COURSE PROVIDERS

If you are a vendor or a laboratory offering courses, lectures, webinars, journal clubs, etc. it is a benefit for your audience to get your offering approved by the ACHI and become an approved CE provider. Attendees will receive 0.15 CEs per contact hour for any courses offered by approved providers. (Courses offered by non-approved providers are equal to 1 contact hour or 0.10 CECs.)

ACHI Approved Provider Application

Provider Fees

CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM PROCESS FOR BECOMING AN APPROVED PROVIDER

1. The provider must submit to ACHI (formerly ABHI) a description of the program detailing the content, the presenter(s) and the target group of attendees on the CE Activity Form.

2. This description must be submitted 30 days prior to the meeting or start of annual program

3. Pay the appropriate fee

4. The program must fulfill the following requirements of a Program of Continuing Education (PCE):

A. The program should be a planned learning experience designed to promote the continual development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes

B. The program must be a minimum of one (1) hour

C. The program should have qualified instruction and direction to assure that the educational objectives will be fulfilled

D. The program content, format and methodology must be conducive to achieving the program objectives

E. Program objectives should be stated in terms of what the participant will be able to do at the end of the program that he/she could not be expected to do prior to the program

G. The faculty members should have the background and experience necessary to teach the course, (abbreviated CVs required for each presenter)

H. Program content must cover at least one of the major fields of the current ACHI "Statements of Competence for Histocompatibility Personnel" and will be a formal scientific/career-related continuing education program

5. Program approval and the number of CEC's and contact hours earned will be determined by ACHI and reported to the provider.

6. The provider should advertise that the program has been submitted or approved for ACHI Continuing Education credit.

7. The provider must provide to each participant, as appropriate documentation, a "Certificate of Attendance" which includes the following (may be completed after the program):

A. The number of contact hours and CEC's earned

B. The name and address of the accrediting agency, ACHI

C. The course number issued by ACHI

D. A selection of categories and/or topics for the continuing education activity, e.g. include a check box for applicable topics, e.g. histocompatibility, serology, immunology, immunohematology, molecular genetics and/or supervision/administration

8. A list of all participants must be sent to ACHI (submitted after the program)