Save Certified Continuing Medical Education (CME).

This petition was published by Anonymous on Jul 07, 2008

We the undersigned:

Wish to retain the current state of commercial funding for certified Continuing Medical Education programming by accredited Medical Education Companies.

Believe that commercial support of CME enables Providers of certified CME to create education that better supports practicing clinicians and their patients.

Believe that industry support of CME is valid and necessary to improve physician competence, performance and patient outcomes. Collaborations with industry are a fundamental part of modern medicine and these interactions are neither inherently nor universally bad.

Believe that eliminating commercial support of CME will eliminate half of certified CME and be detrimental to the provision of healthcare to patients.

Urge the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to release compliance data by Provider type, in order to demonstrate the level of compliance held across all Provider types including academic medical centers, teaching hospitals, medical societies and medical education companies.

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