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CME credits
hi prab,
can u plz enlighten me regarding CME credits. i understand that many states require CME for medical professionals to maintain their licenses. in what all ways can one earn CME credits? is that applicable during residency as well ?
thanks
can u plz enlighten me regarding CME credits. i understand that many states require CME for medical professionals to maintain their licenses. in what all ways can one earn CME credits? is that applicable during residency as well ?
thanks
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CME credits are required to renew your medical license after residency. During residency, you are already in training, so no need for CME. There are two categories of CME, category I and Category II. For category I, you can attend conferences, take online CME course of which there are a lot of free ones on the internet, or in many medical journals, you can fill out the forms for cme after reading an article. The easiest and cheapest would be to register on medscape for free and do their free cme courses. It also has a cme tracker that is very useful. If you get cme from other sources, you can enter them on medscape cme tracker and the ones you do there are automatically tracked. Depending on your state, you may need 100-200 cme credits every 2 years. Some of these credits need to be category I and the rest category II. For category II, it is simple since it is self directed. You can read an article and claim category 2 cme on that on your own. All you need to document is the date you read and the title of the article on a log book or the online cme tracker. Or you can copy the first page of that article, write the date you read it and claim cme. It is not difficult to get 100 or so credits in 2 years. I just renewed my MD license and needed 100 cme. I attended board review after residency and got 25 credits, took some online cme in between and attended a few other conferences during the last year and half and got all my cme. You can also go to web M and M at http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov/, do the cases and get cme. It is also patient safety related so you can claim it under risk management credit. Some states require some cme in risk management. During residency, you do not need all that. All the best.
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Medical research and study online
Using non-designated enduring materials
Teaching of medical or healthcare professionals
Reading authoritative medical literature
Attendance at conferences, lectures, and seminars not designated for Category 1 credit
Definition from the AMA Policies, Procedures and Criteria for the Physicians Recognition Award (PRA) Issued January 1993; Updated June 1996. Also check the following url
below
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2797.html
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