CME

Continuing Medical Education

Continuing Education (EducationAdults, Credentialism) for physicians (MD, HealthCare), generally to maintain state licensing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuing_medical_education

There is Category1 and Category2. It sounds like states will often set a minimum total number of credits across categories, plus set a minimum number of credits that are Category1. Category2 is "SelfDirected".

• in addition some states have extra requirements like "10 of those credits must be in Risk Management of patient safety".

AMA http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/education-careers/continuing-medical-education/frequently-asked-questions.shtml |info Requirements (Category1 only?) by state: http://cme.medscape.com/public/staterequirements

some players

• Audio Digest

• UpToDate

• MDConsult

• MedScape

• lots of others

A lot of CME gets subsidized by Phar Ma, but abuses have numbered the days of that model.