Journal CME
Accreditation: The American Thoracic Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation: The American Thoracic Society designates each Journal CME activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
CME Content: The ATS Journals offer readers opportunities to earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Articles designated for CME credit are designed to be the next step in the process of translating clinically relevant, evidence-based recommendations into clinical practice. This will be accomplished through a series of questions specifically designed by the author(s) to test that readers have the tools needed to translate recommendations for diagnostic and therapeutic clinical care into clinical practice. Post-test questions will assess if practitioners have understood the most important recommendations available for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary diseases, critical illness, and sleep disorders, and are able to implement them into clinical practice. Each Journal CME activity consists of the full-text article, a post-test quiz, and a course evaluation. Each CME activity should take approximately 1 hour to complete. This is an online-only activity.
Target Audience: Pulmonologists, critical care specialists, translational researchers, and clinicians.
How to Access ATS Journal CME Activities
- Starting December 5, 2022, ATS article-based CME activities are available from the ATS Store. You may browse Journal CME and select the learning activities you wish to take at shop.thoracic.org/collections/cme-moc/ethos-format-type-journal
- Go to the online journals' Table of Contents: Articles designated for CME will have a CME link on the left side of the article's title.
- Go to the article page: Articles designated for CME will have a CME link on the right side of the article's title.
- Go to the top of every online journal page: Select the blue button on the right labeled "More" and then click on "Browse CME Content" to be taken to a list of all available CME courses.
ATS Journal CME continues to be freely available to ATS members. We are pleased to announce that it is now also available for purchase from the ATS Store by individuals who are not members of the ATS. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
Manuscript Review CME
The American Thoracic Society provides AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for reviewing manuscripts. A reviewer must meet the requirements of the ACCME for manuscript review in order to be awarded credit.
Target Audience: Pulmonologists, critical care specialists, translational researchers, and clinicians. Also, physicians focused on increasing their knowledge of clinical education, medical education, meeting proceedings, research education, patient-focused education, and study/trial designs.
The CME Learning Objectives:
- Identify potential conflicts of interest of the authors and note any ethical concerns, including plagiarism, falsification of data, image forensics, or duplicate publication
- Identify important areas for improvement in the presentation and organization of the manuscript, data, tables, and figures
- Clearly communicate constructive feedback to authors that will enhance the final article
Accreditation: The American Thoracic Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation: The American Thoracic Society designates each manuscript review activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Once a review has been submitted, the Journal Editors will evaluate the review, and the reviewer will be notified by the ATS with a unique url to complete the evaluation. Please contact Suzette A. Machado at [email protected] if you have any questions regarding the ATS manuscript review CME program.
