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Disclosures Relevant to Potential Commercial Bias

If a live activity is turned into an enduring material, do faculty disclosure and acknowledgement of commercial support still need to be made?.
Yes. The new CME activity, must demonstrate compliance with all applicable ACCME accreditation requirements, including faculty disclosure and acknowledgement of any commercial support (SCS 6). For CME activities including those in...
Can I link to disclosure information from within an Internet CME activity?
No. In August 2007, the ACCME clarified its policy on Internet CME to describe disclosure that was an active as opposed to passive process. The clarification to the policy is...
Can a provider allow oral or written reporting of scientific research by an employee of a commercial interest during a CME activity?
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...
Can a provider offer education on medical devices and still be in compliance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria?
Further explanation: One of our CME courses is an intensive hands-on course that trains physicians to perform vascular interventions in a laboratory setting. The training is primarily about newer medical devices...
If we have taken appropriate steps to resolve conflicts of interest what is there left to disclose?
Informed learners are the final safeguards in assuring that a CME activity is independent from commercial influence. Regarding personal conflicts of interest, CME providers are to have in place mechanisms...
What does the ACCME mean by nature of the relationship related to providing disclosure to learners in SCS 6.1?
The nature of the relationship means the role they play or service they provide in exchange for some form of compensation (e.g., independent contractor including contracted research, consulting, promotional speaking...
What does SCS 6.2 add to the system?
This allows the learners to distinguish between missing disclosure information and the circumstances where there is nothing to disclose.
Is disclosure of commercial support different than disclosure of financial relationships?
Yes. Commercial support is financial, or in-kind, contributions given by a commercial interest, which is used to pay all or part of the costs of a CME activity. This is...
Can a commercial supporter's logo be used to acknowledge support?
While the logo can appear, the provider cannot acknowledge support only by showing the commercial supporter's logo. The acknowledgement needs to specifically tell the learner that the commercial supporter gave...
Who needs to disclose relevant financial relationships to me and to the learners who participate in my activities?
After evaluating over 300 accredited providers, using the 2006 Accreditation Criteria, we find that about 50% of providers are out of compliance with one of the Criteria one through fifteen,...