What can you tell me about Continuing Medical Education?

I have applied for a job managing a CME program. I am well qualified in terms of planning events and arranging logistics and technology, and I have lots of computer skills that will apply to the data management and record keeping portions of the job.

What I don’t know is what makes one educational lecture worthy of CME credit and another not. I’ve seen promotional materials for packaged lectures that state they count as CME, which suggests that there is some governing body that makes such a judgement, either at a state or national level, or both. And I know that our doctors (I already work in the hospital where this position has opened up) do regular peer reviews on their cases which also count as CME. And I’m reasonably sure no one is subbmitting these case reviews to an outside governing body on a regular basis, so there must be some other route to getting approval for CMEs than by submitting a synopsis of a lecture.

Would I myself be the judge (or a judge) of whether something is “credit worthy”?

Oh, yes, and what questions am I failing to ask?

Unless you’re a doctor, chances are no, you wouldn’t be judging whether something is credit-worthy.

My mother does a lot of CME, but she’s on the faculty of USC’s Medical School, as well as in a complicated array of professional societies I can’t keep track of. I’m sure there’s some sort of association that determines what get credit and what doesn’t, but I’ve never really discussed the details of that with her. Perhaps one of the doctor posters could help…

one bump in the hopes someone can help me out here. I have a first interview for this job on Wednesday.

I have NO knowledge about CME other then hearing a blurb on ReachMD XM160 about possibly being able to receive CME credits for listening to it. Just thought I’d mention that.