• Baystate Health Continuing Interprofessional Education follows the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.
• EXHIBITOR agrees to abide by ACCME accreditation requirements and ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education (“Standards”) as stated at https://www.accme.org/publications/standards-for-integrity-and-independence-accredited-continuing-education. The Standards include, but are not limited to, the following requirements:
  • Accredited continuing education must protect learners from commercial bias and marketing.
  • Accredited education must be free of marketing or sales of products or services. Faculty must not actively promote or sell products or services that serve their professional or financial interests during accredited education.
  • The accredited provider must not share the names or contact information of learners with any ineligible company or its agents without the explicit consent of the individual learner.
• EXHIBITOR may only distribute educational promotional materials at their exhibit space.  Distribution of non-educational items (pens, notepads, etc.), pharmaceuticals or product samples is prohibited.
• Representatives of commercial supporters may attend an educational activity, but may not engage in sales activities while in the room where the activity takes place.
• All exhibit fees associated with this activity will be given with the full knowledge of the ACCREDITED PROVIDER.  No additional payments, goods, services or events will be provided to the course director(s), planning committee members, faculty, joint provider, or any other party involved with the activity.
• Completion of this agreement represents a commitment and EXHIBITOR is obligated to provide full payment of all amounts due under this agreement by the ACTIVITY DATE unless otherwise agreed upon by the ACCREDITED PROVIDER.  ACCREDITED PROVIDER reserves the right to refuse exhibit space to EXHIBITOR in the event of nonpayment or Code of Conduct violation.
• ACCREDITED PROVIDER agrees to provide exhibit space and may acknowledge EXHIBITOR in activity announcements.  ACCREDITED PROVIDER reserves the right to assign exhibit space or relocate exhibits at its discretion.
• When commercial exhibits are part of the overall program, arrangements for these will not influence planning or interfere with the presentation of continuing education activities.

Note:  All exhibitors must be approved by BCIPE and this agreement is not binding until both parties have signed.  BCIPE maintains the right to refuse any exhibitor.