Education Requirements for Licensure

Education Requirements for Initial License

• What are the education requirements for initial licensure?

Continuing Medical Education (CME) for License Renewal

• What are the CME requirements to renew an active license?
• Is an active-retired licensee required to complete any continuing education requirements?
• Is a volunteer licensee required to complete continuing medical education requirements?
• If I change my licensure status to an inactive status, am I required to complete any continuing education requirements?
• Are there any exemptions for CME?
• Can I request a waiver for CME requirements?
• Do I need to report my CME requirements to renew my license?
• Where can I find CME courses to help meet requirements for licensure?
• What is an AOA Category 1-A (DO) and AMA PRA Category 1 (MD) credit?
• For license renewal, is there a requirement that a certain number or percentage of AOA 1A credits must come from in-person activities?
• What are Category 2 credits?
• What is acceptable documentation for Category 2 credits?
• How do I know if a CME activity satisfies the requirements for patient safety or risk management?
• If I have 12 Category 1 credit hours in patient safety or risk management topics, may I count these for both the Category 1 requirement and the patient safety/risk management requirement?
• Do the required opioids and child abuse recognition and reporting continuing education hours count toward the 12-hour patient safety and risk management requirement?
• Do the child abuse recognition credits count towards the fulfilment of the 100 CME credit requirement?
• Who will report my child abuse education credits to the Department of State?
• How can I confirm the Department of State received my child abuse continuing education credits?
• Is opioid continuing education required if I no longer have a DEA registration?
• Do the opioid continuing education requirements apply just for physicians or does it also apply to other clinicians as well?
• Does the opioids continuing education need to be Category 1 or Category 2?
• Are there specific opioid courses that will meet the required hours?
• Will PAMED's opioids CME programs help meet these opioids education requirements?
• How will the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania verify my compliance with the opioid education requirement?