Whether you are an accredited provider such as i3 Health or you are an educational partner working with an accredited provider, it's still important to understand the criteria that underly continuing medical education (CME) activities. This is part of a periodic series of posts looking at what each criterion means in general and what it might mean for you. The criterion I'm going to focus on in today's post follows the criterion that used to be called C1 and is now known simply as "Mission." If ...

Whether you are an accredited provider such as i3 Health or you are an educational partner working with an accredited provider, it's still important to understand the criteria that underly CME activities.This is part of a periodic series of posts looking at what each criterion means in general and what it might mean for you. In October, I started a periodic series on the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME's) accreditation criteria. You can read posts about Criterion ...

Back in July, I wrote a post on Speaking the Same Language as a guide to help you understand some of the lingo that is specific to the field of healthcare continuing professional development (CPD). As of last week, that guide is now out of date. Last week, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) released their new Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education to replace the old Standards for Commercial Support, and with these new standards...

Whether you are an accredited provider such as i3 Health or you are an educational partner working with an accredited provider, it's still important to understand the criteria that underly CME activities. This is part of a periodic series of posts looking at what each criterion means in general and what it might mean for you. In the last post in this series, we started at the beginning with Criterion 1, so it's logical to now move on to Criterion 2 (C2), and that is exactly what we'll do. C2 sta...

Whether you are an accredited provider such as i3 Health or you are an educational partner working with an accredited provider, it's still important to understand the criteria that underly CME activities. Today starts a new periodic series of posts looking at what each criterion means in general and what it might mean for you. To quote a certain musical, let's start at the very beginning with Criterion 1 (C1): The provider has a CME mission statement that includes expected results articulated in...