ACCME Standards for Commercial Support^SM

Including Tools for Implementation

 

Download a copy of ACCME Standards for Commercial Support^SM

 

The ACCME is pleased to provide a set of ACCME Standards for Commercial Support tools for use by the CME community.  These tools are designed to help organizations understand ACCME’s meaning and expectations and to provide documents to support accredited providers in the implementation of practices that comply with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support.

 

This toolkit contains the following documents and materials:

 

Background

· Preamble to ACCME Standards for Commercial Support

· Identifying and Resolving Conflicts of Interest

· Implementation Timeline for the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support Standards

· Frequently Asked Questions about ACCME Standards for Commercial Support

Self-assessment tools

· Provider Self Assessment on Readiness to Demonstrate Compliance with ACCME Standards for Commercial Support

· PowerPoint Presentation: “Who Wants to be Accredited?”

Education tools

· PowerPoint presentation: “ACCME Standards for Commercial Support” (updated 6/20/2005)

· PowerPoint presentation: “Managing Conflicts of Interest” (updated 6/20/2005)

· Using Research, Professional Opinions, and Organizational Practices to Help Validate ACCME Standards for Commercial Support: A Teaching Tool

Implementation Tools

· Current Definitions and Interpretations from ACCME

· SAMPLE: A Learner’s Bill of Rights

· SAMPLE Faculty Correspondence:

• Letter to Identify Relevant Financial Relationships

• Form to Identify Relevant Financial Relationships

• Letter to Identify Relevant Financial Relationships with Form Embedded

• Letter of Expectations Following Faculty Disclosure to Provider

· SAMPLE: Written Agreement for Commercial Support

Complete Toolkit

ACCME’s Tools in Support of Implementation of the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support (click to download a 972KB .ZIP file containing all of the documents listed above) (updated 06/06/2007)

The ACCME welcomes your suggestions for additional needed materials. As always, the ACCME appreciates your commitment to quality continuing medical education for physicians.

 

Note: The ACCME is offering these implementation tools not as finite interpretations of its policies, but as examples that providers have requested to give them ideas and foundations with which work can begin. Organizations should feel free to adapt these tools to their specific CME programs. Providers are not required or expected to use these resources.