Last week on the blog I talked about my presidential focus on furthering patient-centered care (read the blog post here). A big component of this focus will be education, one of the four pillars of the ACC. In an effort to provide the requisite breadth and depth of content to meet the needs of all our members across care teams, we have identified and are already hard at work on several endeavors:

• We will inaugurate our Lifelong Learning Portfolio on CardioSource.org along with point-of-care tools that provide the clinician a perspective on competency requirements and individual practice gaps using proven learning formats and experiences to drive continual practice improvements. We will also provide Maintenance of Certification tools for both Part II and Part IV to ensure all our members can maintain their competency.
• We will keep all our members abreast of competency requirements.
• We will launch, this year, our first annual curriculum planning process, based on newly published competencies, registry data, and aggregate educational outcomes.
• We are devising an innovative blended learning strategy to support knowledge transfer to practice by delivering a sequence of learning experiences across live and online learning channels.

I invite you all to leave your ideas, comments and suggestions below. I look forward to identifying the possibilities and shaping the future of cv care together.