- Web-based Interface - By clicking “Add an Activity” on the Activities page, you can enter data about activities one at a time. The web-based interface is a good option for organizations that only provide a...
Using the Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS)
When all of your activities for the Reporting Year are completed and "Closed", and you have verified the income and expense...
If your organization assigns an internal code or identifier to each of its CME activities, you may enter it into this field.
The Provider Activity ID field is optional when entering single activities using the PARS...
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...
In a co-sponsorship relationship, if the commercial support is distributed amongst the accredited providers, each accredited provider should report the amount it receives. It is also...
Hours of instruction and AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ designated may be the same or may be different. AMA PRA Category 1 Credits Designated is an optional field in...
No longer than three years. The ACCME policy on enduring materials requires both an original release date and an expiration date. In addition, the ACCME policy requires that you review each enduring material at least once every...
An important concept in PARS is that of “open” and “closed” activities. Open activities are those that have a minimum set of data entered for them: specifically, activity name, activity type, activity date, and, if applicable,...
When you report Internet Searching and Learning CME in PARS, aggregate and report all your data for Internet Searching and Learning CME for all learners into one activity. For hours of instruction, specify the...
Individuals who are designated as a Primary Contact, Billing Contact and/or CEO of an ACCME-accredited organization may access PARS with a unique login ID and password. Additionally, any of those three...
For providers receiving accreditation decisions in November 2011 or later, for reaccreditation purposes, you will be required to submit data about activities that you provided...
When you click on the Batch Upload Activities button in PARS, to begin the batch upload process, you are prompted to indicate whether you are batch uploading activities that occurred in a “Reporting Year 2011 or...
Yes. Organizations must complete all of the fields on the Program Summary. If your organization did not have any programmatic income or expense for the year, you should enter zero (“0”) into each of the...
An internet enduring material activity is available when the physician participant chooses to complete it. It...
No. Please report the total number of non-resident MDs and DOs who participated in the activity, even if they did not seek CME credit for attending.
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) and ...
Yes. The ACCME has put together several tools for you to use related to uploading your activity data in batches using the Tab-Delimited Batch Upload feature in PARS. If you have not already...
Providers have two options for entering their activity data in batches:
For more information about...
When you report Journal-Based CME in PARS, report each article as one activity. For hours of instruction, specify the amount of time required to complete the activity. The number of participants should equal the total number of...
Yes, PARS is now being used as a tool for providers to submit information during the accreditation...
Performance improvement activities are based on a learner’s participation in a project established and/or guided by a provider in which a...
Yes, the accredited provider must report the full amount of commercial support received, even if the commercial support is distributed to other non-accredited joint sponsors.
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 on the range of educational formats...
“Description of Content” is an optional field for a description of the information and topics that were discussed during the CME activity. There is no specified...
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