13. Continuing Medical Education
Pursuant to the provisions of Title 32 Section 3280 of the Maine Revised Statutes, as amended in 1979, the Board of Registration in Medicine herewith establishes the following rules and regulations for a course or system of continuing medical education required for reregistration in the year 1982 and all subsequent biennial reregistrations with this Board.
A. Requirements
1. Beginning January l, 1980, each physician licensed by this Board who is actively practicing medicine and surgery shall complete each calendar year, a minimum of fifty (50) credit hours of continuing medical education.
a. At least twenty (20) hours must be in Category 1 (as defined in Subsection (B)(1)
b. The total fifty (50) hours may be in Category 1
c. No more than thirty (30) credit hours may be in Category 2 (as defined in Sub-section (B)(2)
B. Definitions of Categories
1. Category 1 activities are those planned CME programs sponsored or co-sponsored by an organization or institution accredited by the AMA Council on Medical Education, the National Liaison Committee on Continuing Medical Education, or the Committee on Continuing Medical Education of the Maine Medical Association.
a. All Category 1 CME programs will be properly identified as such by the approved sponsoring or co-sponsoring organization.
b. one credit hour may be claimed for each clock hour of participation.
2. Category 2 activities include CME programs with non-accredited sponsorship, medical teaching, papers, publications, books, presentations or exhibits non-supervised individual CME activities, staff meetings and other meritorious learning experiences.
a. CME programs with non-accredited sponsorship are those medical meetings and CME programs not within the definition of Category 1; VALUE one credit for each hour of participation.
b. Medical teaching includes teaching of medical students interns, residents, practicing physicians and allied health professionals; VALUE one credit for each hour of participation.
c. Papers, publications, books, as described below are creditable. Credit may be claimed only for the first time the materials are presented and should be claimed as of the date materials were presented or published. VALUE: Ten (10) credits for each presentation or publication.
i. A paper published in a recognized medical journal;
ii. Each chapter of a book that is authored and published;
iii. Presentations or exhibits offered to a professional audience including allied health professionals;
d. Non-Supervised Individual CME Activities; VALUE: One credit for each hour of participation.
i. Self-instruction such as the reading of medical publications, the use of audio tapes, videotapes, slides, programmed instructions or computer-assisted instruction;
ii. Self-assessment programs;
iii. Peer review activities, e.g. medical audit, utilization review, participation in PSRO
iv. Specialty board preparation.
e. Other Meritorious Learning Experiences as individually approved by the Board.
3. The requirements of the following programs, if completed during the two calendar years preceding the year of registration, may be considered as equivalent to the requirements listed in Section B (1) and (2) above:
a. Physician's Recognition Award
b. Certification by a Specialty Board within the two calendar year preceding the year of registration.
c. Re-certification by a Specialty Board within the two calendar years preceding the year of registration
d. Continuing membership in the American Academy of Family Practitioners
e. Continuing Professional Development Program of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
f. Such other programs as may be developed and approved by, the Board of Registration in Medicine.
4. Each full year of post-graduate training in one of the following programs may be claimed as fifty (50) hours of Category 1 credits:
a. Internship or Residency
b. Fellowship
c. Medically related degree.
C. Evidence of Completion
1. In-state Registrants.
The reregistration application of in-state physicians for the year 1982 and for every even-numbered year thereafter shall include a statement certifying that the required number of CME hours have been completed and reported to the Board. On or before January 31, 1982 and every even-numbered year thereafter physicians licensed by this Board who are actively practicing medicine in the State of Maine shall submit to the Board of Registration in Medicine on a form provided by the Boards evidence of having completed one hundred (100) hours of CME as described in Section 4 (B) of these rules.
2. Out-of-state Registrants.
The reregistration application of out-of-state physicians for the year 1982 and for every even-numbered year thereafter shall include a statement certifying that the required number of CME hours have been completed and have been or will be reported to the Board. On or before January 31, 1983 and every odd-numbered year thereafter physicians actively practicing medicine in a state other than the State of Maine shall submit to the Board of Registration in Medicine, evidence of having completed at least one hundred (100) hours of CME as described in Section 4 (B) of these rules.
D. Exceptions/Waivers to CME Requirements
1. The Board, at its discretion, may grant an extension of time or other waiver to a licensee who because of prolonged illness or other extenuating circumstances has been unable to meet the requirements of CME.
2. Physicians who are not actively practicing medicine may be excused from completing CME requirements for reregistration by submitting to the Board of Registration in Medicine an affidavit certifying that he/she will render no medical services during the term of the reregistration biennium.
3. Physicians who become licensed for the first time in the State of Maine in the course of a calendar year will not be required to fulfill the requirements for that calendar year.
4. Physicians whose licenses are issued between January 1 and June 30 of any even-numbered year shall not be required to submit the re-registration fee for the biennium beginning July 1 of that year.
AUTHORITY: 32 MRSA Sec. 3269 (7)(10) Sec. 3280
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 26, 1974
AMENDED: August 11, 1975
November 16, 1977
February 2, 1980
August 28, 1985 - Sec. 6 (C)&(I)
November 3, 1988 - Sec. 6 a 7 (Repealed)
02 DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL AND FINANCIAL REGULATION
373 BOARD OF LICENSURE IN MEDICINE
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