Benchmarking Insights 2017 Report Released

Recently, the Industry Alliance for Continuing Education (IACE) Benchmarking Working Group of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEHP) issued its annual report, Benchmarking Insights 2017. This annual report is developed by surveying the medical education professionals of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries to gain insights into standards and trends that are applied in commercial support of Independent Medical Education (IME). Since 2009, the survey and subsequent report have been used as a way to learn and educate others about commercial supporters’ best practices related to the support of IME, advocacy efforts, and ongoing evaluations of supported educational programs. The surveys for the annual reports have typically focused on benchmark practices and processes that are related to the industry funding of education grants, intended primarily for dissemination within supporter organizations to help facilitate benchmarking. In addition to standard benchmarking on budget, grants volumes and monitoring, this year, the survey also assessed role of industry in distributing invitations, what has improved, what remains as areas for improvement, and supporting repeat series activities. This year, sixty organizations with US IME offices were identified and a survey with sixty questions on key IME areas of interest was developed, pilot tested, and sent to one key individual per organization from April to May 2017. Twenty...
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