The Institute for International Medicine’s (INMED) Continuing Medical Education program’s mission is to be an innovative medium, advocate for, and a provider of medical education that promotes evidence-based change, professional development, and patient outcome improvement.
Purpose: The INMED Continuing Medical Education program’s purpose is to offer quality, evidence-based educational opportunities that are developed to promote physician competence, professional development in leadership, cross-cultural skills and bioethics, and strive to improve patient outcomes in the populations served by the health care providers whom we educate.
Content Areas: INMED’s Continuing Medical Education program content will include: clinical medicine and basic science research, reviews of current or best practice recommendations for clinical care, procedural skills development and exercises, cross-cultural skills development, as well as professional development in bioethics, and health care leadership.
Target Audience: INMED’s Continuing Medical Education program seeks to serve the educational needs of physicians, medical students, medical residents and other healthcare professionals (allied health personnel, physician extenders, basic scientists, and researchers) with a focus on local and state health care colleagues.
Types of Activities and Services Provided: As a Continuing Medical Education provider at a non-profit educational organization, our education activities include live courses, live online courses, and live events that will include seminars, symposiums, reoccurring courses, and conferences. In addition to live educational activities, INMED will provide online enduring materials. The educational design, instructional method, and learning format for each event is chosen to best serve the educational needs and learning objectives of the planned educational activity.
Expected Results: INMED’s Continuing Medical Education program expects that those learners receiving our educational services will report competence and the effective use of targeted skills obtained from our Continuing Medical Education educational program.
Physicians: Institute for International Medicine is accredited by the Kentucky Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
INMED CME Accreditation Certificate coming soon.
The Institute for International Medicine (INMED) itself delivers a variety of continuing medical education activities that provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Consistent with its mission to promote vision and skill, INMED offers two streams of continuing education for healthcare professionals.
INMED also offers joint providership to accredit continuing medical education activities that are hosted by other institutions.
INMED offers joint-providership to accredit Continuing Education activities that are hosted by other institutions. In this context, INMED is dedicated to facilitating innovative medical education that promotes evidence-based change, professional development, and improved patient outcomes. Continuing Medical Education provided through INMED is AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM .
For questions regarding joint providership, please contact: [email protected]
Todd Franks joined INMED’s staff in the summer of 2020. He graduated from Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Secondary Teaching Certificate. After six years of teaching English, Spanish, and English as a Second Language to high school students, Todd became a full-time pastor. He then spent the next six years leading a youth group as well as ministry to immigrants and refugees. Todd’s passion is to live out Matthew 5:16: “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” He and his wife live in Raytown with their two sons and are active members of their church in Kansas City.
Fred Loper is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. As a third-year medical student, he was part of the founding of Good Shepherd Ministries Medical Clinic – a faith-based, not-for-profit clinic that serves the uninsured people of Oklahoma City to this day. After completing his residency at the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Loper served as a primary care physician at Central Oklahoma Medical Group (COMG). In 1986, he was appointed as the National Missionary for Medical Missions for a North American mission board, and in 2005, he became Executive Director of Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship, leading physicians, dentists and other health professionals in volunteer healthcare service in the US and abroad. In 2012, Dr. Loper returned to Good Shepherd Ministries Medical Clinic to serve as their full-time medical director and completed his active practice career as an Associate Physician at Community Health Centers of Oklahoma, a Federally Qualified Health Center.
