Easy ways to get CME credits?

[stanrocks]

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Can anyone provide any good ways to accrue CME credits that you can do online and for not much scratch?

Emedicine offers CME credits but you have to pay for them. Its a few hundred for your yearly licensure requirement. Anything else like this out there?

Thanks! 🙂

 

[Annette]

Medscape has free cme. Also, if you subscribe to Uptodate, you can also get free CME from there.

 

[stanrocks]

Thanks Annette! Medscape looks particularly good and you can’t beat free! Anyone have any other good ways to get CME? It doesn't have to be online, just that you don't have to travel for a conference in Aruba, 'cause that would be terrible! 😉

Very funny though that the moderator erased the link I put in to emedicine! What, if you put in a link to a news article you’re advertising for the New York Times? 😛

I was just saving someone the extra 10 seconds it takes through Google, sheesh!

 

[cali-ob]

I watched a cme course on Discovery Health channel a few saturdays ago (not because I need cme yet it was just interesting). I had no idea it was for CME, I just found out as I watched. I guess you can go the discovery channel website for more info. I want to say it's free??? could be wrong though so don't get your hopes up.

 

[doctor_doctor]

what do we do with CME credit by the way?.....i hope to start residency this yr, and have been doing research this past yr.....attended grand rounds and stuff and accumulated some CME credits.....should i make print outs and save the certificate and stuff or r they only for retired docs?

 

[Winged Scapula]

Thanks Annette! Medscape looks particularly good and you can’t beat free! Anyone have any other good ways to get CME? It doesn't have to be online, just that you don't have to travel for a conference in Aruba, 'cause that would be terrible! 😉

Very funny though that the moderator erased the link I put in to emedicine! What, if you put in a link to a news article you’re advertising for the New York Times? 😛

I was just saving someone the extra 10 seconds it takes through Google, sheesh!

It was more the context.

Given the experience of the SDN staff, when a new user registers and their very first post contains an ad, a link, etc. almost always that person is a spammer.

Occasionally a mistake is made when someone, such as yourself, innocently posts something like this.

 

[stanrocks]

what do we do with CME credit by the way?.....i hope to start residency this yr, and have been doing research this past yr.....attended grand rounds and stuff and accumulated some CME credits.....should i make print outs and save the certificate and stuff or r they only for retired docs?

A certain amount of CME is required for renewing your license. It serves no other purpose than your edumification in patient care.. you know, totally unimportant stuff!

If you're in residency though you get a certain amount of "automatic" CME, so generally you don't have to worry about it until you're out.

I'm recently out of residency which is why I posed the question. I'm just not big on conferences and so forth- I prefer something I can do on my own. I'm also a) kinda cheap, and b) don't want to shut down my practice to do the CME activity. For a lot of people though its more of a vacation, they go somewhere and attend the conference, play some golf, etc etc

 

[buckley]

what do we do with CME credit by the way?.....i hope to start residency this yr, and have been doing research this past yr.....attended grand rounds and stuff and accumulated some CME credits.....should i make print outs and save the certificate and stuff or r they only for retired docs?

bump!

 

[brc12]

I don't know how they count it in other states, but in california for example, passing the boards counts as an automatic 100 hours of CME which will cover you for the first several years out of residency.

 

[kenfused]

YEs, I think that during residency you do not need CME (at least in CA).
After that Medscape is really easy and free too.
There are tons of journals with CME out there, depending on your specialty of interest