Continuing Education at Boston Children’s Hospital is passionately committed to improving patient care and safety by providing high-quality, interprofessional education programs to healthcare professionals across the globe.
Each course is thoughtfully designed to enable practitioners to navigate the demands of the ever-changing healthcare landscape and to successfully apply their findings in practice.
We offer a wide range of accredited activities for health care providers to advance their professional development, education and training. Our in-person and online courses are designed and taught by leading experts in pediatric medicine and span a variety of health care topics, specialties, and innovations.
Learn more at our take a course page or visit the course site below.
Boston Children’s Hospital’s mission is to provide the highest quality healthcare; enhance the health and well-being of children and families locally, regionally, nationally and internationally; be the leading source of pediatric research and discovery; and educate the next generation of leaders in child health.
In honor of this mission, Boston Children’s will continue to be recognized locally, regionally, nationally and internationally as a premier provider of up-to-date healthcare education, technological advancements, and skills development to physicians and other healthcare professionals. Boston Children’s will promote excellence in medical information to improve the quality of healthcare within and beyond the hospital setting.
Continuing Education shall address the intellectual and practical needs of its learners by offering structured presentations of recent scientific advances and new clinical knowledge while creating innovative learning experiences that center upon interactive dialogue between learners and faculty. Boston Children’s recognizes healthcare professionals as lifelong learners and strives to provide valuable pediatric opportunities through Continuing Education as well as other effective resources, e.g., fellowships, residencies and observerships.
The educational content contained in our Continuing Education activities is planned in accordance with the ACCME’s Standards for Commercial Support – Standards to Ensure the Independence of CME Activities. Courses are planned to promote the dissemination of recent clinical and scientific advancements, clinical quality improvement (CQI), patient safety, medical leadership and the six core competencies:
The ultimate goal is to provide further medical education to physicians and other healthcare professionals so they may practice high-quality patient care resulting in better outcomes.