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How to get CME the easy way!
Now that I have completed my residency and become a full fledged physician, I realized I would need to get CME in order to meet state licensing requirements. While the amount of CME required varies from state to state, in Pennsylvania, they require 200 credits every 2 years or 100 credits each year.
Out of these, a minimum of 40 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits hours
12 credit hours must be in the areas of patient safety or risk management and can be either AMA PRA Category 1 or Category 2 Credits. For category 1, you can take any of the courses online. Medscape is the best place for easy and free online CME. They have a CME tracker that is very useful to keep track of CME. You can even earn CME for your searches there.
Here is the URL www.medscape.com, register there and click on CME For Category 2, this is the fun part! You can read a book or an article or discuss a case with a friend and earch category II CME credit for that! Wondering how? All you need to do is make a copy of the face sheet or the 1st page of the article, write the date and amount of time spent and keep it. They only need your dairy logs or some other entry such as writing on the front page of the article, to prove that you spent the time, in case they audit you! It is quite easy! Web M & M from AHRQ is another easy and fun way to earn CME. Some of these cases are quite interesting. It is easier to do they via Medscape site since once your are logged in there, the CME tracker keeps track of your CME if you it through them! IF you do not need CME but want to learn from the free cases, go to Web M and M website below directly!
http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov/
12 credit hours must be in the areas of patient safety or risk management and can be either AMA PRA Category 1 or Category 2 Credits. For category 1, you can take any of the courses online. Medscape is the best place for easy and free online CME. They have a CME tracker that is very useful to keep track of CME. You can even earn CME for your searches there.
Here is the URL www.medscape.com, register there and click on CME For Category 2, this is the fun part! You can read a book or an article or discuss a case with a friend and earch category II CME credit for that! Wondering how? All you need to do is make a copy of the face sheet or the 1st page of the article, write the date and amount of time spent and keep it. They only need your dairy logs or some other entry such as writing on the front page of the article, to prove that you spent the time, in case they audit you! It is quite easy! Web M & M from AHRQ is another easy and fun way to earn CME. Some of these cases are quite interesting. It is easier to do they via Medscape site since once your are logged in there, the CME tracker keeps track of your CME if you it through them! IF you do not need CME but want to learn from the free cases, go to Web M and M website below directly!
http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov/
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