SACME Virtual Journal Club November

Celebration of the Decades - 2000s

Moore’s Framework for Evaluation of
CME/CPD Outcomes and it’s Evolution 

November 17, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Free for SACME Members / $30 Non-Members

Session Overview

Join us for this series sessions as we continue to remember seminal publications in continuing medical education (CME) and continuing professional development (CPD) over the past 50 years. We will have a rare opportunity to revisit important literature and hold conversations with scholars who have made major contributions to our field.

The Outcomes Framework developed by Moore, Green, and Gallis 2009¹, often presented as a hierarchy or pyramid, provides a systematic way to plan CME/CPD activities and assess the impact of those CME/CPD activities on clinician knowledge, skills, and attitudes; clinician performance; patient health status; and/or population health. The 2009 paper expands on the framework described in Moore 2003² and adds elements of instructional design described in Moore 2008.³

The central message of the framework is that CME/CPD planners should use a "backward planning" approach to instructional design that starts with identifying a desired change in patient outcomes or physician performance and continuing to work backward to design an educational intervention more likely to achieve those outcomes. Interventions that are more likely to produce desired outcomes include opportunities for learners to (1) deliberately practice the capabilities they will need to achieve the desired outcomes and (2) receive expert feedback to monitor the development of those capabilities.

In this session, using a Q&A format, Don will share his story of how the “Moore’s Outcomes Framework” came to be and how his thinking evolved. You will have the opportunity to ask the questions you may have always wanted to ask him.

As always, we welcome your thoughts and perspectives and hope to see you engaged in our VJC.

Presenter

Don Moore, PhD

Professor of Medical Education and Administration, Emeritus

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 

Host and Facilitator

Mila Kostic, CHCP, FACEHP