• Assure your event meets Credit Eligiblity Criteria
  • Review the Application Requirements Table & submit all required components to expedite approval process. 
  • Follow directions built into the application. Documents linked in application directions are available on the Duke CE website Help Center  Course Admin Resources.
  • Description: Provide a basic summative course description appropriate for learners to read. Include previous course code if this is a renewal. Start and Expiration Dates are required for determining credit expiration. Event Date(s) our office requires the first and other planned dates/times of the course to determine the window for accreditation.  Frequency: Include the date/time/location & max enrollment for each planned occurrence of an event/course. Indicate the registration/attendance method you plan to use to document participation (API, Duke LMS, Duke Ethos, private system, etc).
    • Types of Credits Requested: Credit request, planning committee & target audience must match (for example: if asking for nursing credit, a nurse must be on committee and part of the target audience, if asking for pharmacy credit, a pharmacist must be on committee and part of the target audience, etc…) Credit Types through Duke
    • Sponsorship: Directly Sponsored is credit provided by DUHS only.  Jointly Sponsored means there is an external organization collaborating with the Duke CE office to provide credit for the event.  Contact CE office for process details at CEPD-JAC@dm.duke.edu
    • Number of Credits requested: determined by CE Office, estimate or may leave blank.
  • Faculty: Match spelling to submitted disclosure form. Include credentials/licenses related to course planning role. Credit request, planning committee & target audience must match (for example: if asking for nursing credit, a nurse must be on committee and part of the target audience, if asking for pharmacy credit, a pharmacist must be on committee and part of the target audience, etc…)
    • Disclosure Forms are required for all involved in the planning & teaching of educational content.  Complete prior to submitting the application using the Disclosure Form document to facilitate application process. All financial relationships must be mitigated prior to planning the CE activity. *Additional speakers must resolve any conflict of interest & submit disclosures 1 week prior to any educational activity. Review active disclosures on the  CE Disclosure Dashboard to verify all planners and presenters have current disclosures on file.
  • Audience: Credit request, planning committee & target audience must correlate. Select geographic location and specialties as appropriate.
  • Competencies: refer to Learning Activity Definitions. You must agree to the department and ACCME Rules for credit approval.
  • Gap Analysis: Describe the gap between the actual and ideal practice (desired state v. current reality)
    • Educational Need: Describe the perceived need for knowledge/competence/performance as identified by the planner via practice, experience, reflection, questioning, practice audits, self-assessment evaluation, peer review’s judgment, surveys, focus groups, analysis of practice and other sources.
    • Learning Objective: Learner objectives should be specific, measurable and stated from the perspective of a learner. A learning objective should identify what the learner will do as a result of attending the activity using specific action verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy
    • Desired Results: Describe the ideal change in practice
    • Barriers: Identified barriers must include a plan for addressing the barriers
    • Outcomes: Selected outcome measurement(s) are to be filed in your course file to meet ACCME expectations
    • AGENDA, ETC: Submit complete agenda with actual start & end times of an activity. See Example Agenda &/or Syllabus Requirements. The agenda and/or syllabus is used to calculate credits. Additional items to submit include course flyers & advertisements/marketing, developed slides, contracts &/or grants related to the course. Review Advertising Requirements.  Advertising of the event with credits is not allowed prior to receiving approval. Save the date advertising is allowed without reference to credits.
  • Financial: enter fees (if any) for participants.  Select Funding Source appropriate to event.
    • Commercial Support and Exhibitors: Will this activity receive commercial support (financial or in-kind grants or donations) from a company such as a pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturer? Note: exhibit fees are not considered commercial support. Participating vendors must complete and submit Duke Hold Harmless forms 2 weeks prior to the event. Grants associated with this event must be submitted in their entirety without amendment to this office.
    • Budget:  All charges, fees, grants, donations, commercial support are to be included in the budget and attached (including zero budget activities). The Budget Template has calculation formulas embedded for your convenience.
  • Manage: You must select Yes for "This form is complete and ready for submission" in order to submit application