CME Guidelines

CRF is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. As a result, CRF must ensure that CME activities are developed free from the control of ineligible companies and are balanced, objective, and scientifically rigorous. As such, disclosure forms, learning objectives, audience response questions, presentation reviews, or other measures are requested in advance of the meeting to satisfy our accreditation requirements.

Early upload (72 hours prior) for many presentations is necessary to screen for technical issues that may create problems during presentations and to allow for CME Review. Failure to comply with the 72-hour deadline will jeopardize the session’s CME accreditation.

CME Questions?

You MUST have disclosure information in the second slide of your presentation. Download the required template and select the relevant slide: Nothing to disclose OR you have disclosures.

Important: The presentation system does not create and insert a disclosure slide. You must add this information. Furthermore, ACCME now requires 24 months of disclosure information.

PRESENTATION TEMPLATE

Bad Slide	Good Slide
PROBLEM: Branded product logos are visible.	SOLUTION: Replace product logos with plain text (generic fonts).
BAD CME EXAMPLE: Promotion for Single Commercial Product and use of Stock Video or Pictures.	GOOD CME EXAMPLE: Cannot be identified with any company or product. Academic center branded slides are acceptable.

The primary purpose of a citation is to enable a peer to look up that reference.

Journal Articles.
- First Author, Journal, Year, Volume, Page numbers.
Electronic Journals or In-Press.
- First Author, Journal, Year, Doi.
Live Meeting Presentation or Poster.
- Presenter, Title of presentation, Meeting, Year.
- If downloaded from a website, then Presenter, Meeting, Year, URL.

Bad Slide	Good Slide
PROBLEM: Reference Information is Inadequate. Pub Med search found 50 papers, 21 of which were cardiac related.	SOLUTION: Multiple References and Readable, Adequate Detail to Find Papers.
BAD: This Slide lists 8 Presenters and, Thus, Requires Complete Disclosure Information for ALL 8 Individuals.	GOOD: Only the speaker/presenter is listed on the Title Slide. Others are acknowledged (next slide).

Bad Slide

Good Slide

PROBLEM:
Using a patient’s photo violates HIPPA privacy laws unless express permission has been given. We don’t know whether your patient has approved.

SOLUTION:
1. Hide patient identity.
2. Send patient HIPAA release to CRF ([email protected]).
3. Add patient HIPAA release at end of presentation to show the patient has approved.

PROBLEM:
HIPAA Violation Displaying Patient Identifying Information.

SOLUTION:
Patient identifiers are covered. Consider covering identifiers when age, sex, and institution are visible.

All presentations must meet the following requirements:

Be based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning, while giving a fair and balanced view of diagnostic and therapeutic options.
Use generic names instead of trade names. If trade names are used, the presentation should include trade names from multiple companies to create a balanced view, when appropriate.
Conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
Be free of marketing or sales of products or service.
Slides should not be promotional. They cannot contain industry backgrounds, advertisements, product promotion, corporate logo(s), trade name(s), device name(s) or product-group message of an ineligible company (any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients).

If showing an image of a product or device, the trade name and logo must be covered over.
If referring to a product or device name do not include ™ or ®.

Clearly describe the level of evidence on which the presentation is based and provide enough information about data (study dates, design, etc.) to enable learners to assess research validity.
Ensure that, if there is a range of evidence, the credible sources cited present a balanced view of the evidence.
Address any potential risks or adverse effects that could be caused with any clinical recommendations.

CME Guidelines

CME Questions?

CME Slide Samples

Citations & References

HIPAA Slide Samples

Presentation Requirements