Publications

AMA and ACCME Announce Call for Comment on Proposal to Align Credit and Accreditation Systems

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the ACCME® opened a call for comment on their proposal to simplify and align their expectations for accredited continuing medical education (CME) activities that offer the AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Comments will be accepted through May 25, 2017, at 5… More

Blog entry

New Commendation Criteria Resources

We’ve developed several new resources in response to your requests, as part of our ongoing efforts to support the CME community’s successful adoption of the Menu of Criteria for Accreditation with Commendation. 

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Events

Committee for Review and Recognition (CRR) Meeting

Regular meeting of the Committee for Review and Recognition.  The CRR is one of three "working" committees which report to the Board of Directors. The CRR synthesizes data to formulate recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding the recognition status of state medical societies that wish… More

Events

Committee for Review and Recognition (CRR) Meeting

Regular meeting of the Committee for Review and Recognition.  The CRR is one of three "working" committees which report to the Board of Directors. The CRR synthesizes data to formulate recommendations to the Board of Directors regarding the recognition status of state medical societies that wish… More

Publications

ACCME Standards for Commercial Support

This is a PDF of the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support: Standards to Ensure the Independence of CME ActivitiesSM (SCS) designed for your easy reference in two-column format with a cover page.

Please note: The Standards for Commercial Support expire on 12/31/21. The new Standards for… More

Personnel

Sebastian Orr

Sebastian manages ACCME’s monitoring and surveillance systems. He assists in the management of complaints, audits of CME activities that count for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and are compliant with FDA Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS), and the accreditation decision-making… More

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ACCME’s Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS): Release Notes

Date Implemented: February 9, 2024

  • PARS performs a credit match – resulting in the creation of a CME credit that corresponds to the MOC/CC learner credit reported for any collaborating certifying board. This process will be performed weekly.

Date Implemented: December 14… More

ACCME Report

Submit Your Proposal for ACCME 2022; Free Standards Webinar Tomorrow 10/28; Maryland Board of Physicians Joins ACCME and State Medical Boards Collaboration

News

SUBMIT YOUR ACCME 2022 MEETING PROPOSALS BY NOVEMBER 5 

We want to hear from you during the ACCME 2022 Meeting! We encourage you and your teams to send in submissions to our Call for Proposals, which will be open until Friday, November 5, at 11:59 pm CT. We are soliciting… More

FAQ

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 meet the criterion in a number or percentage of… More

Compliance Library Example

Program Improvements: #3

The provider indicated that upon review of its effectiveness, no changes or improvements were required.  

Rationale: Criterion 13 asks the… More