AAHPM is committed to providing continuing medical education (CME) that supports and advances the practice of physicians in hospice and palliative medicine. We strive to offer a range of opportunities to earn CME, including live events; online, on-demand products; and virtual live events such as webinars.
AAHPM offers members discounted high-quality educational programs to support lifelong learning with a variety of CME options for the completion of AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits with a selection of resources to help you earn HPM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points and CME credits through the same educational program.
CME Mission Statement
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) strives to contribute to our members’ success and professional growth as educators, researchers, clinicians, and administrators through the provision of valid and independent educational content that supports improvements to strategies, skills, performance and coordination as healthcare teams.
Educational content is designed to change competence and/or practice and prepare the workforce for changes in care delivery, develop a new cadre of physician and interprofessional leaders for hospice and palliative care, achieve advocacy priorities that advance and sustain the field, and support the professional development and wellbeing of a diverse and inclusive workforce across settings of care needed to meet increasing demand. AAHPM promotes professional development that supports the organization’s vision, mission and values.
Reviewed and updated, Education and Learning Strategic Coordinating Committee, May 2024
Dynamic Online Education
The Academy’s online learning platform, AAHPM Learn, offers the ability to track your credits from AAHPM and external organizations. Head to Learn, login with your AAHPM credentials, and visit My Account. Select the My Activities tab and select External Credits to start tracking your credits.
Accredited Medical Education
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. In the context of desirable physician attributes (competencies), AAHPM designs activities and educational interventions that are intended to change competence, performance, or patient outcomes by incorporating the educational needs underlying the identified professional practice gaps of hospice and palliative care learners and plans our activities to address the professional practice gaps and the needs that are the cause of those gaps.
AAHPM endorses the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education are designed to ensure that accredited continuing education serves the needs of patients and the public, is based on valid content, and is free from industry influence. Companies that are ineligible to be accredited in the ACCME System (ineligible companies) are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Prior to assuming a role in the accredited continuing education offering, AAHPM is responsible for identifying and mitigating relevant financial relationships between individuals in control of educational content and ineligible companies to ensure they do not introduce commercial bias into our accredited continuing education content. By identifying and mitigating relevant financial relationships, we work to create a protected space to learn, teach, and engage in scientific discourse free from influence from organizations that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias into education.
In order to participate as a person who was in a position to control the accredited educational content, planners, faculty, reviewers and others are required to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies that they had over the past 24-months regardless of whether the individual viewed the financial relationship(s) as relevant to the accredited educational content.
For more information on the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, please visit https://www.accme.org/standards-resources.