INSTRUCTIONS FOR DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH COMMERCIAL INTERESTS IN CONTINUING EDUCATION (CME/CE)
- RELATIVE TO THIS ACTIVITY, instructors, planners, content reviewers and managers who affect the content of a CME/CE activity are required to disclose financial relationships they have with commercial interests (i.e., any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients).
- Disclose financial relationships ONLY with a commercial interest that is relevant to the activity.
- You are to disclose financial relationships that fit #2 above in any amount that has been received over the past 12 months ONLY.
- Financial relationships with governmental agencies (e.g., the NIH) and organizations that do not fit the above definition do not have to be disclosed.
- Honoraria received, or consulting funds, from a CE provider, even though those funds may have been provided to that CME/CE provider through an educational grant from a commercial interest, do not have to be disclosed.
- If you are a principal investigator for a drug study, you must report that research relationship below under "Contracted Research" even if those funds came to an institution.
- If your spouse or life partner has a relevant financial relationship with an applicable commercial interest (e.g., is employed as the VP-Marketing), or provides marketing advice to an applicable commercial interest as a consultant, you must include that disclosure in the table below.
- In accordance with ACCME, ANCC and ACPE requirements, failure to provide disclosure information in a timely manner will result in the disqualification of the potential planner, course director, moderator, faculty, presenter, author or reviewer from this activity.
