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Continuing
Medical Education Program
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RIMS
Accreditation
The Rhode Island Medical Society is recognized by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education as a CME accreditor for organizations and/or institutions that sponsor intra-state continuing medical education within Rhode Island. Recognizing that continuing medical education is an important process towards the improvement of quality patient care, the society is committed to ensuring that organizations seeking accreditation demonstrate the capability to plan, present and evaluate quality CME for physicians.
Members
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Definition
of Continuing Medical Education
CME
consists of educational activities that serve to maintain,
develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional
performance and relationships a physician uses to provide
services for patients, the public, or the profession. CME
represents that body of knowledge and skills generally recognized
and accepted by the profession as within the basic medical
sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision
of health care to the public.
AMA
Physician's Recognition Award, Requirements of Accredited
Providers, V 3.2
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Accreditation
Resources
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Links
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• Essential
Areas and their Elements
• Standards
for Commercial Support
• Application
for Accreditation
 • Accreditation
Requirements
• FAQs
• Regularly
Scheduled Series Guidelines
• Annual Report Form
• Annaul Report FAQs
• Annual Report Definitions
• AMA Guide to CME Credit System
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Accreditation
Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
www.accme.org
AMA
CME Department
ama-assn.org/go/cme
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Accredited Institutions
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Institutions
accredited by RIMS
Butler Hospital
Coastal Care Medical Management, LLC
Kent Hospital
Landmark Medical Center
Memorial Hospital
Newport Hospital
Rhode Island Hospital
Roger Williams Medical Center
The Miriam Hospital
Westerly Hospital
Women & Infants Hospital
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RI
institutions accredited by the ACCME
Brown-Warren
Alpert Medical School
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Ethical
considerations for providers of CME
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The
AMA expects CME providers to present physicians with commercially
unbiased and objective information in all of their activities.
Accredited providers must also meet all ACCME disclosure
requirements and standards for commercial support. Industry
should fund CME activities only through educational grants.
The AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) defines
industry as "all proprietary health-related entities
that might create a conflict of interest." Industry-supported
activities, like all CME activities, must serve primarily
to educate physicians. Promotional materials should feature
a program's educational content, with advertising for unrelated
amenities playing a secondary role. Both physician and non-physician
CME faculty should ensure the scientific accuracy of their
presentations, and avoid influence by either industry or
financial contributions. They must communicate any potential
conflict of interest to providers and physician participants.
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RI Recertification
Law
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TITLE
5
Businesses and Professions
CHAPTER 5-37
Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline
SECTION 5-37-2.1
§
5-37-2.1 Recertification – Continuing medical education.
– Every physician licensed to practice allopathic or
osteopathic medicine in Rhode Island under the provision
of the Act and the regulations herein, shall on or
before the first day of June of every even-numbered year
after 2004, on a biennial basis, earn a minimum of forty
(40) hours of AMA Category 1 /AOA Category 1a continuing
medical education credits and shall document this to the
board of medical licensure and discipline. The board
may extend for only one six (6) month period these educational
requirements if the board is satisfied that the applicant
has suffered hardship which prevented meeting the educational
requirement. No recertification to practice medicine in
this state is refused, nor any certificate suspended or
revoked except: (1) as provided for in this chapter and,
(2) for failure to provide satisfactory evidence of continuing
medical education as provided for in this section.
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Rules
and Regulations for the Licensure and Discipline of Physicians
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Section
6.0 Continuing Education
6.1
Every physician licensed to practice allopathic or osteopathic
medicine in Rhode Island under the provision of the Act
and the regulations herein, shall on or before the
first day of June of every even-numbered year after 2004,
on a biennial basis, earn a minimum of forty (40) hours
of AMA Category 1 /AOA Category 1a continuing medical
education credits and shall document this to the board
of medical licensure and discipline.
6.2
The application shall include evidence satisfactory to
the Board of completion a prescribed program of continuing
medical education established by the appropriate medical
or osteopathic society, and approved by the board.
6.2.1
Said continuing medical education shall include a
minimum of two (2) hours related to current information
on any one or more of the following topics: universal
precautions, infection control, modes of transmission,
bioterrorism, OSHA, ethics, end-of-life education,
palliative care, pain management, and other regulatory
requirements.
6.3
The Board, may extend for only one (1)six(6)month period
such educational requirements pursuant to the provisions
of section 5-37-2.1 of the General Laws.
6.4
It shall be the sole responsibility of the individual
physician to obtain documentation from the approved sponsoring
or co-sponsoring organizations, agencies or other, of
his or her participation in a learning experience and
the number of dated credits earned.
6.41.
Those documents must be safeguarded, for a period
of three (3) years, by the physician for review by
the Board if required. Only a summary list of those
documents, not the documents themselves, shall be
submitted with the application for renewal of the
certification.
6.5
Licensure renewal shall be denied to any applicant who
fails to provide satisfactory evidence of continuing medical
education as required herein.
A
complete copy of the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline,
Chapter 5-37, is available at the RI General Assembly
website. rilin.state.ri.us
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