Diplomates will be sent an email each year reminding them to file a CME Declaration and Recording Form for the purpose of tracking and recording their CME credits. A completed CME Declaration and Recording Form is due, along with the $30 recording fee, in the Executive Office by December 31st of each year.
CME Recording Form - Use this form to record CME credits earned January 1 through December 31.
Failure to submit a CME Declaration and Recording Form on or before the submission deadline will result in an additional $25 late fee for the form to be accepted. This late fee is in addition to the $30 annual CME recording fee (i.e., a total of $55 to record CME credits for each annual deadline that is not met).
CME Requirements - Diplomates
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50 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM (during 10-year cycle) for Diplomates enrolled in the MOCP before April 29, 2009. Following successful completion of the MOCP examination, 150 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM will be required.
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150 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM (during 10-year cycle) for Diplomates enrolled in the MOCP in on or after April 29, 2009.
The AANEM offers a number of online CME opportunities to meet the Category 1 requirements.
The ABEM accepts the American Medical Association’s (AMA) definition of category 1 CME credit as follows:
CME consists of educational activities that serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession. The content of CME is that body of knowledge and skills generally recognized and accepted by the profession as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision of health care to the public.
Formal Education Hours – Certificate of Recognition Holders
Certificate of recognition holders need to complete formal education hours. AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM are not required, but can be used for formal education hours. Formal education hours are defined as any course, seminar, meeting, or other formal educational activity which requires physician attendance and is sponsored by a hospital, medical school, medical association or medical specialty society. Books, web-based education, journal articles, CD/ DVDs, etc., that include questions and answers that allow the physician to evaluate the knowledge learned from reviewing the material are also permissible formal education hours. AANEM offers several online CME opportunities. Journal CME is also a good source of formal education credits. It is offered through Muscle & Nerve, Neurology, PM&R, and other medical journals. Formal education credits do not have to be obtained in the United States.
Excerpted from The Physician’s Recognition Award–Information Booklet,
© The American Medical Association, 2000.