Completing a CME Application

Important Reminder: If your application is not complete, it will be deleted and no CME credit will be awarded.

When completing your application:

  1. Familiarize Yourself with the Process

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  2. Stay Away from Commercial Agreements

    Standard 1: Independence

    • Standard 1.1 A CME provider must ensure that the following decisions were made free of the control of a commercial interest. (See www.accme.org for a definition of a "commercial interest" and some exemptions.) (a) Identification of CME needs; (b) Determination of educational objectives; (c) Selection and presentation of content; (d) Selection of all persons and organizations that will be in a position to control the content of the CME; (e) Selection of educational methods; (f) Evaluation of the activity.
    • Standard 1.2 A commercial interest cannot take the role of non-accredited partner in a joint sponsorship relationship.

  3. Add All Speakers At Initial Application

    Why? It will make your process start over because ACCME says it has to be included at the time of abstract submission. 

    "All speakers must sign a disclosure statement regarding the existence of any relevant financial interest and/or other relationship(s) they and/or their spouse/legally recognized domestic partner might have with the manufacturer(s) or provider(s) of any commercial product(s) or service(s) or with commercial and academic laboratories that accept samples for testing or develop any laboratory test or test(s) to be discussed during their presentations*. 

    Platform presenters completed this disclosure during the abstract submission process.

  4. Two-Sentence "Why?" Response

    State what this CME activity was designed to change in terms of competence, performance, or patient outcomes:

    Response is two sentences:

    • Sentence 1: Restate main objective/overview. 
    • Sentence 2: Write "It is designed to improve [include one of the following: competence/performance/patient outcomes] by teaching participants to ____________."

  5. Copy and Paste the Disclosure Statement

    Type your info into the fields highlighted in yellow.

     

  6. Use the Checklist to Ensure RSS Dashboard Documents Inclusion for Every Activity

    • Who are you? (Identify)
    • What else are you involved in? (Disclose and Mitigate)
    • What are you talking about? (Content)

  7. Use Bloom's Taxonomy for Writing Excellent Objectives

    Refer to Bloom's Taxonomy resources.