We’re proud of the partnerships we work with to bring high-quality presentations, conferences, and modules to our members.
For more than 30 years, MECOP has focused on advancing the clinical and professional knowledge of physicians and multidisciplinary teams. Our CME events are collaborative efforts with our partner organizations and include live grand rounds presentations, annual conferences, collaborative quality, and performance improvement presentations as well as Internet and enduring modules.
Founded in June 2000, serving the unique needs of Floridians. FSU COM is designed as a community-based medical school where students spend their first two years taking basic science courses on FSU's campus in Tallahassee, followed by being assigned to one of nine regional medical school campuses for their third and fourth years. FSU COM is accredited by the LCME and partners with MECOP for AMA/ACCME accreditation of its faculty education and for Learning from Teaching Credits for all nine regional campuses. MECOP also provides accreditation for FSU COM’s geriatric institute, as well as its Autism center modules and FSU College of Law’s collaborative conference with the College of Medicine.
An HCA-affiliated hospital with an acute care hospital, the area's only comprehensive CARF-accredited rehabilitation hospital and behavioral health facility. West Florida has received an 'A' Rating in Patient Safety from the Leapfrog Group since Fall of 2015. They were the first Accredited Chest Pain Center and Breast Imaging Center of Excellence in Pensacola, and the first hospital in the state of Florida to earn the Atrial Fibrillation with Electrophysiology Services Accreditation. They are an Advanced Primary Stroke Center and offer specialized ER services tailored to seniors as well as children. West Florida Hospital was a founding member of MECOP and uses MECOP accreditation for its quality improvement programs in surgery, cancer care, cardiology and overall performance improvement.
An association that represents academic obstetrician-gynecologists in the US and Canada, offering contemporary teaching tools for physician-educators, and learning mechanisms for faculty - with the ultimate goal of providing optimum health care to women. APGO began partnering with MECOP in 2014 to offer ACCME accreditation of three annual conferences, along with some Internet-based modules and monographs targeted towards updates in treating common women's health issues.
Founded in 1997 to educate patients, support physicians, and provide invaluable resources for otolaryngology centers throughout Florida. It is now the largest group of ENT physicians in Florida. NFO partnered with MECOP in 2015 when they were no longer able to partner through the state of Florida for ACCME/AMA accreditation. MECOP accredits their "Business of Medicine" webinars, a monthly web meeting tailored to topics that ENT physicians need in order to maintain practice compliance. MECOP will also soon support NFO's PA program education.
A privately held membership organization based in Tampa, Florida, providing the platform, technology solutions and new health programs in a collaborative environment to primary care providers with the sole purpose of achieving better health outcomes. Physician Partners is centered on spreading better ways of delivering proactive health care, rather than simply building better versions of the same old reactive, sick care model that persists today. Physician Partners, Inc., works with MECOP to accredit its monthly membership-wide meeting, as well as its performance improvement meetings, which target primary care providers with tailored approaches for improving outcomes in their practice and communities.
A pediatric-focused practice group with locations in Broward County, Jacksonville, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, St. Lucie and Tampa, Florida. Pediatric Associates' mission is to deliver the best and most comprehensive medical services to newborns through age 21. They strive to be every family's total resource for raising healthy, happy children. Pediatric Associates partners with MECOP for accreditation of its quarterly organization-wide CME meeting, where physicians and mid-levels receive the latest practice and protocol updates as well as evidence-based guidelines for common conditions presenting across their pediatric practices. These meetings are also supplemented with follow-up support emails and materials to encourage practice change.
A Pensacola professional association of MDs and DOs that addresses political, social and economic issues concerning the level and delivery of healthcare for patients and physicians. ECMS partners with MECOP for accreditation of its quarterly membership meetings that aim to address practice management and policy updates that affect Florida physicians in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
An Alma Mater organization for the Jaffna Medical Faculty based out of Sri Lanka. They are a committed group of past students and teachers who are like minded in their mission to improve medical education and health care delivery in the communities and countries that they now serve, which span the globe. MECOP has worked with JAFFNA for more than 10 years now via local liaison Andy Somesan, MD. MECOP provides accreditation for its annual meeting whereby members come together to discuss 4-8 clinical conditions and health policy changes that impact global health.
A non-profit coalition that encourages active, nature-based recreation to address public health crises, as well as to engage communities in outdoor experiences that achieve healthier lifestyles and sustain Florida's natural resources. Get Outdoors works with MECOP to provide accreditation for its live and internet-based CME program that targets primary care providers with strategies that they can implement in practice to prescribe exercise and outdoor recreation.