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CORE CRITERIA

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CORE CRITERIA

Content Criteria applies to all CDR CPEU Prior Approved CPE and CDR CPEU Eligible CPE activities.

There are nine criteria:

CDR Content Criteria
	Continuing professional education (CPE) is nutrition and dietetics* related. CPE updates, enhances, or assesses knowledge, skills, and attitudes of professional dietetics practice. Nutrition and Dietetics: Nutrition and Dietetics reflects the integration of Nutrition— which encompasses the science of food, nutrients and other substances contributing to nutrition status and health, with Dietetics—which is the application of food, nutrition and associated sciences, to optimize health and the delivery of care and services for individuals and groups and as defined by the Essential Practice Competencies.
2.	CPE includes learning objectives* that apply to professional or inter-professional nutrition and dietetics practice as defined by the Essential Practice Competencies.
3.	CPE content addresses an educational need or narrows a practice gap that is relevant to professional nutrition and dietetics practice.
4.	Those responsible for CPE content have appropriate academic training, certification and/or demonstrated expertise in the relevant subject area. Academic training: Academic degrees of those responsible for CPE content should be relevant and from a university accredited by a USDE-recognized accrediting agency. Foreign academic degrees accredited by foreign equivalent institutions are accepted on the condition that they have been verified by one of the agencies listed on the Independent Foreign Degree Evaluation Agencies list. Certification: Credentials maintained by those responsible for CPE content are issued by relevant, recognized, and accredited programs that meet national or international standards. Demonstrated expertise: Demonstrated expertise may be established via publications relevant to CPE content in scientific, peer-reviewed professional journals or presentations relevant to CPE content at scientific, peer- reviewed conferences.
5.	Educational content is based on best available research evidence, * which is supported by documentation from reputable, peer-reviewed, scientific journals. Areas of doubt or controversy are identified and discussed. Referenced content supports safe, effective customer care or service. * Reference lists are available to learners.
6.	Educational content is absent of commercial bias and marketing. * Disclosures of conflicts of interest* and commercial support* are provided to learners before learners participate in the activity. CPE contains informational content but does not include promotional content. Informational content is that which raises awareness through education. Informational content is based on best available research evidence, which is supported by documentation from reputable, peer-reviewed scientific research. Promotional content is that which advertises an organization, product, or service, and is used to influence purchasing decisions.
7.	CPE activities are a minimum of one (1) CPEU. Exceptions include poster presentations, expert work, topic-specific CPE required for licensure, professional reading, enduring, and mixed activities, which can be a minimum of 0.5 CPEUs. Activities can be rounded to the nearest quarter hour (.25 CPEUs). One CPEU is equivalent to one contact hour.
8.	CPE that addresses diet and nutrition topics* includes a CDR-credentialed RD or DTR in program planning. See exclusions. Nutrition and Diet Topics: Topics focused on the science of food, nutrients, and other substances intended for intake or infusion; the action, interaction, and balance of food, nutrients, and other substances in relation to health and disease; and the processes by which food, nutrients, and other substances are ingested, absorbed, transported, utilized, and excreted. Exclusions: Joint Accreditation Accrediting Organizations Activities offered by Providers accredited by Joint Accreditation Accrediting Organizations (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education [ACCME], Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education [ACPE], American Nurses Credentialing Center [ANCC], American Academy of Physician Assistants [AAPA], Association of Social Work Boards [ASWB], American Dental Association’s Continuing Education Recognition Program [ADA CERP], American Psychological Association [APA], Board of Certification for the Athletic Trainer [BOC], and Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry’s Council on Optometric Practitioner Education [ARBO/COPE]) Joint Accreditation Accredited Providers CE Offered by Jointly Accredited Providers Academic Coursework (Activity Type 100) Other organizations Activities offered by American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), American Psychiatric Association (APA), and American Public Health Association (APHA)
9.	CPE activities comply with CDR’s Activity Type Definitions.^†
* CDR CPEU Prior Approval Program Glossary of Terms † CDR Activity Type Definitions