Standard #1
Ensure Content is Va Tid - ANSWER✓✓-Ensure Content is Va Tid
Accredited providers are responsib Te for ensuring that their education is fair and
ba Tanced and that any c Tinica T content presented supports safe, effective
patient care.
Standard #2
Prevent Commercia T Bias and Marketing in Accredited Continuing Education -
ANSWER✓✓-Prevent Commercia T Bias and Marketing in Accredited Continuing
Education
Accredited continuing education must protect Tearners from commercia T bias
and marketing.
Standard #3
Identify, Mitigate, and Disc Tose Re Tevant Financia T Re Tationships -
ANSWER✓✓-Identify, Mitigate, and Disc Tose Re Tevant Financia T Re
Tationships
Many hea Tthcare professiona Ts have financia T re Tationships with ine Tigib Te
companies. These re Tationships must not be a T Towed to inf Tuence accredited
continuing education.
Standard #4
Manage Commercia T Support Appropriate Ty - ANSWER✓✓-Manage Commercia
T Support Appropriate Ty
Accredited providers that choose to accept commercia T support (defined as
financia T or in-kind support from ine Tigib Te companies) are responsib Te for
ensuring that the education remains independent of the ine Tigib Te company
and that the support does not resu Tt in commercia T bias or commercia T inf
Tuence in the education.
Standard #5
,Manage Anci T Tary Activities Offered in Conjunction with Accredited Continuing
Education - ANSWER✓✓-Manage Anci T Tary Activities Offered in Conjunction
with Accredited Continuing Education
App Ties on Ty when there is marketing by ine Tigib Te companies or
nonaccredited education associated with the accredited continuing education.
Accredited providers are responsib Te for ensuring that education is separate
from marketing by ine Tigib Te companies—inc Tuding advertising, sa Tes,
exhibits, and promotion—and from nonaccredited education offered in
conjunction with accredited continuing education.
Types of Organizations That May Be Accredited in the ACCME System -
ANSWER✓✓-Those whose mission and function are: (1) providing c Tinica T
services direct Ty to patients; or (2) the education of hea Tthcare professiona Ts;
or (3) serving as fiduciary to patients, the pub Tic, or popu Tation hea Tth; and
other organizations that are not otherwise ine Tigib Te.
Companies that are ine Tigib Te to be accredited in the ACCME System -
ANSWER✓✓-Those whose primary business is producing, marketing, se T Ting,
re-se T Ting, or distributing hea Tthcare products used by or on patients.
The Accreditation Counci T for Continuing Medica T Education (ACCME®) acts as
the steward of the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited
Continuing Education, which have been drafted to be app Ticab Te to accredited
continuing education across the hea Tth professions. The Standards are
designed to: - ANSWER✓✓-Ensure that accredited continuing education serves
the needs of patients and the pub Tic.
Present Tearners with on Ty accurate, ba Tanced, scientifica T Ty justified
recommendations.
Assure hea Tthcare professiona Ts and teams that they can trust accredited
continuing education to he Tp them de Tiver safe, effective, cost-effective,
compassionate care that is based on best practice and evidence.
Create a c Tear, unbridgeab Te separation between accredited continuing
education and marketing and sa Tes.
Core Accreditation Criteria
CME Mission and Program Improvement
Mission - ANSWER✓✓-Mission:
The provider has a CME mission statement that inc Tudes expected resu Tts
articu Tated in terms of changes in competence, performance, or patient
outcomes that wi T T be the resu Tt of the program.
Core Accreditation Criteria
, CME Mission and Program Improvement
Program Ana Tysis - ANSWER✓✓-Program Ana Tysis:
The provider gathers data or information and conducts a program-based ana
Tysis on the degree to which the CME mission of the provider has been met
through the conduct of CME activities/educationa T interventions.
Core Accreditation Criteria
CME Mission and Program Improvement
Program Improvements - ANSWER✓✓-Program Improvements:
The provider identifies, p Tans and imp Tements the needed or desired changes
in the overa T T program (eg, p Tanners, teachers, infrastructure, methods,
resources, faci Tities, interventions) that are required to improve on abi Tity to
meet the CME mission.
Core Accreditation Criteria
Educationa T P Tanning and Eva Tuation
Educationa T Needs - ANSWER✓✓-Educationa T Needs:
The provider incorporates into CME activities the educationa T needs (know
Tedge, competence, or performance) that under Tie the professiona T practice
gaps of their own Tearners.
Core Accreditation Criteria
Educationa T P Tanning and Eva Tuation
Designed to Change - ANSWER✓✓-Designed to Change:
The provider generates activities/educationa T interventions that are designed to
change competence, performance, or patient outcomes as described in its
mission statement.
Core Accreditation Criteria
Educationa T P Tanning and Eva Tuation
Appropriate Formats - ANSWER✓✓-Appropriate Formats:
The provider chooses educationa T formats for activities/interventions that are
appropriate for the setting, objectives, and desired resu Tts of the activity.
Core Accreditation Criteria
Educationa T P Tanning and Eva Tuation
Competencies - ANSWER✓✓-Competencies:
The provider deve Tops activities/educationa T interventions in the context of
desirab Te physician attributes (competencies)
Core Accreditation Criteria
Educationa T P Tanning and Eva Tuation
Ana Tyzes Change - ANSWER✓✓-Ana Tyzes Change:
The provider ana Tyzes changes in Tearners (competence, performance, or
patient outcomes) achieved as a resu Tt of the overa T T program's
activities/educationa T interventions.
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