Certifying Your Educational Activity for CME Credit

Continuing Medical Education must be: 

1. Designed Specifically for your Physicians - Your CME activity content must address shortcomings in the current professional practice of your target audience (TN physicians).
2. Educational - The content and presentation must promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.
3. Evidence-Based - All recommendations involving clinical medicine must be based on evidence that is accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients.  All scientific research referred to, reported or used in support or justification of a patient care recommendation must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis.
4. Free from Promotion -The content and presentation must promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.
5. Identify and Manage Relevant Financial Relationships with Ineligible Companies – Many healthcare professionals have financial relationships with ineligible companies.  These relationships must not be allowed to influence accredited continuing education.  As part of the process of certifying your activity, we must ensure that relevant financial relationships between individuals in control of educational content and ineligible companies have been identified and managed to ensure that they do not introduce commercial bias into the education.  Financial relationships of any dollar amount are defined as relevant if the educational content is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

Not sure if your content is CME or not?  Call the Office of CME to discuss at 901.448.5128.