Joint Providership
ACPE accredited providers may collaborate on content development with ACPE and/or non-ACPE accredited providers. When they enter into this relationship it is called Joint Providership. ACPE expects all CPE activities to be in compliance with the Accreditation Standards for Continuing Pharmacy Education and the ACPE Policies and Procedures. It is the accredited provider’s responsibility to demonstrate to ACPE compliance through written documentation. The UTHSC College of Pharmacy has accredited programming for health system, interprofessional group, society, community, individual, and residency programs.
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Joint Providership ApplicationUTHSC Office of Continuing Professional Development is committed to ensuring that accredited continuing education is fair and unbiased. We have adopted ACPE’s guidance on the types of organizations we can and cannot partner with. If you have questions about partnering to provide continuing education, please contact our Office at pharmcpd@uthsc.edu
ACPE defines eligible organizations as: those whose mission and function are: (1) providing clinical services directly to patients; or (2) the education of healthcare professionals; or (3) serving as fiduciary to patients, the public, or population health; and other organizations that are not otherwise ineligible.
ACPE defines ineligible organizations as: those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Please see table below for examples.
Eligible | Ineligible |
Ambulatory procedure centers | Advertising, marketing, or communication firms whose clients are ineligible companies |
Blood banks | Bio-medical startups that have begun a governmental regulatory approval process |
Diagnostic labs that do not sell proprietary products | Compounding pharmacies that manufacture proprietary compounds |
Electronic health record companies | Device manufacturers or distributors |
Government or military agencies | Diagnostic labs that sell proprietary products |
Group medical practices | Growers, distributors, manufacturers or sellers of medical foods and dietary supplements |
Health law firms | Manufacturers of health-related wearable products |
Health profession membership organizations | Pharmaceutical companies or distributors |
Hospitals or healthcare delivery systems | Pharmacy benefit managers |
Infusion centers | Reagent manufacturers or sellers |
Insurance or managed care companies | |
Nursing homes | |
Pharmacies that do not manufacture proprietary compounds | |
Publishing or education companies | |
Rehabilitation centers | |
Schools of medicine or health science universities | |
Software or game developers |