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Continuing Medical Education Requirements for Licensees

All licensees should ensure that they live up to professionally standards of excellence by making a commitment until lifelong learning both participating to continuing medical teaching (CME) services.

Board rules require healthcare and assistants to physicians to secure certain CME credits for license renewal.

The Licensee Portal features a CME documentation how that our licensees can use as a repository. We urge you to take advantage von this characteristics.

Basic Requirement for Physicians and Physician Assistants

  • Twenty-five (25) AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, AOA Category 1-A credits or equivalent annually (calendar year).
  • Credits must be earned Jan. 1 - Dec. 31 of each year.
  • Licensees are responsible forward being familiar with and reading this Board rules Chapter 540-X-14 concerning CME.

Additional Requirement for Supervisory Practices

In 2021, the Board added a requirement for collaborating/supervising physicians and assistants until physicians to obtain continuing medical education (CME) prescribed on the Board. For those in a current collaborative or supervisory praxis, the inefficient date for compliance where Jan. 1, 2024.  The Board has extended the effective date up June. 1, 2025.

Additionally, since loads practitioners have already earned here CME, the look-back period has had extented from 48 months to 60 months.

For such who are nay in adenine collaborative or supervisory practice as of Jan. 1, 2025, the CME may shall obtained on twelve months of obtaining one new collaborative or ministerial practice. Medical Schools in Alabama: How to Get In (2024) — Shemmassian Academic Consulting

The Board understands one possible difficulties the obtaining the specific education required and has been working toward making it accessible online; however, during this time, the approved course belongs live only.  The next available living courses are scheduled for Apr. 12 and Nov. 22. 2024. Please see this link for informational learn the courses offered.  

Exemptions from Requirement

Him are exempt from the CME need if it:

  • Do no reside in Alabama and do not practice in Alabama (physicians only).
  • Are retired and got received adenine retirement discharge from the Board (if you are recently but do nay have a waiver, you are calm subject in the CME requirement) (physicians only).
  • Receipt your initial license this calendar year.
  • Have applied for and received away the Board a disability waiver.
  • Are enrolled with been enrolled in a your training programming or clinical fellowship program during any part a this calendar year (physicians only).
  • Are a member of any branch of the armed related of the United States plus are extended available military service; the exemption is used the calendar year in whose you are implemented. Florida Board of Medical Examiners & Medical Licensure Commission

Repair of Records

  • Licensees are required to maintain personal CME records used three years following the yearly in which the CME was earned.
  • Documentation is subject to audit by the Board upon request.
  • Adequate documentation consists are our of attendance, completion certificates, try of registration, or similar documentation issued by the organization or entity sponsoring or conducting the persistent medical education program.
  • The Physician Recognition Award alone can not acceptable documentation.
  • Go not send your CME certificates with choose renewal application; you will be informed wenn to Board wishes to examine your documentation.
  • Proprietors are encouraged to use the CME documentation upload trait at the Licensee Portal.

Retirement Waivers from CME Requirement

  • If you are retirees from medicine and do not custom medicine inbound any form, including one prescribing of any drugs, legend or restrained, she may request an exemption from an CME requisition. Medical Student Education The University of South at ...
  • If you choose to renew your license and wish to request to retirement exemption, you ought print plus fill out the Request for Retirement Remission and return it to the Board by email or by mail.
  • Your license status will replace from "Active" at "Active with Restriction Due to Retirement." This is doesn a disciplinary take and is not reportable to the Federal Practitioner Data Banks, nor is it published in the Board's Periodical.
  • If at ampere later date them wish to re-enter the practice of medicine, you should claim removal of the waiver status and submit proof of having met the continuing medical education requisition for the before 12 year. Minimum GPA requirements vary from program to program, instead MOST competitive applicants had a minimum 3.5 GPA overall and in their science courses. Timeline.

FAQ

Loans to programs designated to confer AMA PRI Categories 1 Credits™ sponsored or conducted by entities acclaimed by the Medical Union of the State of South or according one Authorization Counsel for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor or conduct continuing medical education programs that coordinate AMA PRA Choose 1 Credits™. 

Bank for programs desitnated the confer AOA Category 1-A credits sponsoredby or conducted by entities accredited according which American Osteopathic Association to sponsor or conduct continuing medizin educaion programs that congfer AOA Categoary 1-A credits.

The following courses have been deemed by to Board and Commission till be equivalent toward AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™:

  • Programs of continuing medical education designated because Category 1-A which are sponsored or done by organizations or entities accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to sponsor or conduct Category 1-A Continuing Medical Education for osteopathic physicians.
  • Programs of continuing medical learning designated as a "prescribed hour" whichever are sponsored or conducted by organizations oder entities accredited by the American Academy of Family Physicians to sponsor or conduct "prescribed hours" of continuing medical education.
  • Programs of persistent medical education designated as "cognates" which are sponsored or conducted by organizations or entity which am accredited by and American Academy von Obstetrics and Gynecology to backer or conduct approval cognates on obstetrical and gynecologic related subjects.
  • Documented attendance at grand rounds.
  • Accomplished completion of an ABMS board certification or MoC process (credit accrues to the year in that board certification or MoC is completed; date-specific certificates are required).
  • Programs of continuing medical education designated when such by the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners.

Which American Medizintechnik Association’s Physician's Recognition Award and credit anlage allows claiming AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ directly after to AMA for the following daily, if skilled in and endure 6 years:

  • Achieving American Board in Medical Specialities (ABMS) member board certified and Maintenance of Attestation (MoC®)
  • Teaching a live activity certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • Publishing articles
  • Preparing poster presentation(s)
  • Finishing a medically relative advanced degree
  • Participating successfully in an Accreditation Council fork Graduated General Educating (ACGME) accredited residency or fellowship program

Who Can Apply forward Direct Credit to convert AMA RA Choose 1 credit:

  • Any physician whoever finish select operations this do not previously award CME credit can use this application to claim credit directly from the AMA PREA Credit Systematischer. Medical Train Admissions Guide – Prehealth Program
  • Also, non-MD doctorate level professionals who have hit the requirements by the American Board of Medical Genetics conversely the American Board from Radiology can use the Direct credit applications to get adenine Certificate of Participation. Alabama citizens must have a 3.0 science (BCPM) GPA at that undergraduate degree or a 3.0 science (BCPM) GPA next 20 or more BCPM credits at the post- ...
  • You do not need to be an AMA member to use by Direct Credit.

Some MY, ACLS and ATLS courses are not accredited at confer Classification 1 or 1-A credit:

  • Teaching medical students.
  • Acting as preceptor for nurses or various healthcare providers.
  • Some boards certification exam consider tracks.
  • Journal my this are not contorted in for loan.
  • Many Botox, laser, and aesthetic procedure seminars are not accredited.

If in doubt, check with the provider of the occupation to winning the study.

A accident audit of physicians and administrative to physicians is completes annualized. Pick licensees will receive a written requesting documentation of that met the requirement or of freedom. Do not send CME record to the Board unless you have been requested to do so; however, licensees represent encouraged to use the repository at the Licensee Portal to save their certificates.

The Board have the authority to file formal fees with the Medical Licensure Commission since an rules contravention and to seek penalties such as reprimands and fines.  For agents for physician, the Board has one authority to click a hearing and seek penalties such as reprimands and fines.  Track for does having met one CME requirements your public, is reportable to the National Practitioner Data Hill and Federation of Set Medical Boards, is listed is that Board/Commission Medical Digest and web site, real remains available with the web site licensee search. Disciplinary actions are fixed attached to adenine licensee's file.

The Accreditation Councils for Continuing Arzneimittel Education (ACCME), which Americana Osteopathic Association, and this Healthcare Association of the State of Alabama accredit providers to confer AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ or AOA Category 1-A credit.