Nontraditional grad here; how do adcoms view CME credits? For my line of work, I am required to get 20 hours of CME credits a year, and I am looking forward to expanding my knowledge base as I apply to medical schools. How do adcoms look at this?
Taking CME courses...how do admissions committee's view this?
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They probably glance at it, say "cool", and move on.
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It is the use of your license that may have some effect, not the CME required to maintain it.
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Most doctors view CME as a necessary evil -- something required to maintain a license and a refresher for things they ideally already learned in residency. It's not the right approach for a first pass at new material for which you have no foundation. So it shouldn't make you more marketable for med school, which will be all about getting the foundation necessary to make things like CME marginally useful.
Also at the moment doctors in many specialties are at war with their boards for imposing a lot of these CME, quality initiatives and MOC requirements on them as money making ventures that otherwise detract from doctors' time used more productively, so a lot of adcom members won't have purely positive views of CME. It is viewed as window dressing that lets boards bilk doctors out of hefty fees and time and imposes lots of paperwork so the boards can assure the public that by imposing these make-work requirements (of variable value), the public is somehow now protected from incompetence.
Also at the moment doctors in many specialties are at war with their boards for imposing a lot of these CME, quality initiatives and MOC requirements on them as money making ventures that otherwise detract from doctors' time used more productively, so a lot of adcom members won't have purely positive views of CME. It is viewed as window dressing that lets boards bilk doctors out of hefty fees and time and imposes lots of paperwork so the boards can assure the public that by imposing these make-work requirements (of variable value), the public is somehow now protected from incompetence.
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That sums it up for me.
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No that's because CME courses don't mean much to someone who hasn't already graduated medical school... They will help you in medical school about as much as the surgeon I shadowed walking me through how he does a cholecystectomy...
From most of your threads here it seems like you are trying to get brownie points for random little things and convince us that you are "better" than the average applicant for it. Sorry but it doesn't work like that.
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Not buying the whole "see one, do one, teach one" mantra?
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Oh well I think I just need a little more practice, trying to do my first one the patients anatomy was all screwed up so I converted to an open technique, followed by an accidental clipping of the common hepatic artery. I blame the scrub tech...
So more like see one, practice two, teach one kind of thing. That should do it. I should open my own surgical clinic, take the whole pre-med clinic to the next level.
