What can we help you find?
Annual Reporting in JA-PARS
Annual Reporting Information and Resources Joint Accreditation uses the information collected in JA-PARS to support reviews that are part of the...
Collaborative Practice
When multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds provide comprehensive services by working with patients, their families, carers and communities...
Program
The overall continuing education (CE) activities of an accredited provider.
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP) “Healthcare team”
When multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families, carers [sic], and communities to deliver the...
Interprofessional Education (IPE)
When students from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve...
What does the term “New Applicants” mean?
An organization seeking accreditation as a provider of IPCE that does NOT currently hold at least one accreditation from at...
What does “Currently Accredited” mean?
An organization that is already accredited in good standing by at least one of the national accrediting bodies (ACCME, ACPE...
What does “Reaccreditation” mean for jointly accredited providers?
An organization that is already a jointly accredited provider may be awarded at term of up to four years if...
What does ” Joint Accreditation with Commendation” mean?
Providers that successfully achieve Joint Accreditation with Commendation may be awarded a six-year accreditation term. The six-year term will be...
What does “Probation” mean for jointly accredited providers?
Probation is given to jointly acredited providers that have serious problems meeting the Joint Accreditation requirements. Providers on Probation are...
Joint Accreditation Review Committee (Joint ARC)
Committee comprised equally of representatives from ACCME, ACPE, and ANCC that participate in the process of accreditation review for organizations...
Relevant Financial Relationships
As defined in the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, specifically, Standard 3: Identify, Mitigate, and Disclose...
Ineligible Company
Companies that are ineligible to receive Joint Accreditation (ineligible companies) are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling,...
Program Evaluation
Evaluation process in which the provider gathers data or information and conducts a program-based analysis on the degree to which...
Commercial Support
Financial or in-kind support from an ineligible company that is used to pay all or part of the costs of...
Target Audience
Group of individuals for which an educational activity has been designed (e.g. nurses, pharmacists, physicians).
Surveyors
Group of trained volunteers selected by the accrediting bodies (ACCME, ACPE, and ANCC) to conduct the provider’s self-study interview and...
Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)
Interprofessional continuing education (IPCE) is when members from two or more professions learn with, from, and about each other to...
Progress Report
Jointly accredited providers that receive noncompliance findings in one or more of the Joint Accreditation Criteria must submit a progress...
Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education
Requirements designed to ensure that accredited continuing education serves the needs of patients and the public, is based on valid...
Provider
See "Jointly Accredited Provider"
Commercial Interest
See ineligible company.
ACCME Recognized Accreditors
State and territory medical societies recognized by the ACCME as accreditors of intrastate providers. To achieve recognition, a state or...
Objectives
Statements that describe what the learner can expect to know or do after the completion of the CE activity. Objectives...
Jointly Accredited Provider
The institution or organization that is jointly accredited by the ACCME, ACPE, and ANCC to present continuing education activities.
ANCC Accredited Approvers
An eligible organization credentialed by ANCC after having submitted to an in-depth analysis to determine its capacity to assess and...
Activity
An education event, which is based upon the educational needs that underlie the practice gaps of the healthcare team and/or...
Financial Relationships
Accredited providers must collect information from all planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content about all their financial...
Joint Accreditation
A voluntary process in which an institution, organization or agency submits to an in-depth analysis to determine its capacity to...
Mission
A statement that highlights education for the healthcare team with expected results articulated in terms of changes in skills/strategy, or...
What is a regularly scheduled series (RSS)?
What is a live course?
What is an enduring material activity?
What is a journal CE/CME activity?
What is a manuscript review activity?
What is a test-writing item activity?