Accreditation for online healthcare education is crucial for several reasons:

Quality Assurance: Accreditation ensures that the education provided meets established quality standards. It ensures that the curriculum, faculty, resources, and overall educational experience meet or exceed benchmarks. This is particularly crucial in healthcare education, where accuracy, proficiency, and ethical standards are paramount.

Professional Recognition: Accredited programs are often recognised and respected by professional organisations, licensing boards, and employers. Delivering accredited content as an author can positively impact job prospects and career advancement.

Transferability of Credits: Accredited programs typically allow for easier transfer of credits between institutions. Your audience will increase if you deliver accredited content. Your students might want to change work location. If they can demonstrate that they studied accredited content, they can provide more reassurance to their future employers.

Transparency in Financial Aid: Accredited content can only be produced with the financial support of eligible companies or unrestricted grants of ineligible companies. Commercial bias needs to be mitigated. This process increases the reliability of your content.

Consumer Protection: Accreditation is a form of consumer protection, ensuring that healthcare professionals invest their time, effort, and money in programs that meet specific quality standards. It helps prevent fraudulent or subpar educational offerings.

Adherence to Regulatory Standards: Healthcare education often involves handling sensitive information and dealing with people's health. Accreditation ensures that programs adhere to legal and ethical standards required in healthcare practice, safeguarding patient well-being.

Continuous Improvement: Accredited programs are regularly evaluated and held accountable for maintaining their standards. This encourages continuous improvement and innovation in curriculum, teaching methods, and resources, ultimately benefiting healthcare professionals.

In healthcare education, where the knowledge and skills obtained directly impact patient care and safety, accreditation becomes even more critical to ensure that healthcare professionals are well-prepared and competent.

Accrecent works with a Creative Commons license. This means you can share your content on other learning platforms. However, the accreditation of your content is only available on our platform, www.cmepedia.com. As part of the accreditation requirements, accredited content cannot be changed while accredited. We would not be able to track changes on other platforms. Accrediting bodies monitor the surveys on your e-modules via www.cmepedia.com and have access to an overview of the production cost of your content to ensure we do not collaborate with ineligible companies.

Your primary focus will be on Indian physicians, nurses and dentists, extending access to students and other healthcare professionals to broaden the impact and benefits of your educational content.

Your topic needs to be related to problems in practice and/or patient care. You examine those problems and look for knowledge, strategy, skill, performance, or system deficits that could be contributing to the problems. Your education needs to address the problem effectively.

1. You initiate the collaboration by completing a declaration of interest. We review it, categorizing it as either no interests, limited interests, or significant interests to declare. This status determines your eligibility to become an author across your fields of expertise, whether certain topics should be postponed due to potential commercial bias, or if you should focus solely on non-clinical issues.

2. We examine your CV and, if available, your previous publications.

3. Upon completing the initial screening process, we'll notify you via email. We'll also conduct a similar process for any co-authors, checking if you work independently or are affiliated with an institute.

4. If selected as a potential author for our proposals, we'll request any relevant materials you already possess via email, specifying your reference number.

5. Alternatively, if you submit a proposal, we'll check for duplication in our pipeline or available accredited courses. If your topic matches an existing accredited course, we'll offer it to our content providers. If they decline, we'll proceed with your content's production.

6. You'll be invited for a brief video call. During this call, we'll discuss the level of assistance you require, remuneration, and project timeline.

7. We'll send you a concept agreement. Upon acceptance, we'll gather your tax and bank details.

8. You'll gain access to your author profile, where you can upload your course material.

9. We'll share an initial draft of your course based on the materials you submitted. Detailed instructions on meeting accreditation standards will accompany this draft.

10. Your draft will undergo anonymous peer review.

11. We'll provide you with peer review feedback.

12. After integrating feedback, the course will be activated.

13. You can monitor your course's uptake via your dashboard. Depending on your remuneration terms, you'll receive either a one-time honorarium or monthly profits from sales throughout the accreditation period.