SVU-CME Information Kit

CONTENTS

• Continuing Medical Education
• Credit Guidelines
• Instructions for Obtaining SVU-CME Credits
• CME Fees
• Responsibilities
• Program Director Checklist

FORMS

• Application includes Application and Review Committee Evaluation Form
  • PDF (requires Acrobat Reader)
  • Microsoft Word
• Follow-up Materials includes Attendance Record, Attendee Program Evaluation and Summary, and Quarterly Program Summary
  • PDF (requires Acrobat Reader)
  • Microsoft Word

PREFACE

In 1984 the Society for Vascular Ultrasound (SVU) established a mechanism for technologists to earn continuing medical education credit hours on a local and national level. Originally called Vascular Technology Credits (VTCs), the name has been changed to Society for Vascular Ultrasound-Continuing Medical Education (SVU-CME) credit hours to better define this continuing education mechanism.

Provided certain criteria are met, SVU will grant CME credit hours for educational programs at the local, regional, and national level. SVU-CME credit hours also are granted for SVU’s annual and regional conferences, and the Journal for Vascular Ultrasound examinations. Additionally, SVU-CME may be granted for web-based courses and programs offered on the internet.

Over the years, these credits have provided technologists within all ultrasound specialties a practical way of maintaining their registry through the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS), the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT), and Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI). More recently, as requirements for Vascular Laboratory Accreditation have increased the demand for continuing education relevant to Vascular Technology, physicians, technologists and sonographers have benefited from SVU-CME approved programs.

SVU’s Continuing Education Committee oversees the evaluation and approval process for the SVU-CME program and applies continuous improvement practices to restructuring the application and review process. The latest SVU-CME Information Kit and Application are the result of SVU’s efforts to create a simplified and concise application process. We hope that this will lead to increased numbers of SVU-CME programs being offered nationwide.

Thanks to all of the SVU members who contributed to the development of this project.

Sam Wagner-Sevy, RVT, RDCS, RVS
2007 Chair, Continuing Medical Education Committee

Vicki Gatz, MPH, RVT
2007 Co-Chair, Continuing Medical Education Committee

January 2008