Certifying Your Educational Activity for CME Credit

Continuing Medical Education must be: 

1. Designed Specifically for your Physicians - Your CME activity content must address shortcomings in the current professional practice of your target audience (TN physicians).
2. Educational - The content and presentation must promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.
3. Evidence-Based - All recommendations involving clinical medicine must be based on evidence that is accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients.  All scientific research referred to, reported or used in support or justification of a patient care recommendation must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis.
4. Free from Promotion - The content and presentation must promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.
5. Unbiased by Commercial Interests - The following aspects of your CME activity must be free from control of a commercial interest: (a) identification of needs, (b) determination of educational objectives, (c) selection and presentation of content, (d) selection of all persons and organizations that will be in a position to control the content of the CME, (e) selection of the educational methods, and (f) evaluation of the activity.

Not sure if your content is CME or not?  Call the Office of CME to discuss at 901.448.5128.