Directly Provided: An activity that is planned, implemented, and evaluated by the accredited CE provider. This definition includes co-provided activities (offered by two accredited providers) reported by the accredited provider that awards the credit.
Jointly Provided: An activity that is planned, implemented, and evaluated by an accredited provider and one or more non-accredited entities.
Course: A live activity where the learner participates in person (examples: annual meeting, conference, seminar).
Regularly Scheduled Series (RSS): A course planned as a series with multiple, ongoing sessions, that may be offered weekly, monthly, or quarterly; and is primarily planned by and presented to the accredited organization's professional staff. (examples: grand rounds, tumor boards, morbidity and mortality conferences).
Internet Live: An online course only available at a certain time on a certain date in realtime (examples: webcast, webinar).
Enduring Materials Internet: An online course available when the learner chooses to complete it (examples: online interactive educational module, recorded presentation, podcast).
Performance Improvement: Activities based on a learner’s participation in a project established and/or guided by a provider in which a learner identifies an educational need through a measure of his/her performance in practice.
Enduring Materials: A printed, recorded, or computer-presented activity that may be used over time at various locations and which in itself constitutes a planned activity.
Journal CE: Activity that includes the reading of any article (or adapted formats for special needs).
Cultural and Linguistic Competency (CLC): The ability and readiness of health care providers and organizations to humbly and respectfully demonstrate, effectively communicate, and tailor delivery of care to patients with diverse values, beliefs, identities and behaviors, in order to meet social, cultural and linguistic needs as they relate to patient health.
Implicity Bias (IB): The attitudes, stereotypes and feelings, either positive or negative, that affect our understanding, actions and decisions without conscious knowledge or control. Implicit bias is a universal phenomenon. When negative, implicit bias often contributes to unequal treatment and disparities in diagnosis, treatment decisions, levels of care and health care outcomes of people based on race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability and other characteristics.
Other: The activity format for blended, new, or other approaches that do not fall into one of the established format categories.