how do you guys keep track of CE certificates?

[Amphetamine Salts]

does anyone actually download all their certificates to their computer in the event of an audit? i know on NABP the CPE monitor lists all your ACPE approved certificates, so if you get audited can you just pull up this and you will be fine? thanks

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[RxPreceptor]

Electronic records of CE statements; I have a transcript online with the CE providers i use.
Pharmacists' Letter has an organizer tool to use past renewal periods (I use 2 different CE providers, have transcripts of everything)

 

[Amphetamine Salts]

Electronic records of CE statements; I have a transcript online with the CE providers i use.
Pharmacists' Letter has an organizer tool to use past renewal periods (I use 2 different CE providers, have transcripts of everything)

i'm planning to get a pharmacist's letter subscription anyway. will they automatically keep track of my certificates for me in case i get audited?

also, the gold plan $140/yr is good enough if i have 0 live CE requirements?

 

[RxPreceptor]

See if your employer provides PL as a benefit first
You can manually enter CE from other sources too using the PL CE organizer tool

Yes, the tool shows past renewal periods with CEs entered, dates, course #s, etc.

 

[Amphetamine Salts]

See if your employer provides PL as a benefit first
You can manually enter CE from other sources too using the PL CE organizer tool

Yes, the tool shows past renewal periods with CEs entered, dates, course #s, etc.

my employer does not offer it. which plan did you purchase and do you have live CE requirements?

 

[RxPreceptor]

PL provided by employer; I use RxSchool for live CEs ($99/year - one can easily get a renewal period done in a few months of just live CEs - offer around 3-4 per week, count as 2 hours a piece).

 

[Ninetails]

Check your Board of Pharmacy's FAQ ot the statutes and regulations. How you must maintain your records of CE are listed there.

My BOP does not allow NABP list printouts to qualify. You must either print and store them (for a required number of years) or save the pdfs of the certificates (which can be done at NABP) in a digital and accessible form.

This is no doubt to streamline audits and prevent people from wasting the auditors time with "forgotten passwords" and so forth. I maintain both (in the event my laptop breaks I have physical copies to show).

 

[Sparda29]

I just wish that live CEs weren't required. I'd rather just go through Powerpark one day every 3 years instead of having to listen into phone calls, wait for a damn CE code, etc.

 

[Sabril]

i'm planning to get a pharmacist's letter subscription anyway. will they automatically keep track of my certificates for me in case i get audited?

also, the gold plan $140/yr is good enough if i have 0 live CE requirements?

you don't need live CEs in your state? or are you already done with the live CE requirements?

I think PL is a great resource but probably not the most economical way to meet the CE requirement especially the non-live ones. At least in my state, I can get them all done for about half of PL's cost.

 

[Digsbe]

I just wish that live CEs weren't required. I'd rather just go through Powerpark one day every 3 years instead of having to listen into phone calls, wait for a damn CE code, etc.

I subscribe to freece.com. its $80 a year and you get live CE via webinars that only require you to click in to the presentation like twice when they ask a poll question. You dont have to pass a competency quiz and its all ACPE accredited. Live CE is a joke, I learn far more doing a module with a competency quiz at the end.

 

[owlegrad]

PL provided by employer; I use RxSchool for live CEs ($99/year - one can easily get a renewal period done in a few months of just live CEs - offer around 3-4 per week, count as 2 hours a piece).

I also use RxSchool for live, although I wait for it to go on sale for I think $89. I also try to get it so that I can get two renewals worth of CE credit (6 months on one side of the renewal, 6 months on the other) vs just maintaining a subscription every year.

Lately I have been getting some free live CE through being a preceptor though so maybe I will be able to skip the RxSchool subscription in the future.

 

[Dred Pirate]

my work gives me the opportunity to have 20 hours live CE per year presented by various rph's. (plus any conference I go to) - I haven't paid out of pocket ever for a CE. But to keep track - I print them off as I do them and keep in a folder - I have 12 years worth of files in my file cabinet at work