VERIFIED ANSWERS (UPDATED TO PASS)
Standard #1
Ensure Content is Valid Correct answer-Ensure Content is Valid
Accredited providers are responsible for ensuring that their education is fair and balanced and that
any clinical content presented supports safe, effective patient care.
Standard #2
Prevent Commercial Bias and Marketing in Accredited Continuing Education Correct answer-
Prevent Commercial Bias and Marketing in Accredited Continuing Education
Accredited continuing education must protect learners from commercial bias and marketing.
Standard #3
Identify, Mitigate, and Disclose Relevant Financial Relationships Correct answer-Identify, Mitigate,
and Disclose Relevant Financial Relationships
Many healthcare professionals have financial relationships with ineligible companies. These
relationships must not be allowed to influence accredited continuing education.
Standard #4
Manage Commercial Support Appropriately Correct answer-Manage Commercial Support
Appropriately
Accredited providers that choose to accept commercial support (defined as financial or in-kind
support from ineligible companies) are responsible for ensuring that the education remains
independent of the ineligible company and that the support does not result in commercial bias or
commercial influence in the education.
Standard #5
Manage Ancillary Activities Offered in Conjunction with Accredited Continuing Education Correct
answer-Manage Ancillary Activities Offered in Conjunction with Accredited Continuing Education
Applies only when there is marketing by ineligible companies or nonaccredited education associated
with the accredited continuing education.
Accredited providers are responsible for ensuring that education is separate from marketing by
ineligible companies—including advertising, sales, exhibits, and promotion—and from nonaccredited
education offered in conjunction with accredited continuing education.
Types of Organizations That May Be Accredited in the ACCME System Correct answer-Those whose
mission and function are: (1) providing clinical services directly to patients; or (2) the education of
healthcare professionals; or (3) serving as fiduciary to patients, the public, or population health; and
other organizations that are not otherwise ineligible.
Companies that are ineligible to be accredited in the ACCME System Correct answer-Those whose
primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used
by or on patients.
,The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) acts as the steward of the
Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, which have been
drafted to be applicable to accredited continuing education across the health professions. The
Standards are designed to: Correct answer-Ensure that accredited continuing education serves the
needs of patients and the public.
Present learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations.
Assure healthcare professionals and teams that they can trust accredited continuing education to
help them deliver safe, effective, cost-effective, compassionate care that is based on best practice
and evidence.
Create a clear, unbridgeable separation between accredited continuing education and marketing and
sales.
Core Accreditation Criteria
CME Mission and Program Improvement
Mission Correct answer-Mission:
The provider has a CME mission statement that includes expected results articulated in terms of
changes in competence, performance, or patient outcomes that will be the result of the program.
Core Accreditation Criteria
CME Mission and Program Improvement
Program Analysis Correct answer-Program Analysis:
The provider gathers data or information and conducts a program-based analysis on the degree to
which the CME mission of the provider has been met through the conduct of CME
activities/educational interventions.
Core Accreditation Criteria
CME Mission and Program Improvement
Program Improvements Correct answer-Program Improvements:
The provider identifies, plans and implements the needed or desired changes in the overall program
(eg, planners, teachers, infrastructure, methods, resources, facilities, interventions) that are required
to improve on ability to meet the CME mission.
Core Accreditation Criteria
Educational Planning and Evaluation
Educational Needs Correct answer-Educational Needs:
The provider incorporates into CME activities the educational needs (knowledge, competence, or
performance) that underlie the professional practice gaps of their own learners.
Core Accreditation Criteria
Educational Planning and Evaluation
Designed to Change Correct answer-Designed to Change:
The provider generates activities/educational interventions that are designed to change competence,
performance, or patient outcomes as described in its mission statement.
Core Accreditation Criteria
Educational Planning and Evaluation
Appropriate Formats Correct answer-Appropriate Formats:
, The provider chooses educational formats for activities/interventions that are appropriate for the
setting, objectives, and desired results of the activity.
Core Accreditation Criteria
Educational Planning and Evaluation
Competencies Correct answer-Competencies:
The provider develops activities/educational interventions in the context of desirable physician
attributes (competencies)
Core Accreditation Criteria
Educational Planning and Evaluation
Analyzes Change Correct answer-Analyzes Change:
The provider analyzes changes in learners (competence, performance, or patient outcomes) achieved
as a result of the overall program's activities/educational interventions.
Commendation Accreditation Criteria
Promotes Team-based Education
Engages Teams Correct answer-Engages teams:
Members of interprofessional teams are engaged in the planning and delivery of interprofessional
continuing education (IPCE).
Commendation Accreditation Criteria
Promotes Team-based Education
Engages Patients/Public Correct answer-Engages Patients/Public:
Patient/public representatives are engaged in the planning and delivery of CME.
Commendation Accreditation Criteria
Promotes Team-based Education
Engages Students Correct answer-Engages Students:
Students of the health professions are engaged in the planning and delivery of CME.
Commendation Accreditation Criteria
Addresses Public Health Priorities
Advances Data Use Correct answer-Advances Data Use:
The provider advances the use of health and practice data for healthcare improvement.
Commendation Accreditation Criteria
Addresses Public Health Priorities
Addresses Population Health Correct answer-Addresses Population Health:
The provider addresses factors beyond clinical care that affect the health of populations.
Commendation Accreditation Criteria
Addresses Public Health Priorities
Collaborates Effectively Correct answer-Collaborates Effectively:
The provider collaborates with other organizations to more effectively address population health
issues.
Commendation Accreditation Criteria
Enhances Skills
Optimizes Communication Skills Correct answer-Optimizes Communication Skills:
The provider designs CME to optimize communication skills of learners.