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883_20201210_Standards for Integrity and Independence Toolkit

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The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) has introduced a toolkit to help accredited providers transition to new Standards for Integrity and Independence in continuing education. The toolkit focuses on Standard 1, ensuring content validity, and Standard 3, which involves identifying, mitigating, and disclosing relevant financial relationships. These resources are optional, designed to complement existing practices to ensure compliance with ACCME standards.<br /><br />The toolkit includes several tools: <br />1. **Key Steps**: A process overview to identify and handle relevant financial relationships.<br />2. **Sample Letter**: Language templates for explaining the necessity of collecting financial relationship information.<br />3. **Template and Worksheet**: Tools for collecting and reviewing financial relationship data.<br />4. **Examples and Guidance**: Sample disclosure communications and guidance to ensure clinical content validity.<br />5. **Quick Tool**: A simplified planning tool for when financial relationship disclosure is not required.<br /><br />**Key Processes:**<br />- **Collection of Financial Information**: Before planning educational activities, staff, planners, and faculty must disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies from the past 24 months.<br />- **Exclusions and Exceptions**: Exclude owners and employees of ineligible companies from educational roles unless exceptions apply, such as when the content isn’t related to their company or involves basic science research.<br />- **Disclosure and Mitigation**: Activities must disclose relevant financial relationships to learners and mitigate them to avoid commercial bias.<br />- **Content Validity**: Clinical content must be based on current science and presented objectively, avoiding advocacy of unscientific methods.<br /><br />The toolkit also provides guidance for conducting peer review to maintain content validity and includes templates and communication strategies to support compliance. ACCME emphasizes creating a learning environment free from commercial influence by identifying and mitigating relevant financial relationships. Providers are encouraged to align their processes with these resources to meet the new standards. For additional support, ACCME is available for guidance through their contact email.

Keywords

ACCME

continuing education

toolkit

Standards for Integrity and Independence

financial relationships

content validity

disclosure

compliance

peer review

commercial influence

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