Continuing Medical Education (CME)
The American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, Inc. (ASLMS) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ASLMS offers a variety of CME educational activities and strives to maintain quality programming with ACCME compliance.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
As an ACCME Accredited Provider, the ASLMS designates continuing medical education (CME) activities for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. To designate CME activities for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, the organization must:
- Be accredited by either the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) or a recognized state medical society (SMS).
- Meet all requirements of both the AMA and their accreditor (ACCME or SMS).
Accreditation Criteria
As part of its measures to ensure quality CME programming, ASLMS complies with ACCME Accreditation Criteria for the planning, implementation, and documentation of all educational activities.
CME Mission Statement
The purpose of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS) Accredited Continuing Education (CE) program is to enhance the understanding of lasers and the application of laser, light, energy-based, and related technologies in biomedicine. The ASLMS is committed to continuous quality improvement and excellence in all of its accredited CE activities.
Expected Results
The ASLMS Accredited CE Program provides educational activities that allow learners to identify gaps in their knowledge, competence, and/or performance. The expected result is changes in learners’ competence, and, when appropriate, performance, in the areas of research, education, and standards of clinical care as they relate to medical laser and energy-based device applications. Learners will use the knowledge gained to improve clinical outcomes as a result of their improved understanding of the best practices relative to patient treatment with these technologies and their safe use.
Learner's Bill of Rights
The American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, Inc. (ASLMS) recognizes that you are a life-long learner who has chosen to engage in continuing medical education to identify or fill a gap in knowledge, skill, or performance. As part of ASLMS’ duty to you as a learner, you have the right to expect that your continuing medical education experience with ASLMS includes:
Content That
- promotes improvements or quality in health care;
- is valid, reliable, and accurate;
- offers balanced presentations that are free of commercial bias for or against a product/service;
- is vetted through a process that resolves any conflicts of interests of planners, teachers, or authors;
- is driven and based on learning needs, not commercial interests;
- addresses the stated objectives or purpose; and
- is evaluated for its effectiveness in meeting the identified educational need.
A Learning Environment That
- supports learners’ ability to meet their individual needs;
- respects and attends to any special needs of the learners;
- respects the diversity of groups of learners; and
- is free of promotional, commercial, and/or sales activities.
Disclosure Of
- relevant financial relationships planners, teachers, and authors have with commercial interests related to the content of the activity; and
- commercial support (funding or in-kind resources) of the activity.