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Note: "AIME approval" is
not a substitute for ACCME accreditation. All Category 1 CME activities must be accredited by the ACCME before they can offer CME credit to physicians. AIME is not an accrediting organization. We have created the following criteria
for organizations who wish to advertise the fact that they are serious about creating unbiased, non-industry funded medical
education.
1. No industry money was used to create the CME content, either directly or indirectly.
2. The organization (“provider”) creating the CME activity does not accept industry money for the creation of
any other CME activities. However, it is acceptable for the company, organization, or institution that accredits the activity
to accept industry support, as long as the company producing the actual content does not accept such funding. (For example,
an academic department may create a CME program without industry funding, but they are accredited by a university that does
accept industry funding. As long as the department is committed to not using industry funding for any CME activity, their
program would meet criteria for AIME approval).
3. If the CME content developer has a parent company,
the parent company also does not accept industry funding of any kind. The clarification in #2 above also applies to the
parent company.
4. While providers cannot accept industry-funding to create CME activities, they can hire
experts who have had financial relationships with industry in other settings. However, AIME encourages providers to preferentially
hire experts who have no industry relationships.
5. All experts
must disclose all potential conflicts of interest. This disclosure should ideally include all of the following: 1. The name
of all commercial companies with which the expert has financial relationships; 2. The name of the medication(s) or device(s)
on behalf of which the expert has received funding; 3. Disclosure of the dollar amount of funding from each company.
6. Authorship should be fully disclosed. For example, if a medical writer creates the first
draft of an activity, that writer will ordinarily be cited as the first author. Ghost authorship is not allowed.
7. Approved providers can be either non-profit or for-profit companies.
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