A continuing conversation with Dion Richetti, vice president of accreditation and recognition, and Teri McCauley, manager of accreditation and recognition systems with the AACCME. Read ACCME PARS Update, Part 1 of 3: Reaccreditation Processes. 

The ACCME updated the reaccreditation process in early 2018. To discover the extend of the changes and provide guidance to readers, Erin Schwarz and Jacob Coverstone, editors representing the Almanac, spoke with Dion Richetti, vice president of accreditation and recognition, and Teri McCauley, manager of accreditation and recognition systems with the ACCME. According to Richetti, even though things are different, little is changing. After speaking with the ACCME … we kind of agree. Since announcing the changes, the ACCME has held webinars for providers preparing for reaccreditation, but we at the Almanac want to prepare providers at all stages of accreditation for the changes. (See a short summary of the changes at the bottom of this article.) The following series is taken from a conversation that confronted assumptions, challenged processes and (we hope) clarifies ACCME reaccreditation going forward.