Mission/Resources

The mission of the Center for Continuous Professional Development (CCPD) Program at the University of Cincinnati shall be to improve the quality of patient health by developing and implementing strategies to identify and narrow gaps between current and optimal clinical performance and patient outcomes. Additionally, as an integral part of an Academic Health Center, the Continuous Professional Development Program will support the institutional mission of training health care professionals to enhance and improve quality of life by discovering, teaching, and applying knowledge in the health sciences.

UC-CCPD is dedicated to providing continuing education for physicians and other health professionals. Our efforts are intended to help improve the quality of patient health by implementing strategies to identify and narrow the gaps between current and optimal clinical performance and patient outcomes. UC-CCPD supports the mission of the larger UC Academic Health Center by training health care professionals to enhance and improve the quality of life for people everywhere as they discover, teach, and apply knowledge in the health sciences.

The University of Cincinnati has been reviewed by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) and awarded with commendation for six years as a provider of continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. Accreditation in the ACCME System seeks to assure the medical community and the public that the University of Cincinnati delivers education that is relevant to clinicians’ needs, evidence-based, evaluated for its effectiveness, and independent of commercial influence.

The University of Cincinnati is an approved Portfolio Program Sponsor through the American Board of Medical Specialties. As an approved sponsor, we can assist you in developing, submitting, and managing a quality/safety improvement activity for Maintenance of Certification Part IV.

DISCLOSURE POLICY

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education and the University of Cincinnati policy, all faculty, planning committee members, and other individuals, who are in a position to control content, are required to disclose all relationships with ineligible companies* (commercial interests) within the last 24-months. All educational materials are reviewed for fair balance, scientific objectivity, and levels of evidence. The ACCME requires us to disqualify individuals who refuse to provide this information from involvement in the planning and implementation of accredited continuing education, or whose conflicts of interests cannot be mitigated.

*Companies that are ineligible to be accredited in the ACCME System (ineligible companies) are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

RESOURCES

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)

ACCME Accreditation Certificate (2018-2024).pdf

ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence 2021.pdf

ACCME Conflict of Interest Flowchart.pdf

ACCME-AMA Glossary of Terms and Definitions.pdf

12 Tips for Engaging Patients.pdf

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
CME for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program Guide

ACCME MOC Crosswalk (2020).pdf

ACCME CME for MOC Program Guide (2020).pdf

American Medical Association (AMA)

Physician's Recognition Award and Credit System Booklet (2017).pdf