Accreditation Rules
Our accreditation rules ensure that accredited CME is designed to be relevant, practice-based, effective, based on valid content, and independent of commercial influence.
Rules Framework
Our rules reflect the values of our educator community, build on adult education research, and respond to the evolving healthcare environment.
With this framework, we empower CME providers to deliver high-quality education that drives improvements in practice and helps clinicians and teams to optimize the care, health, and wellness of patients.
Our rules reflect the values of our educator community, build on adult education research, and respond to the evolving healthcare environment. With this framework, we empower CME providers to deliver high-quality education that drives improvements in practice and helps clinicians and teams to optimize the care, health, and wellness of patients.
The Accreditation Criteria offer a framework for planning, implementing, and evaluating CME activities that are designed to result in improvements in clinicians’ abilities, performance in practice, or patient outcomes. Accredited CME providers need to comply with the Core Accreditation Criteria.
The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education are designed to ensure that accredited continuing education serves the needs of patients and the public, is based on valid content, and is free from commercial influence.
Accredited CME providers need to adhere to the policies that are relevant to their organizations, as well as complying with the Accreditation Criteria and the Standards for Integrity and Independence.
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Download the Accreditation Requirements
For your convenience, we have created a compilation of the accreditation requirements in one document, available here. This PDF includes the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education and the ACCME Policies. A PDF of only the Standards for Integrity and Independence is also available.
