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Joint Providership for Continuing Medical Education

Bring accredited CME credit to your educational activity — you provide the expertise, we ensure the standards.

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A partnership that brings CME credit to your activity

Best Imaging Education and Diagnostics (BIEDX) is an ACCME-accredited provider of continuing medical education. Through our Joint Providership Program, we partner with hospitals, specialty societies, academic groups, and educators to certify high-quality educational activities for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ — so your experts can focus on the content while we ensure the education meets national accreditation standards.

What is joint providership?

A formal collaboration between an accredited provider (BIEDX) and an organization that is not itself accredited (you). BIEDX holds and manages the accreditation responsibility for your activity — guiding planning, independence, and disclosure so the education is objective, balanced, and compliant with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence.

How the accreditation reads on your program materials

Accreditation statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Best Imaging Education and Diagnostics (BIEDX) and Your organization. BIEDX is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit designation

BIEDX designates this live activity for the allotted amount of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

What we handle, what you provide

BIEDX provides

  • AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ provided through BIEDX and compliance oversight
  • Guidance on needs assessment and objectives
  • Disclosure collection and conflict-of-interest mitigation
  • Credit designation and the accreditation statement
  • Review of program materials for independence
  • Attendance processing, reporting, and file closeout

You provide

  • Educational content and subject-matter expertise
  • Faculty, speakers, and the planning committee
  • Draft objectives and program materials
  • Completed disclosures from planners and faculty
  • Venue or platform for delivery
  • Timely submission of attendance and final-report items

Why partner with BIEDX

Accredited expertise.
An ACCME-accredited provider with a dedicated CME team.
Specialized focus.
Deep experience in imaging education and diagnostics.
Every format.
Support for live meetings, internet enduring, journal-based CME, regularly scheduled series, and hybrid / blended activities.
Full compliance management.
Needs assessment, disclosure and conflict-of-interest mitigation, credit designation, and reporting — handled with you.
Flexible credit.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, with optional Self-Assessment credit where a certifying-board requirement applies.
A guided process.
A clear, template-driven path from application through final report.

Four simple phases

Every activity moves through four phases. We guide you at each step.

  1. Plan the Activity

    As you begin planning.

    Define the educational need and objectives, choose your format, and assemble your planning committee. We collect planning disclosures and help mitigate any conflicts up front.

  2. Apply

    Submit at least 90 days before the activity.

    Submit your application at least 90 days before the activity. Our CME team reviews it for approval.

  3. Prepare

    After approval, before the activity — some items no later than 15 days prior.

    After approval, we finalize the learner-facing materials, confirm disclosures, and put any commercial-support agreements in place before the activity.

    Activity

  4. Deliver & Report

    Deadlines vary by format.

    Run the activity and capture attendance. We help you submit the final report and the follow-up outcomes survey, then close the CME file.

Key deadlines

The timeline at a glance, from first planning through the final report.

WhenWhat’s due
As you begin planningDefine the activity, objectives, and planning committee; collect planning disclosures.
At least 90 days beforeSubmit your application for review and approval. Applications submitted less than 90 days before the activity are charged an express fee.
After approval, before the activityFinalize learner materials and disclosures; sign any commercial-support agreement.
No later than 15 days beforeDisclosure forms from all speakers, faculty, and authors, summarized in a disclosure summary.
10 business days beforeAccess details for any electronic evaluation and credit-claiming system you will use, so BIEDX can test it.If applicable
ActivityRun the activity and capture attendance.
Within 30 days afterSubmit the attendance list.Monthly for internet enduring and journal-based; per session (sign-in) for regularly scheduled series.
Two months afterDistribute the post-activity outcomes survey to learners.
Within 4 months afterSubmit the final report.

What you’ll need

This checklist walks you through everything you’ll prepare and submit as our joint providership partner, phase by phase. Each item explains what it is. Required items are needed for every activity; If applicable items depend on your activity. Your BIEDX CME team will guide you at each step.

  • Activity details

    Required

    The title, format, date(s), location or delivery method, target audience, and estimated number of learners.

  • Needs assessment & practice-gap analysis

    Required

    Evidence of the professional practice gap the activity addresses — why the education is needed and what deficit in knowledge, skill, or patient outcomes it targets.

  • Learning objectives

    Required

    What learners should be able to do at the conclusion of the activity, written with measurable verbs.

  • Planning committee

    Required

    The list of individuals who will plan the activity and are responsible for its content.

  • Planning-committee disclosures

    Required

    A completed Disclosure of Financial Relationships form from each planner — collected before planning begins — listing (or attesting the absence of) financial relationships with ineligible companies.

  • Joint Providership Application

    Required

    Your full application describing the activity, its educational design, and its planning — submitted to your BIEDX CME team.

  • Planning minutes / narrative & recusal statements

    Required

    A short record of the planning meeting (date and attendees), plus a recusal statement for any planner who reported a conflict of interest.

  • Disclosure summary (planning committee)

    Required

    A single summary listing each planner, whether they had a conflict, and how it was mitigated — submitted in place of every individual form.

  • Post-test questions

    If applicable

    A set of assessment questions, required only if you are offering Self-Assessment credit (built on the BIEDX Self-Assessment template).

  • Commercial support document

    If applicable

    Documentation of any educational grant or in-kind support the activity will receive.

  • Commercial promotion document

    If applicable

    Documentation of any advertising, exhibit, or satellite-symposium arrangements.

  • Program materials / verbiage

    Required

    Your learner-facing materials (agenda, brochure, slide intro) carrying the accreditation and credit statements, objectives, and disclosures — sent to BIEDX for review before distribution.

  • Release, review & expiration dates

    If applicable

    For internet enduring, journal-based, and blended activities: the original release date, most recent review date, and expiration date that are displayed to learners and govern how long credit can be claimed.

  • Activity evaluation

    Required

    The evaluation learners complete at the end of the activity (the BIEDX Evaluation Form or your electronic equivalent), used to assess the activity against its objectives and to support credit claiming. Prepare it before the activity and collect the completed responses for your final report.

  • Faculty / speaker disclosures & disclosure summary

    Required

    Disclosure forms from all speakers, faculty, and authors, summarized in a disclosure summary and submitted no later than 15 days before the activity.

  • Disclosure list insert

    If applicable

    A learner handout of the disclosure information — used only when it cannot be printed directly in the program materials.

  • Credit-claiming system details

    If applicable

    Access details for any electronic evaluation and credit-claiming system you will use, submitted 10 business days before the activity so BIEDX can test it.

  • Signed Letter of Agreement (LOA)

    If applicable

    The signed agreement between the commercial company, your organization, and BIEDX — required before the activity whenever the activity receives commercial support.

  • Attendance list

    Required

    The record of who attended and the credit each learner earned — verified against the completed evaluations — submitted to BIEDX. Within 30 days for most formats; monthly for internet enduring and journal formats; and captured per session (sign-in) for regularly scheduled series.

  • Post-activity survey distribution

    Required

    Send the outcomes survey to all learners two months after their participation, to measure change in competence, performance, or patient outcomes.

  • Final report

    Required

    Submitted within 4 months, including three samples each of evaluation forms and post-activity surveys, plus a summary of all comments.

Before you apply

Submit your application at least 90 days before the activity. Applications submitted less than 90 days before the activity are charged an express fee. Planning starts earlier: the needs assessment, learning objectives, and planning committee come first, and each planner’s disclosure is collected before planning begins.

Live meetings, internet enduring materials, journal-based CME, regularly scheduled series, and hybrid or blended activities.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, with optional Self-Assessment credit where a certifying-board requirement applies. Offering Self-Assessment credit adds one item to your application: a set of post-test questions built on the BIEDX Self-Assessment template.

Two items are added. With your application, you document any educational grant or in-kind support. Before the activity, the commercial company, your organization, and BIEDX sign a Letter of Agreement. Advertising, exhibits, or satellite symposia are documented separately, in a commercial promotion document.

BIEDX collects disclosures and mitigates conflicts of interest with you. You provide completed disclosure forms from every planner before planning begins, and from every speaker, faculty member, and author no later than 15 days before the activity. Any planner who reported a conflict also provides a recusal statement.

Submit the attendance list within 30 days for most formats — monthly for internet enduring and journal formats, and captured per session (sign-in) for regularly scheduled series. Two months after learners take part, send them the outcomes survey. The final report follows within 4 months, and BIEDX closes the CME file.

Take the next step

Ready to get started?

Tell us about your activity and we’ll guide you through the application. We recommend reaching out at least 90 days before your planned activity date.

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