Does the ACCME accredit individual courses?

A physician in Morristown comparing injector courses may see "ACCME" in the marketing and wonder whether that body has approved the course in front of them. The ACCME's own wording settles the first half of that.

No, it accredits providers, not courses

It does not. The ACCME states: "The ACCME does not accredit individual educational activities. ACCME accreditation is a voluntary system, based on professional self-regulation and peer review." The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, as the body is formally named, describes accreditation on its own site in those terms.

The passage stops there. It does not say what a course may claim, who does hold accreditation, or how credit is awarded, so none of that should be assumed from it.

A mention of the ACCME versus your renewal rule

Routine: a course page that mentions the ACCME at all. Mentioning the council is not the same as being accredited by it, and the passage above says the council does not accredit individual activities in the first place.

Worth acting on: the New Jersey side. If you hold a New Jersey license, read the rule text the Legal Information Institute posts at New Jersey Administrative Code § 13:37-5.3 and confirm it covers your license type. Medical Economics also publishes a page on New Jersey continuing medical education. Check what credit your license renewal needs before you assume any course will count. Clinicians who also look at programs a train ride east, in the larger metropolitan market, should run the same check for each one.

Find out who is claiming the credit

Ask the course who is claiming credit and ask for that claim in writing. The ACCME passage tells you what it does not do, so the claim has to come from somewhere else, and knowing where is what lets you judge whether it is worth paying for.