State Required CME

The Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine - License Renewal CME Requirements

As part of the renewal process, physicians licensed in the state of Pennsylvania must satisfy 100 total credits of CME in the two-year license cycle (license cycles ending on Dec. 31 of each even year). Below are specific requirements that must be completed as a portion of the total 100 credits continuing education required for biennial renewal.

  • 20 credits must be in AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ designated activities
  • 2 credits of continuing education in pain management, identification of addiction or the practices of prescribing or dispensing of opioids – Act 124
  • 2 credits required from Board-approved continuing education in child abuse recognition and reporting requirements - Act 31
  • 12 credits required in activities related to patient safety or risk management and may be completed in either Category 1 or 2
  • The remaining credits shall be completed in either Category 1 or Category 2 approved CME activities

New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners - License Renewal CME Requirements

As part of the renewal process, physicians licensed in the state of New Jersey must satisfy 100 total credits of CME in the two-year license cycle. Below are specific requirements that must be completed as a portion of the total 100 credits continuing education required for biennial renewal.

  • 40 credits must be in AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ designated activities
  • 2 credits of continuing education in End-of-Life Care (license renewal starting in 2015 and every renewal thereafter)
  • 1 credits of continuing education in pain management, identification of addiction or the practices of prescribing or dispensing of opioids (license renewal starting in 2019 and every renewal thereafter)
  • The remaining 60 credits shall be completed in either Category 1 or Category 2 approved CME activities 
  • One-Time Cultural Competency Requirement - Physicians licensed in New Jersey are required to complete 6 hours of Cultural Competency in order to meet the Board Requirements. (If licensed after March 24, 2005 these credits can be included in the 100 credit requirement for renewal) There are 6 specific topics that must be covered in the accredited cultural competency CME:
    1.  A context for the training, common definitions of cultural competence, race, ethnicity and culture and tools for self-assessment
    2.  An appreciation for the traditions and beliefs of diverse patient populations, at multiple levels- as individuals, in families and as part of a larger   community.
    3. An understanding of the impact that stereotyping can have on medical decision making.
    4. Strategies for recognizing patterns of health care disparities and eliminating factors influencing them.
    5. Approaches to enhance cross-cultural skills, such as those relating to history-taking, problem solving and promoting patient compliance.
    6. Techniques to deal with language barriers and other communication needs, including working with interpreters.

Delaware Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline - License Renewal CME Requirements

As part of the renewal process, physicians licensed in the state of Delaware must satisfy 40 total credits of Category 1 courses approved by the American Medical Association (AMA) or equivalent courses approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA).

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How physicians and other healthcare providers can meet the requirements with quality FREE CME/CE:
Search for topics on OPIOID, CHILD ABUSE, or SAFETY at https://upenn.cloud-cme.com/default.aspx

SPECIFIC ACCREDITED Resources available with a direct link:

*Opioid Education (NEW): 2 CME/CE Credits required per license period (Pennsylvania)
   1 CME/CE Credits required per license period (New Jersey)
   Not required for Delaware

FREE ONLINE OPTIONS (NOTE specific credits for each option):

  1. Saving Lives in the Opioid Crisis: Health System Initiatives to Mitigate Opioid Risk
    Developed from the proceedings of the DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ANESTHESIOLOGY AND CRITICAL CARE held on October 24, 2018
         1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
  2. Penn Medicine Opioid Stewardship: Balancing Pain Management with Public Health
    1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ (Available through Knowledge Link to Penn employees only)
  3.  PDMP 7 Online Modules - Evidence-Based Prescribing: Tools you can use to fight the opioid epidemic
    Each of the modules - 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (up to 7 Credits total)
  4. www.pamedsoc.org/opioidscme 6 web-based activities
    Up to 5.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (5 modules at 1 Credit each and 1 module 0.5)

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*Child Abuse: 2 CME/CE Credits required per license period
     Not required for Delaware or New Jersey

FREE ONLINE EDUCATION RECOMMENDED

  1. Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse: Mandated and Permissive Reporting in Pennsylvania Online Training
    3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
  2. Other providers can be found here: http://www.keepkidssafe.pa.gov/resources/training/index.htm
    Click on the list of additional approved courses (there may be costs associated with some of these)
  3. PA Family Support Alliance: https://www.pa-fsa.org/Calendar/view_645/detail/cid_645/2045
    Please log-in or create an account on the external site

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*Patient Safety: 12 CME/CE Credits required per license period
         Not required for Delaware or New Jersey

LIVE OPTIONS

Many of our departmental Regularly Scheduled Series such as Case and Quality Conferences, Morbidity and Mortality Series and Tumor Boards as well as portions of conferences and symposia also carry the Patient Safety Designation, for details visit our website at https://upenn.cloud-cme.com/  and search for SAFETY

ONLINE OPTIONS

Penn Medicine CME/CE designates a large number of FREE online CME-accredited and searchable educational activities for Patient Safety as part of Primary Care Best Practices Online Curriculum

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*End-of-Life-Care: 2 CME/CE Credits required per license period (New Jersey)
      Not Required for Delaware or Pennsylvania

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