wrong predictably, and three habits worth making automatic.

Revised 29 July 2026.

Recipe: Rehearsing the conversation you have been putting off

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Use a fictionalized scenario to rehearse a difficult conversation, then review what you said and what you avoided.

Revised 29 July 2026.

Skill module: The context you forgot to give

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

A disappointing result often points to missing context. Five details can make the next attempt easier to review and use.

Revised 29 July 2026.

Recipe: The post-activity outcomes report

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

Turn source material into a structured outcomes-report draft while keeping every figure and claim traceable.

Revised 29 July 2026.

Recipe: Turning 400 evaluation comments into something you can act on

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

The open text box is where the real feedback lives and where it goes to die. This gets you themes, counts, and the quotes that matter, without quietly softening the criticism.

Revised 29 July 2026.

Skill module: Working from your own documents

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First published.

The difference between a tool that writes like the internet and one that writes like your department. This is the module that pays off over time.

Revised 29 July 2026.