Joint Providership

The American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP) is accredited by both the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to offer continuing medical education (CME) activities. To provide joint providership with your institution, the ACOEP must ensure all ACCME/AOA Category 1A Standards are met.

ACOEP CME Mission Statement

ACOEP will offer its members and fellow healthcare professionals continuing medical education programs with an emphasis on medical updates, techniques, innovations, and general educational topics appropriate to the field of emergency medicine. The ACOEP CME Program utilizes evidence-based medicine and
provides educational opportunities to increase the emergency medicine healthcare professional’s competence and performance through developing or enhancing medical knowledge and expertise, as well as becoming proficient in new approaches, techniques, and treatment of conditions in the emergency setting.

ACOEP welcomes applications from non-accredited and non-commercial organizations for joint providership. We are uniquely positioned to offer AOA Category 1-A credits and/or AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM to qualified CME activities to meet the needs of all physician learners.

Jointly provided activities must abide by all AOA, ACCME, and ACOEP standards as outlined in the joint providership application process.

ACOEP is here to work with your organization to ensure the accreditation process runs as smoothly as possible. If you have any questions regarding joint providership please email ACOEP

When applying for Joint Providership, all programs must meet the following requirements:

  • Educational content and presenters must not be provided by commercial support.
  • Completed applications should be submitted at least 30-days prior to the activity. ACOEP is here to work with your organization to ensure the accreditation process runs as smoothly as possible.

If you have any questions regarding the joint providership please email ACOEP.

The Following standard must be met for Joint Providership AOA Category 1A or 1B Credit to be reviewed or granted:

At least 50% of the total education credits and hours must be presented by osteopathic physicians who are specialists within their field, OR 50% of the total amount of presenters must be osteopathic physicians.

ACOEP values the hard work of Joint Providership partners and strives to make the application process as clear and concise as possible. The following is an outline of the basic procedure for applying for Joint Providership approval, as well as basic guidelines for approved programs.

Application Procedure

1. Submit a completed Joint Providership application at least 60-days prior to the planned activity.
2. The ACOEP Executive Director will complete a preliminary review of the application. (Please allow up to one week for review.)
3. If the application for pre-approval is approved, ACOEP will provide an accreditation statement and an ACOEP logo that must be included on all marketing materials for the proposed activity. All marketing materials must be approved by the Executive Director or delegated ACOEP staff prior to distribution to prospective attendees.

The following documentation must be submitted to ACOEP and approved 30 days prior to the CME activity: (Pre-Meeting Items)

  1. Acknowledgments in program materials*
  2. All promotional materials including postcards, brochures, fliers
  3. Evaluation form(s)
  4. Faculty Disclosure forms from all planners and presenters
  5. Faculty Biosketch or CV from all planners and presenters
  6. Meeting budget
  7. Program agenda
  8. Sample CME Certificate

*See informing learners

Post Meeting Items

60 Days After the CME Activity

Collection and submission of the following materials must be submitted to the ACOEP 60-days post CME activity in order for the ACOEP to officially grant CME credits:

  1. All on-site materials including the program book, handouts
  2. Documentation showing how the program disclosure process occurred, i.e. disclosure slide for each speaker, summary slide showing all disclosures, written in program agenda
  3. Final financial accounting
  4. Participant evaluation summary report
  5. Verification of physician attendance (attendance rosters, sign-in sheets)
  6. A statement reflecting the distribution of program evaluation documents (e.g., The beginning of the program, random survey etc.)
  7. A copy of the program outcomes questionnaire and total number of outcomes questionnaire documents returned by conference attendees.

Promotional Materials
All promotional materials must be reviewed and approved by ACOEP’s Education
Department prior to printing and distribution to prospective attendees.

*Informing Learners
The accredited provider must inform all learners of the joint providership being provided by the ACOEP. ACOEP must be identified in the title and its logo must be included on all printed materials provided to the learner.

Any questions regarding documentation, or the application procedure should be directed to: ACOEP

Fees
Application Processing Fees:

ACCME accreditation only (CME) $300
AOA accreditation only (DO) $300
ACCME and AOA accreditation $500

Credits per Event Fees:

There is a flat rate of $50 per credit, up to 50 credits.
There is a flat rate of $25 per credit for Enduring Material up to 1-year post-event.
Larger events will be priced separately

All additional information should be emailed to:

Martha O’Hanlon
Executive Director
info@acoep.org

All payments not made on this form should be mailed to (please mark as “payment for joint providership”

American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians
PO Box 1488
Warrenville, IL 60555

All programs must submit an application. Simply download and complete the form below. All completed applications should be emailed to ACOEP.

You must complete a Gap Analysis Worksheet to upload in your application. Please download the Gap Analysis Worksheet here to complete and have ready to upload.