Nonphysicians are called “other learners.” This category includes activity participants other than MDs and DOs. Beginning with the 2015 reporting year, residents are no longer included in this category and are instead counted as...
Using the Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS)
Last Revised:
June 25, 2014
Published on:
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Last Revised:
November 3, 2016
Published on:
Monday, January 30, 2012
You are required to complete the following fields regarding commercial support at the individual CME activity level.
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Last Revised:
November 3, 2016
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Learning from teaching is a descriptive label for a type of CME activity. (The identification of activity types by the ACCME serves to allow the ACCME to report data and information on the range of...
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November 3, 2016
Published on:
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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...
Last Revised:
March 22, 2016
Published on:
Friday, November 11, 2011
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...
Last Revised:
November 7, 2016
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Friday, November 11, 2011
The tab-delimited batch upload enables providers to export multiple activity records at one time into PARS. The tab-delimited batch upload process originates with the use of an MS Excel template which closely mirrors the CME...
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June 26, 2014
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Physician participants are activity participants who are MDs or DOs. Through the 2014 reporting year, residents are not included in this category, but are included under nonphysician participants. Effective with the 2015 reporting...
Last Revised:
November 3, 2016
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Friday, November 11, 2011
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,...
Last Revised:
November 3, 2016
Published on:
Friday, November 11, 2011
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...
Last Revised:
November 3, 2016
Published on:
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
A course is identified as a regularly scheduled series (RSS) when it is planned to have
- a series with multiple sessions that
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Last Revised:
November 3, 2016
An internet enduring material activity is available when the physician participant chooses to complete it...
Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
Annually, ACCME aggregates the activity data that is reported by providers and publishes an Annual Report that provides information to the CME community about the size and scope of the CME enterprise. The “Reporting Year” tells...
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November 11, 2011
Providers have two options for entering their activity data in batches:
For more information about...
Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
Yes. The ACCME has put together several tools for you to use related to uploading your activity data in batches using the Tab-Delimited Batch Upload feature in PARS. If you have not already...
Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
When you report Journal-Based CME in PARS, report each article as one activity. For hours of instruction, specify the amount of time required to complete the activity. The number of participants should equal the total number of...
Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
There is only one level of access in PARS. All users associated with your organizational records will have the ability to add, edit and delete information.
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Performance improvement activities are based on a learner’s participation in a project established and/or guided by a provider in which a...
Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
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...
Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
By default, the Activities page of PARS displays “open” activities that occur during the current Reporting Year. If you enter all required activity information, but no longer see the...
Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
Providers may determine when and with how much frequency to enter their activity data. ACCME encourages providers to begin inputting data as soon as possible. You can enter basic...
Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
When you report Learning from Teaching CME in PARS, aggregate your data for Learning from Teaching CME for all learners into one activity. For hours of instruction, specify the amount of time you believe a learner would take to...
Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
When reporting Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS) in PARS, each series should be reported as one activity. In addition, the...
Last Revised:
February 12, 2014
Yes, the accredited provider must report the full amount of commercial support received, even if the commercial support is distributed to other non-accredited joint providers.
Last Revised:
November 3, 2016
Manuscript review CME is based on a learner’s participation in the pre-publication review process of a manuscript.
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Last Revised:
November 11, 2011
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...