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No. ACCME accreditation is awarded to the organization that sought the accreditation and was able to demonstrate compliance with ACCME's Accreditation Requirements. See "Informing ACCME of Personnel or Organizational Changes"...
See "Informing ACCME of a Provider's Personnel or Organizational Changes."
Yes. The ACCME publishes a library of Examples of Compliance and Noncompliance gathered during the course of the accreditation review process. Additionally, the Education section of the ACCME website provides a...
No, there are no special ACCME requirements for activities that ACCME-accredited providers hold overseas. All activities provided by ACCME-accredited providers must comply with ACCME's Accreditation Requirements, regardless of their location.
No. The accredited provider is required to record learner participation and be able to verify learner participation for six years from the date of the CME activity. See ACCME's policies...
Joint sponsors are expected to routinely have a role in making decisions about the elements of the planning process specified in SCS 1.1. Since these decisions must be "made free...
As of August 2007 the ACCME defined a commercial interest as "any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients." The...
Yes. Please see the Rule Making Policy at ACCME for information about this process.
Perfectly. The ACCME Accreditation Criteria require that all CME activities planned and implemented by an accredited provider address educational needs derived from a professional practice gap of the provider's own...
No, you do not. Some Criteria address your overall CME program, while others relate to CME activities. For each CME activity, you need to demonstrate compliance with Criteria 2 -...
Criterion 1 says, "expected results articulated in terms of changes in competence, performance, or patient outcomes that will be the result of the program." What definition of "competence" is ACCME...
In 2002, the ACCME adopted special policy for Regularly Scheduled Series in healthcare institutions, in academic medical centers. Regularly Scheduled Series are what people call grand rounds. They’re the education...
Early in our transition to making accreditation decisions using the Updated Criteria we’ve seen some common themes and what providers are doing and how they’ve been operating that have produced...
It might be valuable to spend some time here in these discussions and upon reflection inside your own organizations, to stand back and look at the Accreditation Criteria overall. Where...
We’re often asked whether the mission statement needs to specify certain patient outcomes as the expected result of the accredited provider's CME program. And the answer is clearly no. In...
Providers frequently ask us whether or not a knowledge-based activity is fair and in compliance with ACCME’s requirements. They ask us this because in the mission statement, in Criterion 2,...
There’s a lot of ways to make these measurements that I’m talking about. There’s a whole world of psychometrics where wonderfully crafted multiple choice questions, large numbers of them written...
The 2006 Accreditation Criteria are about the improvement of your continuing medical education program, as well as the improvement that you’re trying to assist your learners with. Shewhart and Deming...
These Criteria are applicable to all of the organizational types, to all sizes of organizations, to all nature of persons who are contributing to the leadership of continuing medical education....
A question we are being asked now is whether or not providers have to fulfill all 22 of the Accreditation Criteria for every activity. And the answer is no. The...
Confidentiality of information in accreditation of continuing medical education is important. Let’s talk about this for a moment. ACCME some time ago made it clear that accredited providers and the...
