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Can I use the same content repeated at different times for different groups of learners to count towards meeting the critical elements and standards in the commendation criteria?
It depends on the criterion.
Frequency: Some of the criteria standards require that providers attest to meeting the criterion in a number or… More
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For the Engages Patient Criterion, do patients and/or their family members who are involved in the planning and delivery of CME activities need to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any ACCME-defined commercial interest to the provider?
Yes. Patients/families who serve as planners or faculty in CME would be in a position to control content and therefore the requirements for identifying and disclosing relevant financial relationships and resolving conflicts of interest apply.
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Do I have to include the same patients/public representatives as planners and faculty for CME activities to comply with the Engages Patients/Public Criterion?
No. The Engages Patients/Public Criterion requires that patients and/or public representatives are involved as planners and faculty of CME activities. The same people do not need to be involved as both planners and faculty.
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Can you explain what “patient/public representatives as faculty/planners” means in the Engages Patients/Public Criterion?
The Engages Patients/Public Criterion encourages the accredited provider to utilize patients, their families, and other members of the public as planners and faculty members in accredited CME. Providers have broad latitude in how they define the roles of planners and faculty – as appropriate to… More