Accreditation & Reaccreditation Consulting
Helping You Navigate Changes
Change continues to reshape the CME accreditation and re-accreditation arena, requiring a combination of compliance expertise, proven quality, and excellence with implementation of effective policies and procedures.
AOE provides the accreditation expertise you need. Informed from interviews with ACCME surveyors and hands-on experience with multiple ACCME, ANCC, and ACPE self study reports developed from 2002 to 2009, AOE consultants understand the accreditation process inside out.
As you navigate accreditation or re-accreditation changes, AOE will partner with you and your team to assess current policies and procedures, map strategic areas for improvement to effectively meet ACCME’s Essential Areas and Elements, and implement identified changes.
Accreditation and Re-Accreditation Support
- ACCME Updated Accreditation Criteria training and analysis
- Organizational compliance/quality assurance accreditation audit
- Policy and procedure review, development, and/or editing
- ACCME, ACPE, and ANCC self study design, development, and/or editing
- File audit
- Mock survey
Reaccreditation Timeline: July 2011 Cohort
July 2011 Cohort Timeline
Date
Milestone
April 2010
ACCME mails official Reaccreditation notification to provider with links to documents and forms used in the process and for online Confirmation of Intent to Apply for Reaccreditation.
June 1, 2010
Provider deadline for submission of:
a) Confirmation of intent to apply for reaccreditation
b) Reaccreditation Fee Payment
June 2, 2010
ACCME emails NEXT STEP prompt about the provider’s submission of the CME Activity List
June 23, 2010
Provider deadline for submission of CME Activity List
July 1, 2010
ACCME emails NEXT STEP prompt about the accreditation interview scheduling process and submission of interview date preferences.
July 1-31, 2010
Provider date range for online submission of accreditation interview preferences
August 13, 2010
ACCME informs provider of activities selected for performance-in-practice (activity files) by the ACCME
December 8, 2010
Provider deadline for receipt of completed self study reports and evidence of performance-in-practice (activity files) by the ACCME
November -December, 2010
ACCME confirms accreditation interviews with providers
February-March, 2011
Accreditation Interviews Occur
Mid June 2011
ARC Meeting
Mid July 2011
ACCME Board Meeting – Provider receives accreditation decision from the ACCME after the Board concludes its meeting
Reaccreditation Timeline: November 2011 Cohort
November 2011 Cohort Timeline
Date
Milestone
July 2010
ACCME mails official Reaccreditation notification to provider with links to documents and forms used in the process and for online Confirmation of Intent to Apply for Reaccreditation.
September 10, 2010
Provider deadline for submission of:
a) Confirmation of intent to apply for reaccreditation
b) Reaccreditation Fee Payment
September 10, 2010
ACCME emails NEXT STEP prompt about the provider’s submission of the CME Activity Data
October 15, 2010
Provider deadline for submission of the CME Activity Data
December 15, 2010
ACCME informs provider of activities selected for performance-in-practice review.
February 2011
ACCME emails NEXT STEP prompt with information about the accreditation interview scheduling process
April 1, 2011
Provider deadline for receipt of completed self study reports and evidence of performance-in-practice (activity files) by the ACCME
June-July, 2011
Accreditation Interviews Occur
October 12-13, 2011
Accreditation Review Committee (ARC) Meeting
December 1-2, 2011
ACCME Board of Directors Meeting – Provider receives accreditation decision from the ACCME after the Board concludes its meeting
