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CME Basics-General
A course is identified as a regularly scheduled series (RSS) when it is planned to have
a series with multiple sessions that
occur on an ongoing basis (offered weekly, monthly, or quarterly)...
ACCME-accredited providers must provide CME that contains content which falls within the definition of CME. The content of such CME must not promote recommendations, treatment or manners of practicing medicine...
All CME activities developed and presented by an accredited provider, including those designated for credit, become part of that provider's program of CME . The program must be in compliance...
No. Nonphysicians can be faculty at a CME activity.
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.
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...
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...
Learning from teaching is a descriptive label for a type of CME activity. (The identification of activity types by the ACCME serves to allow the ACCME to report data and information...
A course is a live CME activity where the learner participates in person and which is planned on a one-by-one basis and designated for credit as a single activity. (Examples:...
An internet live course is an online course available at a certain time on a certain date and is only available in real-time, just as if it were a course...
An enduring material is a printed, recorded, or computer-presented CME activity that may be used over time at various locations and which, in itself, constitutes a planned activity. In an...
An internet enduring material activity is available when the physician participant chooses to complete it. It is “enduring,” meaning that there is not just one time on one day to participate...
A journal-based CME activity includes the reading of an article (or adapted formats for special needs), a provider stipulated/learner directed phase (that may include reflection, discussion, or debate about the...
Manuscript review CME is based on a learner’s participation in the pre-publication review process of a manuscript.
Test item writing is a CME activity based on a learner’s participation in the pre-publication development and review of any type of test-item (e.g., multiple choice questions, standardized patient cases).
Test Item Writing CME activities may consist of either of the following processes:
When questions are written for an ‘item pool’ from which they are later drawn to build a variety...
Committee learning is a CME activity that involves a physician learner’s participation in a committee process where the subject of which, if taught/learned in another format would be considered within...
Performance improvement activities are based on a learner’s participation in a project established and/or guided by a provider in which a physician identifies an educational need through a measure of his/her...
Internet searching and learning activities is based on a learner identifying a problem in practice and then accessing content in search for an answer from sources on the Internet that are...
Yes. The ACCME Glossary explains how the ACCME uses terms, definitions, and references within the ACCME accreditation system.
