Learning associated with teaching encourages your own professional development as a medical educator.
You can earn American Medical Association (AMA) PRA Category 1 Credit by engaging in new learning intended to make you a better presenter and then applying your new learning to teaching medical students, residents and fellows. CME credit recognizes how your learning changed your teaching.
Here is the basic principle of learning associated with presenting:
Undertake new learning associated with making you a better preceptor.
This may include acquiring new factual information, communication skills or teaching techniques. You can also learn how to make better slides or how to mentor.
Apply your new learning by teaching medical students, residents or fellows as a presenter.
You will be awarded 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits for every hour of teaching time.
The process applies only to presenting at grand rounds or conferences.
Learning must be paired with teaching; you must engage in some new learning that is applied to teaching.
If you teach the same content on more than one occasion – even if the content is presented to a different audience – you may claim credit only once. However, if you undertake new learning – even on a previous topic – that becomes a new learning-teaching combination eligible for credit.
We expect that the educational material you use will have been developed independently of any ACCME-defined commercial interest. You can ensure this by using:
Complete and submit the Speaker Credit Form. CME will calculate the amount of credit you will be awarded by doubling the teaching time and then rounding to the nearest quarter-hour. Credit will appear in your CME transcript.
Please contact us by email at cme@evms.edu or by phone at 757.446.6140 if you have any questions or requests.
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