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Accreditation with Commendation

Does the ACCME require hospital-based CME programs to become part of their organization's Quality Improvement Department?
No. Criterion 21 requires that the provider, "participates within a institutional or system framework for quality improvement", but does not specify the manner in which this is achieved. Criterion 21...
How does the ACCME's focus on collaboration (C20-22) help further the impact of CME on physician performance, institutional quality, and patient health?
It is expected that CME providers will enhance the impact of CME in their system, or micro system, when they are in collaborative or cooperative alliances with other stakeholders in...
What are some examples of non-educational strategies as mentioned in C17?
Examples of a "non-educational strategy to enhance or facilitate change as an adjunct to activities or educational interventions" would be, 1) implementing a mechanism to send reminders to participants following...
Can you explain the ACCME Accreditation Criteria expectations for Accreditation with Commendation
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....
What are the ACCME’s expectations for providers regarding collaboration and cooperation, as articulated in Criterion 20?
ACCME recognizes that all accredited providers work in a system. And in a system, when the interconnected pieces are operating together, there’s an enhancement of the capability of the entire...
How do providers use non-educational or adjunctive strategies to creatively enhance change beyond CME activities?
The literature shows that educationalists, educational systems, education itself, can change what people know and what people want to do. Education enables people to do something differently. When those individuals...