Graham McMahon, MD, MMSc, President and CEO of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), recently published an article in Academic Medicine, “The Leadership Case for Investing in Continuing Professional Development.” In his article, Dr. McMahon calls upon healthcare leaders to recognize and appreciate the power and capacity of accredited CME to address many […]
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Recent evaluations of professional societies and accredited continuing medical education (CME) providers have “further questioned the legitimacy of industry physicians and biomedical scientists providing scientific information or participating in educational program planning.” These evaluations have “deemed that such participation is in violation of ACCME guidelines,” according to a recent article in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics […]