Continuing Medical Education

2022 Grand Rounds Numbers
USA Office of CME had 793 grand rounds talks providing over 27946.75 credits to over 10,600 physicians, 84 pharmacists, 2912 nurses, 354 physician assistants, 354 psychologists, 294 social workers, 74 dietitians, 4403 other disciplines including athletic trainers, pharmacy technicians, human resource specialist, mental health professionals, and others. We will continue to provide education for the health care team by the healthcare team.
Continuing education for the team and by the team.
2024 We will no longer offer AAPA, CDR, BOC, and SHRM credit unless usage increases.
USA's Office of CME is now an accredited provider offering credits for the following:
Joint Accreditation
AMA Credit
Pharmacy Credit
APA Credit
ANCC Credit
Dietitian Credit
Physician Assistant Credit
Athletic Trainer
NBCC Approval
Welcome to the Office of Continuing Medical Education
Education by the team, for the team.
The University of South Alabama College of Medicine is accredited by the Joint Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for the healthcare team by the healthcare team. For more than 40 years, USA's College of Medicine has been dedicated to sponsoring medical education activities that enable healthcare professionals and the healthcare team to better diagnose, treat, manage, and educate their patients. The Office of Continuing Medical Education plans and implements CME activities in accordance with the Joint Accreditation Criteria and the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence.
The Office of Continuing Medical Education provides live, live webcasts, and enduring medical education activities on a wide range of clinical disciplines. Please see our schedules listed in the left column.
Monday - Friday
7:00 - 4:30
Closed on all major holidays.
Disclosure information for planner, speakers, and participants. Commercial bias
Content or format in a CME activity or its related materials that promotes the products or business lines of an ineligible company. As described in the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, providers are responsible for protecting
learners from commercial bias and marketing. In addition to preventing influence from ineligible companies, the Standards prohibit faculty from actively promoting or selling products or services that serve their professional or financial interests. Commercial interest
See ineligible company. Commercial support
Financial or in-kind support from an ACCME-defined ineligible company that is used to pay all or part of the costs of a CME activity. The requirements for receiving and managing commercial support are explained in the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, specifically Standard 4: Manage Commercial Support Appropriately. Financial relationships
Accredited providers must collect information from all planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content about all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. There is no minimum financial threshold; individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies. Individuals must disclose financial relationships with ineligible companies regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education. See also relevant financial relationships. Ineligible Company aka Commercial Interest
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. Relevant financial relationships
As defined in the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, specifically, Standard 3: Identify, Mitigate, and Disclose Relevant Financial Relationships, relevant financial relationships are financial relationships of any amount with
ineligible companies if the educational content is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. Providers are required to collect information from all those individuals in control of educational content about all of their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. (Including the next 12 months) The provider is then responsible for determining which relationships are relevant.