ACCME Updates Disclosure Policy For Commercial Support

*CME Providers may now use hyperlinks to link to disclosure information *Also, starting May 1: All commercial logos must be removed from educational materials and disclosures in accordance with last year's decision   The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) now allows for accredited CME providers to use tabs and hyperlinks to transmit disclosure information to learners at educational activities. ACCME notes that this revised policy does not affect the actual disclosure requirements under the Standards for Commercial Support, just the method for disclosure. Furthermore, one year after ACCME modified its logo policy, no educational material or disclosures should contain a commercial logo or slogan. Materials may still state the name, mission, and areas of clinical involvement of commercial interests. Updated: 5/5/2015: We previously indicated that starting May 2015, there is "no longer an exception" to the new logo policy for materials that existed at the time of ACCME's April 2014 policy. ACCME has indicated that there was never a specific exception for these materials, only an extended timeframe for accredited providers to come into compliance with the new rules. CME providers were told that they did not need to discard their current materials and reprint them without a logo, but that they were expected to make the changes by May 2015 into all current and future CME materials. ACCME states: "After May 2015,...
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