Joint Accreditation Newsletter: Register For The Joint Accreditation Leadership Summit Sept. 30 – Oct 1

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REGISTER FOR THE JOINT ACCREDITATION LEADERSHIP SUMMIT SEPT. 30 – OCT 1

The 10th annual Joint Accreditation Leadership Summit™ will be held virtually on Monday, September 30, and Tuesday, October 1, 2024. This virtual event is for organizations currently jointly accredited or who have an approved pre-application and are in the process of applying. This annual summit aims to connect jointly accredited providers as leaders of interprofessional continuing education (IPCE) to celebrate achievements and discuss strategies for best practices as we ascend towards collaborative education.

This year’s theme—The Kaleidoscope of Learning: Building Inclusive and Dynamic Teams—will explore strategies to elevate IPCE’s impact. Our conversations will center around building inclusive and effective teams and measuring the success of educational initiatives. We are excited to feature Innovate & Collaborate sessions planned and facilitated by your IPCE colleagues. Registration is currently open until Friday, September 27.

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
LEARN TO THRIVE 2025 CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Do you have an idea for a presentation for ACCME’s Learn to Thrive 2025? The call for proposals for Inspire & Teach! Sessions and CME Effectiveness & Best Practices: Engaging in CME Research Projects is now open. Submissions will be accepted through 11:59 pm CT on Oct. 2, 2024. Proposals for Better Together: Working Groups will be accepted later this Fall.

More information about the submission options, including links to the submission portals, can be found at www.accmemeeting.org. Learn to Thrive 2025 will be held April 23-25, 2025, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago.

COMPLIANCE CHECK: NON-CLINICAL EDUCATION

Providers, planners, and faculty sometimes believe that CE content is irrelevant to a financial relationship if no products are directly mentioned. However, CE content does not have to explicitly mention or promote an ineligible company’s business lines or products, for there is an opportunity for bias.

JA Criterion 12c (JAC 12c) requires all accredited continuing education providers to identify relevant financial relationships. The criteria ask that you review the information about financial relationships to determine which relationships are appropriate. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

The words “related to” are helpful to remember as you identify potential bias. If a speaker’s presentation does not mention an ineligible company’s business lines or products, could it still be “related to” them? Could the content still have a bias?

It definitely could! If a person has the opportunity to sway a learner, intentionally or unintentionally, toward the products of the company they have a relationship with, then that relationship could bias the content. In this case, you’ll need to take action using your usual mitigation tools for speakers.

Accreditation Tips:

• Educational content does not have to directly mention the business lines or products of an ineligible company for there to be an opportunity for bias.
• Planners can also sway the content without mentioning business lines or products in this same manner. You’ll want to handle that similarly by determining if their relationships are relevant and mitigating using planner-appropriate mitigation strategies.
• If you’re unsure if a relationship is related to the specific content of your activity, consult with the activity’s subject matter expert, who was involved in the planning process. They can use their clinical expertise and knowledge of the content to help you. You might also want to seek input from medical professionals within your network who can help you determine.

You can also visit here to find examples of content related to or unrelated to the ineligible company’s business lines.

GET A JUMP ON ANNUAL REPORTING

Did you know that JA-PARS is always open? Joint Accreditation encourages you to log in to JA-PARS and enter your activities when you plan them. We also encourage you to close your activity records in JA-PARS when they end and submit your learner credit data. Regularly closing your activities gives you a head start on completing your annual reporting requirements!

As a reminder, by March 31 of each year, you must complete the Program Summary and Annual Agreement and close all activities that ended the prior year. The sooner you finish entering and closing your 2024 activities, the faster you’ll be able to complete your annual reporting requirements come January.

To get started:

• Enter any outstanding activities in JA-PARS that began in 2024. Enter activities manually or via batch upload.
• Review and close activities that ended in 2024 and are in “Ready to Close” status. You can close activities manually or batch-close a group of selected activities in JA-PARS.
• Enter learner credits for each activity as you close them.
• If you have enduring material activities in “Ready to Close” status, update the total cumulative learner counts as of the activity end date. Update your cumulative learner counts manually or via batch upload. Enduring materials should remain open until the end date, up to three years from the start date.

If an enduring material activity will remain open into 2025, we recommend periodically updating the total learner counts to ensure they are current as of December 31, 2024.

Reminders for Jointly Accredited Providers

CHOOSE TO ADD PROFESSIONS FOR 2025

The 2025 additional health professions credit selection survey will be sent in early October. Once an organization is jointly accredited, the provider can award AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(TM) and ANCC, ACPE, and IPCE credit. For an additional fee, jointly accredited providers may select to offer AAPA credit for physician associates/physician assistants (PAs), COPE credit for optometrists, APA credit for psychologists, ACE credit for social workers, ADA credit for dentists, CPEU CDR credit for dietitians, and BOC credit for athletic trainers. Please reply to the survey within two weeks once received. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact [email protected].

2025 ACCREDITATION FEES

2025 Annual Fee invoices will be emailed in early November. Payment is due by January 31, 2025. Learn more about the 2024-2025 fees here.

Now Available: ABA Q1-2 2024 High Priority Topics Report

The American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) has released a new High Priority Topics Report for Q1-2 2024 to offer insight into planning CE for board-certified anesthesiologists to develop and maintain their knowledge and skill set. Report contents are informed by anesthesiologists’ continuing certification program performance rather than survey responses. Consider leveraging performance data from the ABA’s High Priority Topics Reports as you plan your next CE activity.