The ACCME requires accredited providers to understand the issues with knowledge or competence or performance that underlie a professional practice gap. Problems with knowledge, competence or performance that...
ACCME's Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS)
Friday, December 18, 2009
Manuscript review CME is based on a learner’s participation in the pre-publication review process of a manuscript.
The Program Summary is a summary of the income and expense attributable to your CME Program for the year. The Program Summary reflects two kinds of data:
- first, the aggregation of income and expense...
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 ...
When you report Learning from Teaching CME in PARS, aggregate your data for Learning from Teaching CME for all learners into one activity. For hours of instruction, specify the amount of time you believe a learner would take to...
Providers have two options for entering their activity data in batches:
For more information about...
When reporting Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS) in PARS, each series should be reported as one activity. In addition, the...
Performance improvement activities are based on a learner’s participation in a project established and/or guided by a provider in which a...
Yes, PARS is now being used as a tool for providers to submit information during the accreditation...
When an organization first applies for ACCME accreditation, it self-selects its organization type. ACCME uses this information for reporting and analysis purposes. Providers may not change their organization type...
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...
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...
“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...
If you provide the same activity in multiple locations (e.g., update course) or provide the same activity year after year (e.g., annual meeting), you can save time entering data about these activities by using the copy...
By default, the Activities page of PARS displays “open” activities that occur during the current Reporting Year. If you enter all required activity information, but no longer see the...
When you report Manuscript Review CME in PARS, report each journal for which the manuscript is being reviewed as an activity regardless of how many manuscripts there are and regardless of how many persons have...
Each year, the ACCME collects, summarizes, and publishes information about the CME enterprise on its website as a service to accredited providers, other members of the CME community, and the public. via the ACCME’s Program and...
Providers may determine when and with how much frequency to enter their activity data. PARS is now available for use and the ACCME encourages providers to begin inputting data as...
PARS data will not be accessible to the public. Accredited providers will have secure logins and their information will only be shared in accordance with ACCME's...
Test item writing is a CME activity based on a learner’s participation in the pre-publication development and review of any type...
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...
ACCME defines non-physician participants as attendees other than MDs and DOs, such as nurses, physician assistants, and other health professionals. Include residents in this category.
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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...
Annually, ACCME aggregates the activity data that is reported by providers and publishes an Annual Report that provides information to the CME community about the size and scope of the CME enterprise. The “Reporting Year” tells...