What is the difference between Direct Sponsorship, Joint Sponsorship and Co-sponsorship?
Direct Sponsorship occurs when departments/centers within the College of Medicine and Hospital, Howard University, offer a CME activity in cooperation with the Office of Continuing Medical Education. Joint Sponsorship occurs when an ACCME-accredited provider (Howard University College of Medicine and Hospital, Office of Continuing Medical Education) plans and presents one or more activities with non-ACCME accredited providers. Specific to jointly sponsored activities, the accredited provider must inform the learner of the joint sponsorship relationship through the use of the appropriate accreditation statement at www.accme.org. A commercial interest, defined as any proprietary entity producing health care goods or services, with the exception of non-profit or government organizations and non-health care related companies, cannot take the role of non-accredited partner in a joint sponsorship relationship. View ACCME policies at www.accme.org. Co-sponsorship occurs when two or more accre
