Accreditation

Where the accreditation stands

Status

Being finalised

Accredited provider

To be announced

Credit designation

To be announced

Joint Accreditation number

To be announced

The shape of the programme is settled — two days, three sessions, five hands-on stations, all of it published on the agenda, down to the handful of talks whose titles the organiser has yet to confirm. The accreditation is not. Until the provider issues its statements, this page names no provider and quotes no number.

Why no credit figure appears here

SPECTRUM Urology runs inside the SPECTRUM Conference, and the parent meeting publishes its own accreditation for its own programme. That designation was issued for that activity and belongs to it. Repeating the figure here, or scaling it to these two days, would be arithmetic presented as a regulated claim.

A credit designation is issued by an accredited provider for one specific activity, after that provider has reviewed the programme. It is not an estimate the organisers or this website are entitled to make on their behalf. So the figure is absent rather than approximate, and it stays absent until it is confirmed.

What will be published once it is confirmed

An accreditation page is two statements and a rule.

The accreditation statement names the organisation accrediting the activity and the bodies it is accredited by. The designation statement gives the maximum number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, trademark the activity is designated for. Both will be printed here verbatim, in the form the provider issues them.

The rule needs no confirmation, because it holds at every accredited meeting: physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Attend one day of the two and you claim one day.

Faculty and planner disclosures follow the same schedule. Relevant financial relationships are collected by the accredited provider, mitigated before the education is delivered, and disclosed to learners beforehand. How that disclosure is made for this meeting is part of what the provider confirms, and it will be stated here with the rest.

Education, kept separate from promotion

The ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education require accredited education to be independent of the companies whose products it might discuss. The Standards call those companies ineligible — any company whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Independence is not a claim a meeting makes about itself. It is a set of separations it has to be able to show.

This is what the separation looks like on this site, which is the part of the meeting a reader can check today.

• Commercial support lives on one page. A supporter logo may appear only inside the sealed zone on the supporters page — never on the agenda, the faculty index, the workshop pages, or this one. As it happens there is nothing to show there yet: no support is confirmed for 2027.
• Everywhere else, acknowledgement is name-only. A company name set in the same type as the rest of the page, with no mark, no logo and no commercial styling — because that is precisely the distinction the Standards draw.
• Content belongs to the faculty. Under the Standards an ineligible company can have no part in identifying the educational need, selecting faculty, or shaping what is said. Each of the three Sunday sessions has a named faculty lead, and every talk on the agenda is attributed to a named speaker.
• An exhibit is not education.Sunday takes SPECTRUM’s main room with exhibitors alongside it. Exhibition space is never part of an accredited programme, and nothing presented in it is accredited.

None of this is unusual — it is the ordinary shape of an accredited meeting. It is written down because the accreditation itself is still open, and a reader deciding whether to attend is entitled to see what is already settled while they wait for the rest.