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- Council of Medical Specialty Societies Awards the CAP $100,000 Grant to Improve Diagnostic Excellence
The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS), a coalition of 48 specialty societies, awarded the CAP $100,000 grant to study how to make pathology reports more patient-centered and understandable. The CAP will use the grant to improve the patient experience of a cancer diagnosis related to the pathology report. The CAP welcomes the opportunity from the Council of Medical Specialty Societies to help identify patient priorities in pathology reports and create recommendations around patient-centered pathology reports.
These awards result from a competitive grant program administered by the CMSS and funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore for medical specialty societies to support the development of resources and programs to promote the topic of diagnostic excellence for clinician audiences.
Medical specialty societies are well-positioned to educate and disseminate effective strategies that advance diagnostic excellence among their members through educational programs, including accredited CME, peer-reviewed journals, clinical guidelines, research, and clinical registries.
In addition to selecting and providing grants to individual societies, CMSS will serve as a coordinating center to monitor and promote cross-specialty learning, improvement, collaboration, and identification of best practices in diagnostic excellence that can be shared with the broader medical community.