Required documentation related to disclosure of financial relationships with ineligible companies for planners, faculty, authors, applicable CME staff, and content reviewers of CME activities.
Below is information you need to know to disclose your financial relationships with companies related to health care products or services.
Why We Ask
Because Emory University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), we require your assistance to comply with accreditation guidelines and help us create high-quality education that is independent of industry influence. To participate in this educational activity, all individuals who have the ability to influence and/or control the content of this accredited CME activity must disclose all financial relationships with all companies — whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients — over the past 24 months. To confirm your participation in this CME activity, we ask that you complete our electronic disclosure form, available via our learning management system.
What to Disclose
- There is no minimum financial threshold; you must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with companies as described above; only disclose your own financial relationships, not those of your spouse or life partner.
- We ask you to disclose all financial relationships regardless of whether or not you view the relationships as relevant to the CME activity. The CME Office will determine if the information that you provide is relevant to the topics of the CME activity in which you will participate.
- Since healthcare professionals serve as trusted authorities when advising patients, they must protect the learning environment from industry influence to ensure they remain true to their ethical commitments.
- If the CME Office determines that the financial relationships create a conflict of interest, it also will determine the appropriate method of mitigation. Mitigation may involve but is not limited to an independent review of the content you develop (or if you are a planner, other methods will be utilized, including peer review of content by non-conflicted planners, etc.).
- Many healthcare professionals have financial relationships with companies as defined above. By identifying and mitigating relevant financial relationships, we will work together to create a protected space to learn, teach, and engage in scientific discourse free from the influence from organizations that may have an incentive to insert commercial bias into education.
- Please be reminded that the promotion of any product or service that serves their your own professional interest, such as a book you wrote, is not permitted within a CME activity.
Updated November 2025.