CME Mission Statement
Reviewed, updated, and approved by CME Committee October 2025
PURPOSE:
The Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) creates, enhances, and disseminates state-of-the-art resources and models of excellence and performs research to control and eliminate tuberculosis in the United States and internationally. Committed to the belief that everyone deserves the highest quality of care in a manner consistent with their culture, values, and language, we develop and deliver highly versatile, culturally appropriate trainings and educational products, and provide technical assistance.
CONTENT AREAS:
Included among our tuberculosis educational offerings are updates in clinical care medicine/programmatic protocols, research information, best practice recommendations for clinical care, and information on new treatment regimens and diagnosis methods.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Our mission is to provide education, medical consultation, and technical assistance to local, regional, national, and international healthcare programs and providers who work with tuberculosis patients (public/private). This includes pulmonologists, radiologists, infectious disease practitioners, nurse practitioners, and other associated health professionals.
TYPES OF ACTIVITIES PROVIDED:
CITC offers in-person courses, internet live courses, and blended learning. Each activity may include:
- Didactic lectures
- Skills-based workshops
- Interactive case-based learning sessions
EXPECTED RESULTS:
Our continuing professional medical education developmental program is designed to enhance patient care and outcomes by educating physicians and other healthcare professionals to make accurate, up-to-date decisions in their daily practice by improving their professional practice competence and/or performance.
After each CME activity, we expect learners will report back to provide an update of their newly acquired skill(s), assess their greater confidence/progress in implementing these skills, or report their intention of modifying key issues they have identified in their own practice. We expect upon follow-up with learners that they report improved competence and effective use of their newly acquired skill(s) and/or knowledge.
CITC is committed to a CME program with the expected result of changes in the areas of: a) physicians’ strategies, or skills and abilities to perform essential tasks; b) perceived self-efficacy in clinical practice, c) physician performance, and d) patient health outcomes. These results, in turn, are aimed at improved patient outcomes that may one day lead to the elimination of tuberculosis.