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CME Credit Information for a One-Time Activity
(UMHS personnel or restricted groups of non-UMHS personnel)

Holding a CME activity for which credit is designated involves four stages:

1. Planning
2. Application for credit designation
3. Additional actions to address potential commercial influence (i.e., disclosure)
4. Reporting on the activity (final documentation)
   Information relevant to each of these steps is presented below with links to download applicable materials.

Fees

• For activities including UMHS personnel and non-UMHS personnel, the fee is $500 for designating credit for the activity plus $20 for each individual who receives credit (credit record maintained).
• For activities including only UMHS personnel, no separate fee is charged. The UM Faculty Group Practice annually funds this cost.

1.  Planning

Educational Planning for A CME Activity: Linking Problems and Results. This one-page document illustrates planning terminology from ACCME that is used when completing the application for CME credit.

Planning CME Presentations that Facilitate the Translation of New Knowledge into Practice. This one-page document illustrates how to plan not only for learning, but also for that knowledge to be implemented.

Courses whose audiences include community physicians can have a preliminary listing on the online CME calendar. For further information, see Add Event to CME Calendar.

2. Application for credit designation

Application for Category 1 CME Credit for a One-Time Activity. This form must be completed and submitted. It contains detailed instructions. The last page of the application has a checklist of additional items that are or may be required. Information that is required to accompany the application includes:

Faculty Planner Disclosure Form. A completed form for each planner must accompany the application.  For planners with relevant commercial relationships, the “Resolution” section at the form’s bottom must be completed.

Drafts of promotional materials (e.g., invitation letters, brochures, flyers). Drafts of promotional materials must be approved before they can be distributed to the potential audience. They must include information about the intended (“target”) audience, purpose and expected results (i.e. objectives), the program schedule, and the specified accreditation and credit designation statements. Examples of promotional materials include:

• Invitation Letter – Example
• Brochure – Example

If the activity is jointly sponsored with a group outside UMHS:

• Supplemental Documentation Form for Joint Sponsorship with Non-Medical School Groups. This form must accompany the application for jointly sponsored activities.
• Budget for Jointly Sponsored Activities – Example. This illustrates the type of financial information to be attached.

3. Additional actions to address potential commercial influence

Disclosures of presenter’s conflicts of interest. The disclosure process involves three steps, each of which is to be documented for the CME file:

• Disclosure of existence of relevant relationships with commercial companies (using Presenter Disclosure Form).
• Review and resolution of any disclosed conflict of interest (bottom of Presenter Disclosure Form).
• Disclose the relationships of both the planners (from #2 above) and presenters to the audience before the substantive educational presentations take place.

Presenter Disclosure Form. The Faculty Planner submits a copy of the completed forms for the CME file. For presenter’s with relevant commercial relationships, the “Resolution” section at the bottom must be completed.

Printed Disclosure Summary – Example. A printed summary of disclosures for planners and presenters is provided to the audience. This example illustrates one format that may be used. For the CME file the Faculty Planner submits a copy of the disclosure summary and documentation that it was provided.

Commercial support. If an activity receives financial or in-kind support from a commercial company, two steps are involved, each of which is to be documented in the CME file:

• A written agreement must document that the support is not affecting the educational content.
• The receipt of support must be acknowledged to the audience before the substantive educational program begins.

Written Agreement for Commercial Support – Example. This or a similar form is to be completed for each instance of commercial support. The Faculty Planner submits a copy of the agreement for the CME file.

Printed Acknowledgement of Commercial Support – Example. Support may be acknowledged in various formats, including this example. For the CME file the Faculty Planner submits a copy of the acknowledgement and documentation that it was provided.

After CME credit is designated, a full listing on the CME calendar can be made for courses whose audience includes community physicians. For further information, see Add Event to CME Calendar.

4.  Reporting on the activity (final documentation)

Report on a CME Activity (One-Time Activity). This report on following the requirements for credit designation must be submitted to the CME Credit Coordinator within six weeks of the end of the activity.

 

Address questions and submit applications and other materials to:

Julie Wilson, CME Credit Coordinator
Office of Continuous Professional Development
1200 Towsley Center
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, SPC 5201
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5201
Phone: 734-647-8784
Fax: 734-936-1641
Email: juliwils@umich.edu