The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) brought together a spectrum of continuing medical education (CME) leaders and the ACCME Board of Directors to address the challenges and opportunities facing accredited CME in 2010 and beyon...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is continuing the testing phase of its Program & Activity Reporting System (PARS). First announced by the ACCME in June 2008, PARS is a web-based portal, designed to streamline and suppo...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) announces that Debra Perina, MD, and Richard Reiling, MD, were named 2010 Chair and Vice Chair of the ACCME at the conclusion of the Board of Directors meeting, he...
The Accreditation Council for CME (ACCME) focused its 2009 education and outreach efforts on supporting accredited continuing medical education (CME) providers as they fulfill the expectations of the 2006 ACCME Accreditation Criteria. These expanded initiat...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is continuing its discussions on transparency. These deliberations include the transparency of its Complaints and Inquiries Process. Through this process, the ACCME conducts careful, accurat...
The Accreditation Council for CME (ACCME) has released the...
Dated material. For current PARS information, please visit the Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) page.
The Program & Activity Reporting System, a web-based po...
The Accreditation Council for CME (ACCME) proudly presents the 2009 Robert Raszkowski, MD, PhD, ACCME Hero Award to the following ACCME volunteers. Their extraordinary commitment and generosity of time and expertise enable the ACCME to fulfill its mission o...
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has appointed Murray Kopelow, MD, Chief Executive, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) as a special advisor. Dr. Kopelow is one of several experts appointed by the OND...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) has released a summary of its Board of Directors meeting, held July 16-17, 2009, at its Chicago offices.
The Board reviewed the ...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) has several reminders for accredited providers and an announcement about a new standard accreditation interview format for ACCME-accredited providers.
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Chief Executive Murray Kopelow, MD, testified yesterday about the value and independence of the accredited CME system before a hearing held by the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging addressing conflicts of...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) is proud to announce that it is hosting "Fundamentals of Assessment in Medical Education" (FAME), an intensive and interactive workshop designed and presented by experts from the Foundation for Advancement...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) is pleased to share examples of actual provider practices that were reviewed through the accreditation process over the past several months as the ACCME has completed its transition to the 2006 Accreditat...
The ACCME routinely updates its "Ask ACCME" section of its website to reflect real-world questions regarding accreditation requirements and aspects of CME planning, implementation, and evaluation. As we post these updates, we alert (via E-mail Alert) accredited CME provi...
In the 2007 AHRQ Report on "The Effectiveness of CME," Marinopoulos et al. voiced a strategy to help advance research on CME stating, "leaders in medical education could develop a national agenda on what is needed to improve the effectiveness of CME."
On September...
Beginning this year, the ACCME will share more data than has previously been made public about ACCME accreditation and accredited providers via the ACCME website.
For a discussion of this approach to transparency,...
The ACCME was invited to present testimony at the first meeting of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Planning a Continuing Health Care Professional Education Institute held December 11-12, 2008 in Washington, DC. Following that meeting, the ACCME submitted it...
Upon request for clarification by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) responded about the application of Stark II regulations and CME that is delivered in the hospital setting. This cl...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) has submitted its response to the Senate Special Committee on Aging. This response addresses the Special Committee's request for information on “the accreditation process for CME courses; any criteria the...
