To comply with Commendation Criterion 34, does the continuous professional development for our CME team have to be directly related to CME? What about planning/managing trainings?
Not necessarily. If your CME team includes individuals who are meeting planning staff, then it would be compliant to include education/training for them about how to be more effective meeting planners. This would effectively contribute towards the expectation of continuous professional development for Criterion 34.
To comply with Criterion 33, does our own CME team have to develop and analyze the research, or can a different group in our organization take the lead here?
There is no requirement by the ACCME that the CME team specifically takes the lead on management of any research projects. However, the research itself must be related to the effectiveness of and/or best practices in CME.
