Begin Your Educational Journey

As an accredited continuing medical education (CME) provider, you have a special opportunity to be a catalyst for change in your healthcare-focused organization. Use this website as a resource to inform and enhance your application of the ACCME Criteria as your algorithm for practice-based learning and improvement. You can do CME that Matters to Patient Care... and we can help!
 

Take a Tour

Click here for learn more about the features of the ACCME Education and Training website tab.
 

**NEW** Strategic Planning Tool

Where does your "CME mission" and your larger organization's mission meet?  How do you best position your CME program to provide value and strategic benefit to your organization? This NEW strategic planning tool – Positioning Your CME Program for Organizational Impact – will help you and your colleagues reflect on the current environment within your organization, map accomplishments, opportunities, and challenges, then develop a plan for moving your CME Program forward.
 

Register for a Workshop

Registration for the April 2012 Workshop is now available!  Click here for more information.

Whether you are a novice or veteran CME professional, ACCME’s intensive workshops are a great training opportunity for you and your stakeholders. Work closely with ACCME staff and national CME leaders to gain practical “how to” insights to achieving compliance and positioning your CME program as a Bridge to Quality.
 

Get Help with PARS

The ACCME Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) is open for use by ACCME-accredited CME providers. We've developed video tutorials and compiled frequently-asked-questions to help get you up and running with the system.

New to PARS?! 

► Begin learning about the system by watching our "What is PARS" video - a brief overview from Kate Regnier, ACCME's Deputy Chief Executive.   

► The explore our PARS Help page for more tutorials and information.

Avoiding Noncompliance Pitfalls

After reviewing more than 300 accredited providers in 2008-2010, the ACCME has compiled a great deal of information to inform your success at reaccreditation. Fifty percent (50%) of providers reviewed by the ACCME were required to submit Progress Reports because they were found in Noncompliance with one or more of the accreditation requirements. However, many of these Noncompliance issues are easily preventable. To help you avoid these pitfalls, we've collected several video FAQs that address the most common reasons for Noncompliance. Click here to learn more.
 

Perspectives: CME Leaders Speak Out

Are you wrestling with implementing ‘meaningful use’ of health information technology at your organization?  Listen as Sachin Jain, MD, MBA, Senior Advisor to the Administrator at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, discusses the important role accredited CME can play to help physicians integrate health information technology into their practices. 

Do you need help integrating education with Quality Improvement and/or Medical Staff Services?  Watch Mike Horst, PhD, Director of Research and CME for Lancaster General Hospital – a state-accredited community hospital in Lancaster, PA – as he shares his successes and challenges in this area.  In this video, Mike also explores a physician leadership development course that his CME Department has developed and implemented.

Click here to view all of our “Perspectives” video interviews. 
 

Video FAQ

We're ready to answer your frequently-asked questions. Click here or on the "ACCME Video FAQ" category link at right to get the straight talk on common issues that CME providers inquire about. Have a question of your own? Submit your FAQ question to postmaster@accme.org, and we'll try to answer it!