To be Completed by All Individuals in Control of Educational Content
Any individual who is in a position ot affect the content of a CME activity are required to disclose all financial relationships they have with an ACCME defined ineligible company*
*The ACCME definition of a ineligible company is: “any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distriuting health care products used by or on patients. The ACCME does no consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be ineligible companies.
Examples of Types of Ineligble Companies are:
- Advertising, marketing, or communication firms whose clients are ineligible companies
- Bio-medical startups that have begun a governmental regulatory approval process
- Compounding pharmacies that manufacture proprietary compounds
- Device manufacturers or distributers
- Diagnostic labs that sell proprietary products
- Growers, distributers, manufacturers, or sellers of medical foods and dietary supplements
- Manufacturers of health-related wearable products
- Pharmaceutical companies or distributors
- Pharmacy benefit mangers
- Reagent manufacurers or sellers
You are to disclose all financial relationships that you have with a commercial interest that have occurred in the past 24 months, which fall under the definition above.*
There is no minumum financial threshold. We ask that you disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies. All financial relationships should be disclosed regardless of the potential relevance of each relationship to the education.
Per MDS onwers or employees of an ACCME defined ineligible company are not permitted to participate in the planning, delivering, or influencing of content of accredited education.
In accordance with ACCME Requirements, failure to provide disclosure information in a timely manner will result in your disqualification from participating in this activity.
With respect to financial relationships with ineligible company, when a person divests themselves of a relationship it is immediately not relevant to conflicts of interest but it must be disclosed to the learners for 24 months.