An Enduring CME/CE Activity

Bridging the Efficacy-Effectiveness Gap: Real-World Strategies to Improve Schizophrenia Outcomes is a complimentary CME/CE activity designed to provide psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners with the latest research and information about schizophrenia. This activity will discuss the applicability of recent study results, real-world measurement of outcomes, and strategies to promote adherence and manage medical comorbidities.

This activity consists of a 1-hour prerecorded presentation, followed by a posttest and evaluation form. Successful completion is achieved by listening to the educational presentation and submitting the completed activity evaluation and posttest prior to the expiration date, June 30, 2008. Eligible participants will receive up to 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ or 1.2 Contact Hours (CHs).


John M. Kane, MD
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry
The Zucker Hillside Hospital
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Glen Oaks, New York


Dial-In Teleconference or Download the MP3 file!
To particpate in this activity, you may either listen to the archived presentation via a dial-in teleconference or you may download an MP3 audio file and listen to the presentation on your iPod or other personal audio device.


Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:

• Differentiate effectiveness research from traditional efficacy trials
• Explain proposed definitions of schizophrenia remission and how they must affect measurement of treatment outcomes
• Identify strategies to assess outcomes that can be readily used in day-to-day practice
• Name approaches to measuring and improving treatment adherence
• Integrate relevant medical comorbidity screening strategies into clinical practice

The Center for Health Care Education, LLC (CHCE), is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


CHCE designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This continuing nursing education activity is approved by CHCE for 1.2 Contact Hours (CHs). CHCE is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

In addition, all other attendees will be issued a certificate of participation that lists the designated credits.

To receive credit, participants must listen to the recorded audio and complete the evaluation and posttest and submit to CHCE.

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