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EXPLORE THE 2023 ACCME DATA REPORT
We are pleased to release the ACCME Data Report: Thriving Through Growth and Innovation – 2023, which includes data from our community of 1,602 diverse accredited education providers. ACCME remains committed to supporting the accredited provider community in our shared journey while maintaining quality control that is the source of trust for learners and stakeholders.
“The data in this report clearly shows that the continuing education system is supporting the evolution, change, improvement, and excellence that all of us are looking for,” said ACCME President and CEO Graham McMahon, MD, MMSc.
EXPLORE OUR NEW WEBSITE!
Our newly designed website, ACCME.org, launched in July. The site boasts a clean, modern design with colors that meet the latest accessibility standards. The main navigation includes new sections about the process of accreditation and resources related to data reporting and educational development. Additional resources, housed in the new Document Library under News and Publications, are also tagged to appear on pages with related content. We encourage you to explore the site and let us know what you think.
For brief guided tours of the site, check out these short videos:
Website Tour – General Introduction (1 min 56 sec)
Website Tour – Search Using Document Library and Search Pages (2 min 58 sec)
ANNOUNCING A DAY OF RECOGNITION
ACCME is among six other organizations who are uniting to launch a new day of recognition for our esteemed healthcare continuing education professionals. Healthcare Continuing Education Professionals Day is an opportunity to recognize and show our appreciation for our exceptional CE professionals.
Each year, we’ll celebrate on Friday during the third full week of January, beginning Friday, January 24, 2025.
We encourage you and your organization to plan activities and watch this page for ideas and resources. Mark your calendar and join us in celebrating our community of CE planners, speakers, reviewers, faculty, facilitators, and much more.
In addition to ACCME, collaborating organizations include the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP), American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Association for Hospital Medical Education (AHME), Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education, and Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME). Read the full announcement here.
Education
SAVE THE DATE FOR LEARN TO THRIVE PLUS: OCT. 29!
Join us Tuesday, October 29, 2024, for our next iteration of Learn to Thrive PLUS, ACCME’s virtual gathering space for the accredited CE community! Discover how ACCME can support accredited providers by offering strategic resources and guidance, while empowering you to create your own solutions based on insights from our working groups. More information, along with official registration, will be shared in the coming weeks.
Watch the Events listing on our website for more information.
LEARN TO THRIVE 2025 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Have an idea for a presentation for Learn to Thrive 2025? The call for proposals for Inspire & Teach! Sessions and CME Effectiveness & Best Practices: Engaging in CME Research Projects is now open. Submissions will be accepted through 11:59 pm CT on Oct. 2, 2024. Proposals for Better Together: Working Groups will be accepted later this Fall.
More information about the submission options, including links to the submission portals, can be found at www.accmemeeting.org. Learn to Thrive 2025 runs April 23-25, 2025, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago.
200+ ATTEND ACCREDITATION WORKSHOP
The ACCME Accreditation Workshop concluded this week. More than 200 CE professionals were on hand to expand their knowledge about ACCME’s requirements and expectations for accreditation.
Thank you to our awesome volunteer faculty, staff, and participants from the CE community! Save the dates for our next ACCME Accreditation Workshop – August 26-27, 2025, at the Loews Chicago Hotel!
TELLING YOUR STORY: TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE VIDEO-BASED CE WEBINAR SERIES
Thank you to everyone who registered for our new webinar series, Telling Your Story: Tips for Effective Video-based CE. Due to an overwhelming response from the CE community, registration for both the September 9 and September 27 webinars have reached capacity and are now closed.
Recordings of each of these webinars will be made available on the ACCME Academy later this Fall. We will share an announcement when the recordings are ready to be accessed.
For more information about these webinars, visit the Event listings on our website at the links below:
Webinar One – Getting to the Launchpad: Pre-production Tools, Tips, and Tricks
Webinar Two – Blastoff! Insights to Production, Post-production, and Delivery Strategies
Data Tips
CONTENT TAGGING FOR REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS IN PARS — FIRST STEPS
As part of the feedback on making PARS and data entry more streamlined, accredited providers have asked us to identify simple ways for learners to find accredited continuing medical education that meets their regulatory requirements. That education is often required for relicensure, credentialling, or other regulatory permissions such as the recently announced Medication Access and Training Expansion (MATE) Act.
Since accredited CME is reported through PARS and then made available to physicians through CME Passport, it makes sense to find technical solutions to better identify and promote such valuable education. We are implementing a stepwise approach that will ultimately allow content to be tagged and searched by utilizing activity titles and content descriptions. Until that process can be fully automated, utilizing solutions like AI, we have enabled an optional new feature that allows accredited providers to tag activities for physicians with pain management-related state medical board licensing requirements. In the future, our goal is to support tagging against the broad range of content-specific state licensing requirements. Once the content is tagged, the education will be more easily searchable and identifiable by physicians licensed in different states.
Currently, you can access this optional feature via the web form in PARS. We will announce the availability of these features via Excel batch upload and web services in the coming weeks and will offer small-group webinars soon to guide you through the process. Please explore these new features to see if they are relevant to your accredited education.
As always, we welcome your feedback. Contact us at info@accme.org.
REMINDER: ABS CONTINUOUS CERTIFICATION ASSESSMENT REGISTRATION APPROACHING
As the registration period for the 2024 American Board of Surgery (ABS) Continuous Certification Assessment (CCA) approaches, accredited providers may receive a higher volume of requests from learners for CME credits to be reported into ACCME’s Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS). Registration began Aug. 1, 2024. The 2024 CCA window runs from Aug. 26 – Nov. 4, 2024. ACCME offers a variety of resources to help you report learner credits for ABS. Still have questions? We’re happy to help! Contact us at info@accme.org.
