Spine and Nerve Surgery in the Era of Excellence:
Will You Measure Up?
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Guidelines & Procedures
Presentation Pre-submission Instructions
CNS Conflict of Interest Disclosure Policy
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Essential Areas
and their Elements, including Standards for Commercial Support (SCS) (3/24/08)
- The Congress of Neurological Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education
for physicians. These are the guidelines set forth by the ACCME that we adhere to.
ACCME Content Validation Statement
The CNS requires that the content of CME activities provide balance, independence,
objectivity, and scientific rigor. Planning must be free of the influence or control
of a commercial entity, and promote improvements or quality in healthcare. In addition,
the content or format of a CME activity and its related materials must promote improvements
or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary commercial interest.
All CNS CME activities must be compliant with the ACCME content validation statements (July
2002):
- All the recommendations involving clinical medicine in a CME activity must be based
on evidence that is accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification
for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients.
- All scientific research referred to, reported or used in CME in support or justification
of a patient care recommendation must conform to the generally accepted standards
of experimental design, data collection and analysis.
- Providers are not eligible for ACCME accreditation or reaccreditation if they present
activities that promote recommendations, treatment or manners of practicing medicine
that are not within the definition of CME, or known to have risks or dangers that
outweigh the benefits or known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients.
Presentations must give a balanced view of therapeutic options. Use of generic names
will contribute to this impartiality. If the CME educational material or content
includes trade names, trade names from several companies should be used and not
just trade names from a single company. Educational materials that are part of a
CME activity such as slides, abstracts, and handouts cannot contain any advertising,
trade names without generic names (but listing of trade names from several companies
is permissible), or product-group advertising.
Any individual refusing to comply with this policy and/or not disclosing relevant
financial relationships on a timely basis will not participate in, have control
of, or responsibility for, the development, management, presentation, or evaluation
of CNS CME activities.
Sample disclosure slide - Per ACCME, all
presentations are required to begin with the presenting individual’s disclosure/s.
Displaying this information on the first presentation slide is one way that the
DSPN Faculty abide by this standard.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
AANS/CNS Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves
c/o Congress of Neurological Surgeons
E-mail: info@1cns.org
Phone: 847 240 2500 | Toll Free: 877 517 1CNS