Continuing Education Credits

The 2023 Multidisciplinary Thoracic Cancers Symposium gives you the opportunity to earn continuing education credits. To earn credits for the live symposium, in-person or virtual, complete the evaluation and attestation in the ASTRO Academy.

Evaluation

To be eligible to receive continuing education credit, attendees must complete the online evaluation and attestation by Tuesday, January 2, 2024. To complete the evaluation and claim continuing education credits, please follow the steps below:

  • Log in to ASTRO Academy using your ASTRO credentials.
    • Your email is the one you used to register for the meeting.
    • If you don't remember your password, click the Forgot Password? link.
  • In the Academy, select My Activities in the top navigation and then the Pending activities tab.
  • Click the 2023 Multidisciplinary Thoracic Cancers Symposium link under your Pending activities to complete the evaluation and receive continuing education credits (once you have completed the evaluation, you can then access from your Completed Activities tab).
  • Click Take Course, complete the evaluation 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 to receive your credits.


Please only evaluate and claim credit for the sessions you attended.

The 2023 Multidisciplinary Thoracic Cancers Symposium onDemand also offers continuing medical education credit.


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.

Live Symposium (In-person or Virtual): ASTRO designates this live course activity for a maximum of 16.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Symposium onDemand: ASTRO designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 16.75 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 16.75 Medical Physics Continuing Education Credits (MPCEC) by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Program (CAMPEP).

CAMPEP Credits are only available to live meeting participants. No CAMPEP credits will be available for the Symposium onDemand.


Certificates of Credit

CME certificates of credit are only available to participants who have completed the online evaluation. 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 Tuesday, January 2, 2024, 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 2023 Multidisciplinary Thoracic 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.

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