**Speakers please note: Your disclosure slide can be uploaded with your completed COI form. Have your completed slide, as well as a brief bio, ready before you begin to fill out this form.
This form is collecting the following
- Conflict of Interest Declaration for Accreditation
- Disclosure Slide (For speakers: first fill out your disclosure slide before completing the electronic conflict-of-interest (COI) form.
- 2-3 sentence speaker bio for introductory purposes
- Speaker Release for Video and Audio Recording
Click REGISTER in the left-hand column, once you are ready to complete your form.
Please note that this is the COI submission process and the form also includes the delegate registration questions.
To view the program for this event, please click here.
The National Standard for Support of Accredited CPD Activities (the National Standard) describes the process and requirements for gathering, managing, and disclosing conflicts of interest to participants. The National Standard is applicable to all accredited CPD activities included within the Canadian national/provincial CME/CPD accreditation systems for physicians.
Definitions:
Conflict of interest: A conflict of interest is a set of conditions in which judgement or decisions concerning a primary interest (example a patients’ welfare, the validity of research and/or quality of medical education) is unduly influenced by a secondary interest (personal or organizational benefit including financial gain, academic or career advancement, or other benefits to family, friends, or colleagues).
Perceived conflict of interest: A perceived conflict of interest is the appearance of a conflict of interest as judged by outside observers regardless of whether an actual conflict of interest exists
Real conflict of interest: A real conflict of interest is when two or more interests are indisputably in conflict.
National Standard Element 3: Conflict of Interest
This element describes the processes and requirements for gathering, managing and disclosing conflicts of interest to participants.
3.1 All members of the SPC, speakers, moderators, facilitators and authors must provide to the CPD provider organization a written description of all relationships with for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, irrespective of the subject being discussed, over the previous 2 years including (but not necessarily limited to):
a) Any direct financial payments including receipt of honoraria;
b) Membership on advisory boards or speakers’ bureaus;
c) Funded grants or clinical trials;
d) Patents on a drug, product or device; and
e) All other investments or relationships that could be seen by a reasonable, well-informed participant as having the potential to influence the content of the educational activity.
3.2 The SPC is responsible to review all disclosed financial relationships of speakers, moderators, facilitators and authors in advance of the CPD activity to determine whether action is required to manage potential or real conflicts of interest. The SPC must also have procedures in place to be followed if a conflict of interest comes to its attention prior to or during the CPD activity.
3.3 All members of the SPC, speakers, moderators, facilitators, and authors, must disclose to participants their relationships as described in 3.1
3.4 Any individual who fails to disclose their relationships as described in 3.1 and 3.3 cannot participate as a member of the SPC, speaker, moderator, facilitator or author of an accredited CPD activity.
What to Disclose
It has become increasingly important to Continuing Medical Education/Continuing Professional Development (“CME/CPD”) planners and participants that there is full disclosure and if feasible, resolution of any competing interests with respect to information being presented at a CME/CPD event. Please list any affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial or other interest that may have a direct or indirect connection to the content of a CME/CPD presentation. A potential conflict of interest is a situation where the personal and professional interests of individuals may have actual, potential, or apparent influence. In particular, for the 2 year period prior to a CME activity, we are asking all presenters and course planners to disclose conflicts using the online form by clicking the REGISTER button. A conflict of interest could include, but is not limited to, the following:
It is the presenter’s responsibility to ensure that their presentation (including any recommendations made) is balanced, and reflects the current scientific literature. Presentations must give a balanced view of all relevant therapeutic options available and a fair assessment must be presented.
Unapproved use of products or services must be declared at the beginning of the presentation.
In addition, the college requires faculty presentations to be consistent in their use generic names during their presentation. When using trade names, it is preferable to use multiple trade names per product (if available) rather than referencing a single trade name.
How to Disclose
Each presenter should announce to the audience both verbally and in writing disclosure of the preceding information, if applicable, prior to any presentation with a slide. Speakers who have no involvement with commercial interests should also inform the audience that they are unable to identify any potential conflict of interest and have nothing to disclose.
Each presenter should announce to the audience disclosure of discussion of off-label use, if applicable, prior to any presentation content with a slide.
False disclosure or failure to disclose conflict of interest as outlined in this document could require the planning committee to replace the presenter/speaker.
