CAM Accredited

Initial accreditation process

For first-time or first-time applicants, the accreditation process takes several months. WMR accredits organizations that provide continuing medical education to physicians. WMR also accredits individual educational activities.

The Self-Study Report is an opportunity for you to tell the "story" of your CME program to WMR and provide background and information about how your organization is fulfilling its CME mission. Initial applicants are asked to provide descriptions, attachments, and examples to give the reader an understanding of CME practices related to WMR's accreditation criteria, integrity and independence standards, and applicable policies. Descriptions are explanations. Attachments are specific documents. Examples are demonstrations of the application of the described practices, which may include a narrative and/or attachments. The self-study process enables the initial applicant to:

assess your commitment and role in providing continuing medical education,

analyze its current practices and their success in helping the applicant fulfill its educational mission.

The WMR provides specific instructions on what to include in the self-study report. The time available to complete the self-study report depends on the time of eligibility approval and the next available cohort. Initial applicants may request a different cohort if they need additional time to conduct a thorough self-assessment of their CME program. WMR encourages you to use this time effectively to develop a report that clearly describes and documents your educational enterprise. You must demonstrate compliance with WMR's Core Accreditation Criteria, Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education and applicable policies in order to obtain a provisional accreditation result with a two-year accreditation period. If any of the main criteria for accreditation, standards of integrity and independence in accredited continuing education and policies are inconsistent, the result of accreditation will be non-accreditation.

Please note that WMR is not affiliated with and does not endorse any vendor providing accreditation compliance advice or products to CME vendors. WMR has neither endorsed nor disapproved of the advice or products of such providers.

Conducting self-study requires time and effort from many participants involved in your CME program. Appropriate leadership of self-study efforts and broad involvement of administration, faculty, attendees, and other stakeholders are important to successfully planned and implemented self-study.

Once your self-study report is complete, you will submit it to WMR. WMR staff will review the self-study report for completeness and contact you with any questions. Please note that WMR conducts its proceedings in Bulgarian or English languages ​​and requires all self-study reports to be submitted in Bulgarian or English languages.

The self-study report outline includes the questions that initial applicants will need to complete. All information and materials must be submitted to the program and activity reporting system.

A review of effectiveness in practice

Initial applicants are asked to verify that their CME activities comply with WMR accreditation requirements through the documentation review process. The initial applicant will submit evidence to WMR for documentation review of at least two recently completed educational activities.

 

Actions required for this process:

Select a CME activity completed in the last 12 months to review practice performance

Enter data into the program and activity reporting system for the activities it selects to review practice performance

Present evidence of practice implementation for each of the selected activities using the WMR structured abstract for practice implementation

Activities selected for practice performance review may be conducted in conjunction with an accredited WMR provider or may be offered by initial applicants without CME credit. In all cases, the evidence of practice performance presented by these activities will be an important source of data on which to base the initial findings and accreditation decision.

Following the structured abstract, initial applicants will provide the requested information with narrative explanations and tabular statements and include documents and evidence to confirm that the activity meets the requirements of the WMR. Initial applicants are expected to provide practical evidence of the impact of the activity.