Colorectal Cancer Screening: Reducing Health Disparities and Improving Screening - 2025

Active project dates

May 8, 2025 – November 14, 2025.

This 6-month MOC improvement project is intended for our internal Primary Care clinicians.
Access code required to register.

Learning Objectives

Following this improvement project, participants will be able to: 

  • Understand the science behind colorectal cancer screening options and colonoscopy frequency recommendations
  • Define the colorectal cancer screening measures including patients of color and by payor
  • Analyze colorectal cancer screening measure data to identify health disparities that exist within personal practice
  • Adopt strategies, tools and resources to close health equity gaps in colorectal cancer screening rates
  • Report an increase in:
    • overall colorectal cancer screening rates
    • colorectal cancer screening rates for patients of color
    • colorectal cancer screening rates for government payer patients
  • Report a decrease in:
    • disparity gap rates in race and/or payor
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 20.00 Attendance
    This program is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing’s requirements. It is the responsibility of each nurse to determine if the program meets the criteria for licensure or recertification in their discipline.
Course opens: 
04/07/2025
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
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Steps to Earn and Claim CME Credit:

  1. Reflect on your personal practice and practice data identifying barriers to improvement
  2. View the following:
    • Colorectal Cancer Screening Update including MOC Project Overview
    • Addressing Health Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Screening
  3. Throughout the project, review patient data and identify and apply strategies to reduce barriers
  4. Reflect on outcomes to determine whether the intervention strategies resulted in improvement. If no improvement occurred, reflect on potential reasons
  5. Complete project evaluation, MOC Reflection/Attestation and CME credit verification in CMEcentral by November 26, 2025
Planning Team and *Presenter:

*Magda Bushara, MBBS; Clinical Medical Director, HealthPartners
Greg Fedio; Project Manager, Quality and Measures, Park Nicollet
Ann Tarnowski; Program Manager, Continuing Certification (MOC) & PI CME, Park Nicollet

The presenters and members of the planning committee have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

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Disclosure and Content Validation

HealthPartners is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

HealthPartners Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this PI CME activity for a maximum of 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This program is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing’s requirements for advanced practice nurses. It is the responsibility of each nurse to determine if the program meets the criteria for licensure or recertification in their discipline.

MOC Board equivalent credits  
This 6-month improvement project meets the following medical boards’ MOC Part IV* requirements for Physicians and Category 1 PI-CME credit.
   *Family Medicine: Performance Improvement Activity (20 Points)
   *Internal Medicine: Practice Assessment (30 Points)
   *NCCPA: 30 PI-CME Credits

Available Credit

  • 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 20.00 Attendance
    This program is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing’s requirements. It is the responsibility of each nurse to determine if the program meets the criteria for licensure or recertification in their discipline.
Please login or register to take this course.


This activity is intended for our internal audience only.
A login using the HealthPartners Login with your network credentials is required.

Once you are logged in to your account, enter the access code and click Start to continue.

If you have already registered and are returning to the project, click Start to continue.

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Select HealthPartners Login and enter your employee network ID and network password. Even if this is your first time using CMEcentral, simply log in and complete your profile. Do not create a new account!

Internal Audience applies to all HealthPartners Employees and Contract Staff, including HealthPartners, Park Nicollet, TRIA, Westfields Hospital, HPCMC, Hudson Hospital, PNBConline.Com, Lakeview Hospital and Clinics, Amery Medical, HutchHealth

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