Tutorial

Enhances Skills

This tutorial offers educational resources to help providers achieve compliance with the criteria in the “Enhances Skills” category of the Menu of Criteria for Accreditation with Commendation.

The commendation criteria in the “Enhances Skills” category reward providers that design CME to… More

FAQ

What is the Program Summary?

The Program Summary is a summary of financial resources available to your Program of CME/CE. Report data for the most recent 12-month period you have available. If your organization is the accredited provider for a jointly provided activity, you are required to report the same financial data… More

Compliance Library Example

Mission: #2

In fulfillment of our CME mission, we strive to educate physicians and other members of the care team on valid and independent content that is relevant to their practice and that contributes to improvements to their strategies, skills, performance and coordination as healthcare teams.

Video

What Do You Want to Change?

A discussion of ACCME's expectations and the role of CME providers in facilitating change in learners, with Dion Richetti, ACCME Vice President for Accreditation & Recognition. This video was produced to be used in conjunction with participation in the Accreditation Workshop.

Publications

Outline for the Self-Study for ACCME Reaccreditation for the March, July, and November 2022 Cohorts

For reference by organizations receiving accreditation decisions in March, July & November 2022

This document includes the questions that organizations will be asked to respond to in completing the Self-Study Report form.  It is provided for informational purposes… More

Testimonial

Dartmouth-Hitchcock: Improving Faculty Development

Training Faculty as Mentors and Coaches: Research has shown that most doctors avoid having advance care planning conversations, largely because they don’t feel confident in leading them. In response, we used mentoring to improve internal medicine residents’ skills in advance care planning… More

FAQ

Are measures of team performance acceptable for the Improves Performance Criterion?

Yes. Providers can demonstrate that CME activities improve the performance of individuals or groups of learners—including teams—to meet the expectations of the Improves Performance Criterion.

FAQ

Can compliance with the Improves Healthcare Quality Criterion be achieved at the activity level?

Yes. You would need to show that, through your CME activities, you are collaborating in the process of healthcare quality improvement and demonstrate that the activity/activities resulted in healthcare quality improvement at least twice during the accreditation term.

FAQ

If we planned an in-person, multi-day activity that is switching to a virtual format, would it now be considered a regularly scheduled series (RSS)?

If your organization is converting an in-person activity to a virtual format, it should be appropriately identified in PARS as such. In general, if you are changing a single live, in-person CME course to a live, virtual format, that activity should be categorized instead as a "live-streamed"… More

Compliance Library Example

Analyzes Change: #3

The provider collects data about the change in learners’ competence by using audience response from case studies and skills workshops. The provider uses these data to draw conclusions about its CME program’s impact on changing learners’ competence.