Joint Accreditation Newsletter: Respond to the JA Strategic Plan Survey; Save the Date for the Summer Provider Update Webinar on June 26; Check Out the New JA-PARS Login Page

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SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS IN THE JOINT ACCREDITATION STRATEGIC PLAN SURVEY

Joint Accreditation is developing a strategic plan to guide our work for the next three to five years and wants to hear from you! We created a survey to gather insights into your experiences, challenges, and aspirations to help us better serve our interprofessional community.

Please complete this survey by April 24, 2024. The survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete, and your responses will remain confidential.

If you have questions or require assistance, please contact [email protected]

Thank you for your participation, and thank you to all who have responded already!

SAVE THE DATE FOR THE SUMMER PROVIDER UPDATE WEBINAR ON JUNE 26

Our next Joint Accreditation Provider Update webinar will take place on Wednesday, June 26! This semi-annual provider webinar is a great opportunity to share Joint Accreditation updates, review important information about accreditation expectations, and build our IPCE community of practice. All jointly accredited providers will receive connection information and the webinar agenda via email one week before the meeting. Please note that this event is open to jointly accredited providers only.

Details and registration information will be available soon!

COMING SOON: NEW LOOK FOR JA-PARS LOGIN PAGE

The login page for JA-PARS will have a new look in the next few weeks! PARS serves multiple accrediting bodies, including Joint Accreditation, and the JA-PARS login page is changing to reflect that. Check out the image below for a sneak preview.

IPCE Education & Resources

DOCUMENTATION OF LEARNER CREDIT GUIDELINES

Jointly Accredited providers may provide individual credit designation statements for each profession, or all the professions’ credit offered for a CE activity may be listed on one statement of credit. Learn more about the specific guidelines.

In addition, the Guidance for Profession-Specific Credits has been recently reviewed and updated where applicable. Learn more about profession-specific credits and general credit requirements here.

COMPLIANCE CHECK: NON-CLINICAL EDUCATION

Compliance Check is a series of quick tips to help you meet accreditation requirements.

Understanding the Exceptions to the JA Criterion (JAC 12c) can help ease your administrative burden.

Tip: With non-clinical education, you do not need to identify, mitigate, or disclose financial relationships.

Leadership, communication, and mindfulness training are good examples of non-clinical education. They are non-clinical because there is no opportunity for people in control of content to insert commercial bias toward the products and business lines—for example, medications, medical devices, or pharmaceuticals—of an ineligible company.

Have questions about what constitutes an eligible or an ineligible company?  ACCME’s list of sample eligible and ineligible companies can help clear up any confusion.

Just remember: the Standards were designed to regulate relationships with ineligible companies. When there’s no possibility for someone to insert commercial bias toward the products of an ineligible company, you can skip Standard 3. That means, you do not have to collect disclosures from the planners, reviewers, speakers, faculty, and facilitators controlling the content of your non-clinical education activities. Similarly, there is nothing you need to disclose to learners, either.

QUESTIONS ABOUT JA-PARS?

If you have questions about using JA-PARS, look no further! ACCME is hosting virtual PARS/JA-PARS trainings every other week to discuss common JA-PARS questions and tasks. Check out upcoming sessions and register on ACCME’s Events page!