Is it necessary to identify, mitigate, or disclose financial relationships with non-clinical education?
Many providers are surprised to find out that Standard 3 clarifies that with non-clinical education, providers do not need to identify, mitigate, or disclose financial relationships to learners. Dion Richetti, ACCME's Vice President of Accreditation and Recognition, states that "when there's no possibility for someone to insert commercial bias toward the products of an ineligible company, you can skip Standard 3." This means that providers also do not have to collect disclosure information from planners, reviewers, speakers, faculty, and facilitators controlling content.
What constitutes "non-clinical" education?
Some good examples of non-clinical education are leadership, communication, and mindfulness training. They are considered non-clinical because there isn't a chance for anyone in control of content to include any commercial bias regarding products of an ineligible company (like medical devices, medications, etc.).
