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Demonstrating Compliance
No. For guidance on the nature of documentation that the ACCME will expect to review at the time of reaccreditation, please see the ACCME's performance-in-practice review requirements and instructions and...
Yes, as long as the CME activity complies with the ACCME's Accreditation Criteria, including the ACCME® Standards for Commercial SupportSM. It is understood and accepted that industry conducts its own...
Yes. That documentation would verify that the first step of a mechanism for identifying conflicts of interest is in place. That would document for ACCME that the Provider knew the...
ACCME expects to be able to review income and expense statements for all CME activities. These statements must reflect:
Significant sources of income: Including income from commercial support, advertising and exhibit...
The ACCME does not require accredited providers to measure patient outcomes -- neither in their CME Mission (Criterion 1), activity planning (Criterion 3), nor evaluation of CME activities (Criterion 11)....
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...
Providers should always take the position that the ACCME’s Criteria shouldn’t limit them in what they’re doing, but should offer them the opportunity to do what makes sense and what’s...
C6 talks about desirable physician attributes. There’s a range of attributes. We chose this term so not to restrict anyone to the ACGME or ABMS competencies. Institute of Medicine articulated...
So there’s two parts to it. There’s the process of it and there’s the content of it. You go out and seek information, you find information, you interpret information that’s...
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...
One of the parts that’s required in accreditation, accreditation by the ACCME, is that we look for verification of implementation of the Criteria. But we don’t want to turn accreditation...
Regularly scheduled series of an institution are an important part of the continuing medical education enterprise in the whole country, and certainly within many accredited providers. Some accredited providers, 80...
The ACCME Accreditation Criteria can be looked at as an algorithm for planning. But they don’t need to be rigid and seen as inflexible and sequential and over a certain...
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...
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...
