You are required to complete the following fields regarding commercial support at the individual activity level.
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You are required to complete the following fields regarding commercial support at the individual activity level.
Learning from teaching is a descriptive label for a type of activity. (The identification of activity types allows the reporting of data and information on the range of educational formats offered...
An internet live course is an online course available at a certain time on a certain date and is only available in real-time, just as if it were a course held in...
Report any in-kind (non-monetary) commercial support received for an activity by indicating the nature of the in-kind support. You should not estimate the dollar value of in...
An important concept in PARS is that of “open” and “closed” activities. Open activities are those that have a minimum set of data entered for them: specifically, activity name, activity type, activity date, and, if applicable,...
A directly provided activity is one that is planned, implemented and evaluated by the accredited provider. Include co-provided activities (provided by two accredited providers) in this category if you are the...
A course is identified as a regularly scheduled series (RSS) when it is planned to have
The following fields are required to establish, or “open” an activity in PARS:
Hours of instruction and AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ designated may be the same or may be different. Please refer to the ...
Performance improvement activities are based on a learner’s participation in a project established and/or guided by a provider in which a learner...
When you report Manuscript Review in PARS, report each journal for which the manuscript is being reviewed as an activity regardless of how many manuscripts there are and regardless of how many persons have reviewed...
The Program Summary is a summary of financial data attributable to your entire Program for the year. It includes the following data fields that the provider is required to manually complete:
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Manuscript review is based on a learner’s participation in the pre-publication review process of a manuscript.
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Activities that are offered over the course of multiple reporting years - such as Enduring Materials - should be reported in PARS for each year in which they are active, regardless of whether they are active for the entire year or...
When reporting Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS) in PARS, each series should be reported as one activity. In addition, the...
Hours of instruction equals the total hours of educational instruction provided. For example, if a one-day course lasts eight (8) hours (not including breaks or meals), then total hours of instruction reported for that...
Internet searching and learning activities are based on a learner identifying a problem in practice and then accessing content in search of an answer from sources...
When you report Performance Improvement in PARS, count each learning project as one Performance Improvement activity, regardless of whether or not it is created for an individual learner, or group of...
If your organization is the accredited provider for a jointly provided activity, you are required to report the same financial data that you do for directly provided activities, even if the joint...
Annually, the activity data that is reported by providers is aggregated and published as an Annual Report that provides information to the community. The “Reporting Year” indicates in which Annual Report the activity belongs. ...
Test item writing is an activity based on a learner’s participation in the pre-publication development and review of any type of...
If you provide the same activity in multiple locations (e.g., update course) or provide the same activity year after year (e.g., annual meeting), you can save time entering data about these activities by using the copy...
There are three (3) components of your organization’s year-end reporting:
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An enduring material is a printed, recorded, or computer-presented activity that may be used over time at various locations and which, in itself, constitutes a...
When you report Internet Searching and Learning in PARS, aggregate and report all your data for Internet Searching and Learning for all learners into one activity. For hours of instruction, specify the amount of...