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Criterion 10

The provider actively promotes improvements in health care and NOT proprietary interests of a commercial interest (SCS 5).

ACCME Note: 

Providers are expected to ensure that their CME programs and activities advance the public interest without bias that would influence health professionals to overuse or misuse the products or services of a commercial interest.
 

Related Standards

Standard 5: Content and Format without Commercial Bias

Standard 5.1 The content or format of a CME activity or its related materials must promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.  
Standard 5.2 Presentations must give a balanced view of therapeutic options. Use of generic names will contribute to this impartiality. If the CME educational material or content includes trade names, where available trade names from several companies should be used, not just trade names from a single company.