Credit Statements
Physicians
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ASTRO designates this live activity for a maximum of 17.75
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Physicists
This activity has been approved for a maximum of 18.24 Medical Physics Continuing Education Credits (MPCEC) by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Program (CAMPEP).
CAMPEP Credits are only available to in-person symposium attendees and not to virtual symposium attendees.
Evaluation
To be eligible to receive continuing education credit, attendees must complete the online evaluation by Tuesday, March 29, 2022.
To complete the evaluation and claim CME:
- Be sure you are logged in on the ASTRO Academy
- Your user id and password are the same as your credentials for astro.org
- Click on My Activities --> Pending activities
- Click on the meeting for which you would like to claim credits
- Click on Take Course and attest to the amount of credits for sessions you attended, the maximum credits you can claim are listed, follow the rest of the instructions and you will receive your credits.
Certificates of Credit
CME certificates of credit are only available to participants who have completed the online evaluation tool. Participants will have online access to their certificate upon completion of the evaluation. Participants can access, print and save their certificate from ASTRO Academy.
Physicist attendees will not receive certificates of credit from ASTRO. The names of physicist attendees will be sent to CAMPEP 45 days after the meeting. Any credits claimed after the evaluation deadline of March 29, 2022, will not be submitted by ASTRO to CAMPEP.
Disclosure of Vested Interest
ASTRO is an accredited provider of continuing medical education. Since our accreditation is important to us, we plan activities that are compliant with the ACCME and the content or format of CME activities and related materials will promote improvements or quality in health care and not a specific proprietary business interest or commercial bias. Planning Committee members and speakers are required to disclose the existence of any financial or other relationship with the manufacturer(s) or any commercial product(s) or provider(s) of any commercial services discussed in an educational presentation.
Any conflicts of interest are resolved prior to participation. In addition to written disclosure, presenters will disclose any vested interest or their intention to discuss off-label use of pharmaceuticals or devices, if applicable, to the audience at the beginning of their presentation and in accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education standards and the Food and Drug Administration requirements.
In an effort to increase transparency and easy access to all disclosures, planner and presenter disclosure information will be available online for the 2022 Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancers Symposium. In addition to being available online, disclosure slides will be shown prior to presentations occurring. Disclosure information will not be printed in paper versions of the meeting materials.
Disclaimer
ASTRO is committed to the free exchange of medical education. Inclusion of any presentation in this program, including presentations of off-label uses, does not imply an endorsement by ASTRO of the uses, products or techniques presented.
