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Joint Accreditation Newsletter: Leadership Summit Report Captures Key Lessons on Effective Teambuilding

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Leadership Summit Report Captures Key Lessons on Effective Teambuilding

2024 report
Explore our new report, The Kaleidoscope of Learning: Building Inclusive and Dynamic Teams, capturing highlights from the 2024 Joint Accreditation Leadership Summit, conducted from September 30 to October 1. More than 200 interprofessional continuing education (IPCE) professionals representing over 80 jointly accredited providers attended the online event to celebrate achievements and discuss strategies for best practices as we ascend towards collaborative education.

This year’s theme explored strategies to elevate IPCE’s impact, with conversations centered around building inclusive and effective teams and measuring the success of educational initiatives.
Download and share this report with your colleagues, leadership, and stakeholders. Previous reports can be found on our website here.

 

SPREAD THE WORD: #IPCEDelivers 

IPCE Delivers

#IPCEDelivers is a new resource for IPCE providers. Visit jointaccreditation.org/IPCEdelivers to learn how you can demonstrate the value of interprofessional continuing education to your organization’s key decision-makers. We’ve created the hashtag #IPCEDelivers, a one-pager and a series of campaign graphics you can use to get the conversation started.

 

CELEBRATING OUR CE PROFESSIONALS

 

CE Prof Day

 

It’s not too early to plan for the first annual Healthcare Continuing Education Professionals Day beginning Friday, January 24, 2025. Here’s how you can leverage the messaging of the #IPCEDelivers campaign to generate awareness and appreciation of the individuals and organizations dedicated to the education of our healthcare workforce:

  • Follow Joint Accreditation on LinkedIn or Facebook
  • On or before Jan. 24, share or post a message celebrating healthcare continuing education professionals.
  • Use a graphic from the #IPCEDelivers campaign and add an example from your own organization.
  • Include the hashtags #IPCEDelivers and #CEProfessionalsDay
  • Include a link to https://jointaccreditation.org/ipcedelivers

Watch this page for more suggestions on how to honor your team.

 

JOIN US FOR THE WINTER PROVIDER UPDATE WEBINAR DECEMBER 4, 2024

Winter Update
Join us for Joint Accreditation’s Winter Provider Update Webinar on Wednesday, December 4, from 1:00-2:30 pm CST. During this semi-annual webinar, we will share Joint Accreditation updates, review important information about accreditation expectations, and continue to build our interprofessional continuing education (IPCE) community of practice. All jointly accredited providers will receive registration information via email and will be provided with a unique link to join the live session on December 4 upon registering.

 

REMINDERS FOR ACCREDITED PROVIDERS

MOC LEARNER-COMPLETION DEADLINES

You can report CME and Maintenance of Certification/Continuous Certification (MOC/CC) data for your physician learners in JA-PARS. That information will be made available to all U.S. licensing boards and collaborating certifying boards (full list below).

As we near the end of 2024, please note that all certifying boards have year-end reporting requirements for their physicians. To best support your physician learners, please enter their CME for MOC completion data for 2024 in JA-PARS by the deadlines listed below, and remember, JA-PARS is always open!  We encourage you to report learner data into JA-PARS on an ongoing basis as physicians complete activities, preferably within 30 days of the learner completing the activity and evaluation.

  • Learner completion data should be submitted to JA-PARS by December 1, 2024, for the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP).
  • Learner completion data should be submitted to JA-PARS by December 31, 2024, for the following certifying boards:
    • American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)
    • American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
    • American Board of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (ABOHNS)
    • American Board of Pathology (ABPath)
    • American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS)
    • American Board of Surgery (ABS)
    • American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS)

For questions about submitting learner data in JA-PARS, check out this tutorial. Explore additional technical details on submitting learner data in JA-PARS using batch upload processes or web services here.

Questions? Email us at [email protected]. We are happy to help!

 

2025 ANNUAL ACCREDITATION FEES

Payment of the 2025 Annual Accreditation Fee and additional health professions credit is due January 31, 2025. Invoices and payment instructions were sent via email in late October and early November. Electronic payments are strongly encouraged. Please include your invoice number with your payment. Learn more about the fees here. Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions. If you have already paid your fee, thank you!

 

JOINT ACCREDITATION AT THE ALLIANCE MEETING

Join us at the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions’ Annual 2025 Conference at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center January 8-11 in Orlando, Florida!  Sessions of interest include the following:

  • Securing Joint Accreditation and Advancing Interprofessional Education – Insights from Diverse Stakeholders
  • Help?! I’m Jointly Accredited. NOW WHAT?
  • Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Experience with Joint Accreditation

Click Alliance Annual 2025 Conference for more information, and be sure to visit our booth in the exhibitor hall!

 

AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION CERP ADOPTS STANDARDS FOR INTEGRITY AND INDEPENDENCE IN ACCREDITED CONTINUING EDUCATION

The Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition, the agency that oversees the American Dental Association’s Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP), has adopted the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, effective June 1, 2026. The Standards are designed to ensure that accredited continuing education provides healthcare professionals with accurate, balanced, evidence-based information that supports safe and effective patient care.

Released in December 2020, the Standards reflect the values of the continuing education community. In adopting the standards, the ADA Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition joins other accrediting bodies representing multiple health professions. Independence from industry is the cornerstone of accredited continuing education. By achieving consensus on the Standards, these accrediting bodies in the health professions stand together, not only to continue to assure the delivery of high-quality learning experiences, but also to sustain the protection from industry bias and marketing that accreditation rules deliver:

  • Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
  • Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
  • American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
  • American Academy of PAs (AAPA)
  • American Dental Association Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP)
  • American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
  • American Osteopathic Association (AOA)
  • Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry’s Council on Optometric Practitioner Education (ARBO/COPE)
  • Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™

“The goal of the Commission is to maintain the highest standards for continuing education,” said Dr. Kecia Leary, ADA CCEPR chair. “This ensures the public and our patients that dentists and allied oral health providers that receive continuing education from CERP-recognized providers receive this education from organizations that strive for quality in their educational endeavors.”


ADA CERP is a Collaborating Accreditor of Joint Accreditation.