The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) will not take any action to end the commercial support of accredited CME, according to a report from their March board meeting. The report underscores ACCME's belief that its Standards for Commercial Support and associated ACCME policies "support the development of independent continuing medical education that is free from commercial bias and does not result in an inclination by professionals to direct care that is unwarranted or unnecessary."

The report notes that the ACCME will consider creating a new designation for CME that is free of commercial support, as well as an independent, nonprofit granting entity to accept unconditional and unrestricted donations from all U.S. sources to distribute to ACCME-accredited organizations for development of CME.

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