Accreditation Tips: Year in Review
Greetings and Happy New Year!
As we look to the new year, I want to take a moment to reflect on all that we’ve learned together in 2024. I’ve listed below what I consider to be the top accreditation tips of the past year, based on the interest you’ve shown in each of our Compliance Check emails.
Keep these accreditation tips in mind as you head into the new year:
- You do not need to identify, mitigate, or disclose financial relationships for non-clinical education.
- Make sure that you are collecting the right information for disclosures by using the sample disclosure form provided by ACCME.
- Conversations at planned activities are not spontaneous case conversations. Case conferences, regularly scheduled series, department rounds, and tumor boards were planned ahead and, thus, do not qualify as exceptions to Standard 3.
- CME content does not have to explicitly promote the business lines or products of an ineligible company for there to be an opportunity for bias.
- In order to analyze learner change, you should ask your learners to provide examples of changes they made or plan to make.
Use and share these tips with your colleagues, and thank you for all you do to ensure accredited continuing education remains trusted and accurate.
Visit ACCME at the Alliance. If you’re attending the Alliance 2025 Annual Conference next week, I encourage you to join me at one of my sessions next Wednesday or Friday. Or catch up with ACCME in the Exhibit Hall, Booth 319. We look forward to seeing you there!
