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Recently I applied for CME from the AMA by virtue of doing annual (weekly, really) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) through the ABR. Each week, I answer two online learning activity (OLA) questions to maintain ABR board certification.
I paid $30 to the AMA, gave them a date for 2021 (I chose it arbitrarily) and said I was doing MOC and maintaining board certification, and they gave me a nice shiny CME certificate for 60 Category 1 credit hours for 2021. I am unsure if you can do this forever/annually, but thought it might help someone.
If it does work every year, then simply doing OLA through the ABR should be all the CME you ever need for both state licensure requirements as well as ongoing ABR CME requirements. In other words, and I am not sure ABR has realized this, the ABR CME requirements are met simply by being compliant with MOC (SA-CMEs already gone) ... you don't need other CMEs (except those weird domestic violence, opioid, etc, CMEs some states have... can't help you there!)
Here is the AMA link (click "Claim Direct Credit"). Also of note, you get 10 CMEs for every article you publish; the AMA will give you certificates for that too (just send them a DOI!).
Happy Easter.
I paid $30 to the AMA, gave them a date for 2021 (I chose it arbitrarily) and said I was doing MOC and maintaining board certification, and they gave me a nice shiny CME certificate for 60 Category 1 credit hours for 2021. I am unsure if you can do this forever/annually, but thought it might help someone.
If it does work every year, then simply doing OLA through the ABR should be all the CME you ever need for both state licensure requirements as well as ongoing ABR CME requirements. In other words, and I am not sure ABR has realized this, the ABR CME requirements are met simply by being compliant with MOC (SA-CMEs already gone) ... you don't need other CMEs (except those weird domestic violence, opioid, etc, CMEs some states have... can't help you there!)
Here is the AMA link (click "Claim Direct Credit"). Also of note, you get 10 CMEs for every article you publish; the AMA will give you certificates for that too (just send them a DOI!).
Happy Easter.