ACCME created this flowchart to help accredited CME providers navigate the identification of relevant financial relationships and the resolution of conflicts of interests in CME activities (Criterion 7). Use...
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Last Revised:
February 23, 2017
Published on:
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Last Revised:
February 23, 2017
Published on:
Thursday, February 23, 2017
ACCME created this PowerPoint Slide Presentation as a teaching tool to accompany the ACCME Flowchart for Identifying and Resolving Personal Conflicts of Interest. The flowchart helps accredited CME providers...
Published on:
Thursday, February 16, 2017
No. Standard 3 of the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support: Standards to Ensure the Independence of CME Activities requires that all commercial support received by an accredited provider for a CME activity be controlled...
Published on:
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Graham McMahon, MD, MMSc, President and CEO, offers accredited CME providers strategies and reminders to help ensure compliance with the ACCME’s Standards for Commercial Support: Standards to Ensure Independence in CME Activities...
Published on:
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Message from the CEO
Opportunities for Engagement
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Last Revised:
April 30, 2015
Published on:
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Yes. Effective April 2015, providers can use tabs, links, or other electronic mechanisms to make disclosure information available to learners, just as they have always been able to make disclosure available via a tabbed section in...
Published on:
Thursday, April 30, 2015
The Executive Summary of the March 2015 Meetings of the ACCME Board of Directors includes information on accreditation decision-making, maintenance of recognition, the international substantial equivalency process, consistency in...
Published on:
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
No. Standard 2.1 requires the provider to identify relevant financial relationships of those who control the content of a CME activity in order to identify conflicts of interest. Two things must be present for there to be...
Last Revised:
May 29, 2014
Published on:
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Yes. The organization you describe is not an ACCME-defined commercial interest....
Last Revised:
April 23, 2014
Published on:
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
The ACCME made these modifications in March 2014 because it determined that the logos of...
Last Revised:
August 22, 2013
Published on:
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Disclosure is an expectation in Criterion 7 for both...
Last Revised:
August 22, 2013
Published on:
Thursday, August 22, 2013
No. ACCME considers relationships of the person involved in the CME activity to include financial relationships of a spouse or partner. The ACCME expects that providers will communicate to everyone who is in a position to control...
Last Revised:
April 23, 2014
Published on:
Friday, November 11, 2011
No, according to Standard 6.4 of the Standards for Commercial SupportSM...
Published on:
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Analysis of the Call for Comment Regarding Disclosure of Commercial Support 603_20110811
Q&A about Modifications to Standards for Commercial Support
As we ...
Last Revised:
February 16, 2017
Financial relationships are those relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria for promotional speakers’ bureau, ownership interest (e.g.,...
Compliance reminders from recent accreditation reviews
When we conduct accreditation reviews we seek to identify...
Understanding the Role of CME Planners
After evaluating over 300 accredited providers, using the 2006 Accreditation Criteria, we find that about 50% of providers are out of compliance with one of the Criteria one through fifteen, requiring a Progress Report. The...
ACCME Removes Restrictions on Electronic Methods of Disclosure
In a continuing effort to simplify compliance expectations and make them consistent across...
Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
ACCME has never recommended withholding CME credit at the last minute as an alternative to producing CME that is in compliance with accreditation requirements. It does not seem fair to the physician learners. Assuming that in this...
Presentation at ACC Meeting: Safeguarding CME from Commercial Influence
Murray Kopelow, MD, President and CEO, ACCME, gave a presentation at ...
As we conduct accreditation reviews we seek to identify recurring issues that need to be brought to the accredited provider community’s attention for correction. We bring the following examples and resources...
Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
Discussion of off-label uses are certainly allowed in CME activities. However, providers are no longer required to have a mechanism in place to ensure that off-label or investigational uses are disclosed as such. The ACCME adopted...