DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

As the accredited provider, Des Moines University (DMU) is committed to ensuring that accredited continuing education (1) presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations and (2) protects learners from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. DMU is responsible for identifying financial relationships between individuals in control of educational content and ineligible companies and managing them to ensure they do not introduce commercial bias. DMU is required to collect information from all planners, speakers, moderators, and others in control of educational content about all their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months.

Access the disclosure form.

AGENDA EXAMPLE

View an example of how the agenda should be constructed.

PRE-ACTIVITY CHECKLIST

Please provide the following information at least two (2) weeks before the activity. Credit cannot be promoted until DMU CME receives and approves this pre-activity checklist. Continuing education credit will not be awarded for activities that do not provide the requested documents.  Access the pre-activity checklist.

REQUIRED REGISTRATION QUESTIONS

  1. First name
  2. Last name
  3. Address
  4. Email (Must be unique to the individual.)
  5. Profession (These fields cannot be changed as the profession is credit mapped in our learning management system. Certificates will not be processed if these fields are not collected or altered.)
    1. MD
    2. DO
    3. PhD
    4. Nurse
    5. Nurse Practitioner
    6. Physician Assistant
    7. DPM
    8. Occupational Therapist
    9. Physical Therapist
    10. Social Worker
    11. Student
    12. Resident
    13. Other
  6. Degree/Credentials 
  7. Specialty

ATTENDEE DEMOGRAPHICS SPREADSHEET

DMU CME will award ALL participants a CME/CE certificate or certificate of attendance. The following attendee demographic information needs to be collected and returned to DMU CME after the activity to process certificates. All required cells must be completed.  Please plan to collect this information from ALL attendees. Access the Excel document.

EVALUATION QUESTIONS

The following evaluation questions are required. The evaluation must be emailed to the CME department for approval at least two (2) weeks before the activity start date. 

POST-ACTIVITY CHECKLIST

Please return the following documents within four (4) weeks of the activity. Continuing education certificates will be emailed to the attendees within one (1) week of receipt. Access the post-activity checklist.