{"title":"Competing interests in continuing medical education – what should accreditors do?","authors":"R. Griebenow","doi":"10.1002/CCE2.15","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The issue of competing interests is pertinent to all areas of medicine – ranging from research to CME [1]. Transparency is considered to be a key prerequisite in order to identify and manage competing interests. Thus, all major accreditors make it mandatory that providers of accredited CME must have a strategy in place for how to declare and manage competing interests of program committee members and all faculties. Communication of interests has traditionally been facing several problems:","PeriodicalId":100331,"journal":{"name":"Continuing Cardiology Education","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Continuing Cardiology Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/CCE2.15","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The issue of competing interests is pertinent to all areas of medicine – ranging from research to CME [1]. Transparency is considered to be a key prerequisite in order to identify and manage competing interests. Thus, all major accreditors make it mandatory that providers of accredited CME must have a strategy in place for how to declare and manage competing interests of program committee members and all faculties. Communication of interests has traditionally been facing several problems: