HPM PASS, 3rd Edition

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

AAHPM is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

AAHPM designates each enduring material for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. CME credits expire on July 8, 2019.

Maintenance of Certification (MOC)

“Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 10 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.”

ABIM MOC points expire on July 8, 2019.

To earn CME credits or MOC points, a passing score of 70% is required.

Through the American Board of Medical Specialties ("ABMS") MOC initiative to create a widw array of Maintenance of Certification ("MOC") Activities through the ABMS MOC Directory, HPM PASS, 3rd edition has met the MOC requirements as a MOC Part II Self-Assessment and MOC Part II CME Activity (apply toward general CME requirement) by the following ABMS Member Boards:

MOC Part II Self-Assessment
American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

MOC Part II CME Activity
American Board of Family Medicine
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
American Board of Radiology

Note: If a Member Board has not determined this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board's general CME requirement (only). Please refer directly to your Member Board's MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.

Disclosures

AAHPM endorses the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards’ for disclosure and commercial support and endeavors to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor for all accredited products or programs. All who are in a position to control or influence the content of an educational activity must disclose any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests.* Disclosure documents were reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and, if identified, they were resolved prior to confirmation of participation. Only those who had no conflict of interest or who agreed to an identified resolution process prior to their participation were involved in this activity.

All editors, authors, reviewers and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships with the following exceptions: Beth Popp serves on PRA Health’s Safety Monitoring Committee for Clinical Trials and receives an honorarium. Robert Taylor serves on the speaker’s bureau of HospiScript and receives an honorarium.

*A commercial interest is defined as any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. (Exclusions at the time of this writing included 501-C not-for-profit organizations, government organizations, liability and health insurance providers, non-healthcare-related companies, group medical practices, and for-profit healthcare providers, blood banks and diagnostic laboratories.)