How to apply - Live events

1. Register as a CME organiser

ACOE requires a formal registration in order to identify you as an organiser of CME activity. The registration form contains simple questions concerning the provider’s status and contact information. To register, please click here.

2. Logon and Password

Once you are registered as an organiser of CME acitivities, you will receive via e-mail a logon and password that will enable you to access the application form for CME accreditation. Your logon and password will also allow you to follow the status of your application.

3. The application form

The information you will enter in the application form will serve as the basis for the quality assessment by ACOE of your CME acitivity.

4. Programme of the event, participants’ evaluation form and other relevant information

After having completed the application form, you will be invited to upload the programme of the acitivity, the form that you intend to use for its evaluation (should it be different from the ACOE standard participant’s evaluation form) and any other document you would consider useful for the quality assessment.

Please note that a 'Declaration on disclosure' and a 'Course Director's commitment', duly completed and signed, are also needed by UEMS/EACCME in order to process your application.

5. Decision on accreditation

Assessment of your application will be performed by the ACOE councillors within a delay of three to four weeks. You will be informed of the outcome of their appraisal via e-mail.

6. Number of CME credit points awarded to an event

ACOE determines the number of CME credit points awarded to an acitivity. Basically, one credit point is granted per full educational hour of the scientific programme, with a maximum of 6 ECMEC’s for a full day and 3 ECMEC’s for a half day.

7. European endorsement

If approved by ACOE, your application will automatically be submitted for European endorsement to the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Association of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). This additional step is needed to ensure the recognition in your home country of the CME credits awarded by ACOE.

The UEMS will inform you of the European endorsement of the CME event within six weeks following the request has been made.

8. Certificate of attendance

The certificate of attendance to be handed out to the participants to live events should indicate that the event has been reviewed and appraised by the Accreditation Council of Oncology in Europe (ACOE).

It should further indicate that European accreditation has been granted to the event by the European Accreditation Council for CME (EACCME) of the UEMS. The total number of CME credits awarded to the event should clearly appear.

In the case the attendance is monitored, the organiser should specify on the certificate the number of credits the participant has earned. In the case the conference operates an honour system, participants should only claim those hours of credit that they have actually spent in the education activity.

American Medical Association (AMA) and the Accreditation Council for Continuous Medical Education (ACCME) designate this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA category 1 credits. Physicians should only claim credit measurable to the extent of their participation in the activity.

9. Evaluation report

Within three months following the event, organisers are requested to provide an Evaluation report on the basis of the analysis of the participant’s evaluation forms