Rosemont, IL—July 25, 2023—Ken Slaw, Executive Director of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS), is pleased to announce that the SVS, based in Rosemont, IL, has been reaccredited as a provider of continuing medical education (CME) by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
The ACCME, based in the United States, is the gold standard for continuing medical education for physicians. This places the SVS at par with some of the most prestigious US medical schools, hospitals, and national medical associations throughout the world. ACCME providers certify that educational activities have been planned for physicians and include category 1 credit of the American Medical Association’s Physician’s Recognition Award (“AMA PRA”). AMA PRA Credits are utilized by state licensing boards and boards of medical specialties to re-license physicians and re-certify them in their areas of specialty and is recognized around the world by various countries’ physician certifying boards.
According to national continuing education advisor, Steven Passin, President of Steve Passin & Associates, “The SVS’s continued inclusion into the ranks of organizations that are ACCME accredited places them among those medical educators that have demonstrated the highest levels of educational acumen based on quality and patient safety parameters consistent with identified needs of the physicians for whom educational activities are targeted.”
ACCME accreditation seeks to assure health professionals and the public that continuing education activities provided by SVS meet the high standards of the Criteria for Accreditation and the Standards for Integrity and Independence of the ACCME. The ACCME rigorously evaluates the overall CME programs of institutions according to standards adopted by all sponsoring organizations of the ACCME including the American Board of Medical Specialties, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, the Association for Hospital Medical Education, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, and the Federation of State Medical Boards. The Society for Vascular Surgery is pleased to be part of a group of organizations in the United States and throughout the world, including major medical schools, national medical associations, hospitals, and other medical education organizations that have been awarded this accreditation status.
In announcing this achievement to the SVS staff and other stakeholders, Lisa Cohen, Director of Education and Professional Development for SVS, said, “This acknowledgment of SVS’s performance-in-practice further empowers our core educational mission to “develop and implement balanced and relevant CME activities that address the professional practice gaps of vascular surgeons, vascular physicians-in-training, and the vascular healthcare team resulting in improvements in competence, performance, and/or patient outcomes.”
For more information about the Society for Vascular Surgery’s CE program, please contact Lisa Cohen, Director of Education and Professional Development at (312) 334-2302
About the Society for Vascular Surgery
The Society for Vascular Surgery® (SVS) seeks to advance excellence and innovation in vascular health through education, advocacy, research and public awareness. The organization was founded in 1946 and currently has a membership of more than 6,300. SVS membership is recognized in the vascular community as a mark of professional achievement.