CME: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit for Preparing and Teaching Medical Students

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Medical Education recently announced the joint initiative, Learning from Teaching, awarding AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for the learning associated with preparing for and teaching medical students and residents. Previously able to claim AMA PRA Category 2 Credit™ for such activities, part-time and other faculty members may now claim AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for their continuing professional development mediated by accredited CME providers affiliated with accredited UME and/or GME entities. As reported by Meetings.net, "These new credits are only to be certified by academic teaching centers (i.e., medical school UME and GME and hospital centers that offer GME), and they are predicated on a collaborative process between the CME offices at those institutions and their UME/GME offices. Teacher-learners must complete an application for credit and/or special planning notes that document typical Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education planning criteria, and they must document the outcomes of their learning-through-teaching experience." The Meetings.net article, written by Steve Passing, gives a great explanation and detailed overview of the new program and its requirements. Below is various portions of his article. "According to the AAMC, the purpose of Learning from Teaching initiatives is to "formally recognize and document the learning a...
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