The New Standards: Confusion and Clarification

ON SEPTEMBER 28, 2004, the updated Accreditation Council for CME Standards for Commercial Support were finally approved. The new Standards were the main topic at the recent AMA Conference on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration in Baltimore. Three issues surfaced during the conference, which were reinforced in the published Background Rationale provided by the ACCME, that all parties to the CME Enterprise need to think about.