Maintain Your Certification

Continuing Medical Education (CME) Diplomates must obtain a minimum of 70 CME credits from any combination of accepted credit types during each two-year period if not meeting the Lifelong Learning requirement in another way. Accepted credits for ABPath are American Medical Association (AMA) PRA Category 1 CME credits and/or American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Category 1A CME credits. Diplomates may claim AMA Category 1 CME credits for certain activities from the American Medical Association (AMA), including successfully completing an ABMS member board certification. Diplomates must apply directly to the AMA and provide documentation. Information and the AMA’s Direct Credit Application can be found on the AMA’s website. Eighty percent of required CME must be directly related to the diplomate’s scope of practice. The remainder may be in areas of general relevance to medicine (e.g., ethics, practice management, informatics, etc.) The ABPath reserves the right to audit a diplomate’s CME data and require copies of CME certificates. Diplomates should retain documentation of CME activities for at least three years

For more information, please visit https://abpath.org/ 

To have your completion of an ABPath approved activity transmitted to the board, please add your Date of Birth and Board/Board ID number to your UPMC CCEHS CME profile. Instructions can be found here.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Credits cannot be awarded retroactively. For this reason, if you were not awarded CME credit or your CCE account, http://cce.upmc.com, did not identify you as an ABP diplomate and include your Date of Birth (DOB) and Board ID, we are unable to transfer your credits