Continuing Medical Education

CME Accrediting Agencies

In the case of Navy Reserve Medical Department Officers (Nurse Corps, Medical Corps, Dental Corps, and Medical Service Corps) and the Hospital Corps CME will only be accepted from the following accrediting agencies:
a. Nurse Corps: Any course recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA) Category 1 credit, or the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE).
b. Medical Corps: Any course awarded the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA) Category 1 or American Osteopathic Association Category 1a credit.
c. Dental Corps and Dental Hygienists: Any course awarded by the American Dental Association (ADA) Continuing Education Recognition Program (CERP) Category 1 Credit.
d. Medical Service Corps:
1. Occupational Therapists: Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education.
2. Clinical Psychologists: American Psychological Associations Commission of Accreditation.
3. Dietitians: American Dietetic Association.
4. Optometrists: American Optometric Association.
5. Audiology: American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, American Academy of Audiology.
6. Physical Therapists: Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapists.
7. Pharmacist: Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE).
8. Social Work: National Association for Social Workers.
9. Podiatry: American Board of Podiatric Medicine and American Board of Lower Extremity Surgery, American Board of Podiatric Surgery.
10. Physician Assistants (PA): Any course recognized by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
11. Hospital Corps: Varies based on specialty.

CME Point Allowance calculation

Per DoD 1215.07, “The instruction will last at least 4 hours and will be performed in a non-pay status”. Completed qualifying CME submitted for approval of retirement points, at the rate of one (1) point/unit per four (4) contiguous/consecutive hours of instruction. Courses which contain less than four hours of instruction are not eligible for retirement point credit.
Members may receive a maximum of two (2) retirement points for any combination of activities in any calendar day. Courses that span over more than one day equaling more than 8 hours need to be annotated for the entire time on the certificate or by transcript in order to receive all credit requested.
A person performing active service (AT, ADT, ADOS, CANREC, or Active Component) may not receive retirement points for other activities concurrently.

College transcripts eligibility for CME credit

Official or unofficial (student issued) transcripts from an accredited college or university are authorized for point capture. Courses must pertain to a healthcare profession, and relate to the member’s corps specialty. Formal education completed and deemed as the qualified requirement for entry commissioning into a Corps is not included.

Members will be awarded 12 CME hours per one (1) college credit. Therefore 1 college credit hour will award 3 NP drill points (1 credit hour = 12 CME hours = 3 NP drill points). Transcripts must document semester start and end dates and contain official school Registrar Office information and school logo.

Maximum number of retirement points from CME

All drilling Reservists are eligible to obtain up to 35 retirement points from CME per anniversary year. All non-drilling IRR members are eligible to receive up to 20 points from CME per anniversary year. Points must be submitted for capture before the end of the anniversary year to be credited. Points will be credited up to 3 previous years.

Submitting CME certificates and/or transcripts for retirement Point Credit

All drilling Reservists to include Selected Reserve (SELRES) and/or Voluntary Training Unit (VTU) must submit their CME certificates and/or transcripts and a NAVPERS 1336/3, Special Request/Authorization (Note 1) to their Commanding Officer or designated representative requesting credit for the applicable CME courses.
NOTE 1 – Required wording for NAVPERS 1336/3, Special Request/Authorization is:

Block 12 REASON FOR REQUEST:

Respectfully request permission to enroll in and receive retirement points for voluntary completion of Continuing Medical Education (Course Name and Credentialing Authority), in non-pay status IAW COMNAVRESFOR NORFOLK VA 191101Z AUG 14.

Once the request is approved, the unit or Navy Reserve Activity (NRA) will verify the certificates and/or transcripts is covered by one of the credentialing agencies and the member was not performing Inactive or Active Service at the time of the course completion and have the member sign a NAVPERS 1070-613 (Rev 08-12), Administrative Remarks (Note 2).
NOTE 2 – Required wording for NAVPERS 1070/613, Administrative Remarks is:

SUBJECT: NON-PAY RETIREMENT POINTS FOR VOLUNTARY COMPLETION OF CONTUINUING MEDICAL EDUCAITON.
COMMENTS: DATE_____________: I UNDERSTAND THAT I MAY NOT RECEIVE RETIREMENT POINTS FOR CONCURRENT ACTIVITES. I CANNOT BE AWARDED RETIREMENT POINTS FOR CORRFESPONDENCE COURSES COMPLETED WHILE IN AN ACTIVE OR INACTIVE DUTY STATUS, FOR WHICH RETIREMENT POINT CREDIT IS AWARDED, SUCH AS INACTIVE DUTY TRAINING, INACTIVE DUTY TRAINING TRAVEL, INACTIVE DUTY, ADDITIONAL TRAINING PERIOD, ADDITIONAL FLYING AND FLIGHT TRAINING PERIOD, READINESS MANAGEMENT PERIOD, ANNUAL TRAINING, ACTIVE DUTY FOR TRAINING, ACTIVE DUTY FOR SPECIAL WORK, DEFINITE RECALL OR MOBILIZATION. PER COMNAVRESFOR NORFOLK VA 191101Z AUG 14.

After the NAVPERS 1336/3 has been approved and the NAVPERS 1070/613 has been prepared and signed the NRA will fill out a CME Submission Cover Sheet and Cumulative Spreadsheet and either the NRA or member can submit the package and approved coversheet to BUMED by Email, Mail or Fax as indicated below.
Email: usn.ncr.bumedfchva.mbx.m10-cme@mail.mil
Subj: CME ICO RANK LNAME FNAME
Mail: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Reserve Policy & Integration (M10) ATTN: CME
7700 Arlington Blvd, DHHQ
Falls Church, VA 22042

As an Active Status Pool Individual Ready Reserve (ASP IRR) member what is the process for submitting my Continuing Medical Education (CME) courses for retirement point credit?

All non-drilling ASP IRR members will complete a CME Submission Cover Sheet and Cumulative Spreadsheet and submit them along with their CME certificates/transcripts to BUMED by Email, Mail or Fax as indicated below.

Email: usn.ncr.bumedfchva.mbx.m10-admin@mail.mil
Subj: CME ICO RANK LNAME FNAME
Mail: Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Reserve Policy & Integration (M10) ATTN: CME
7700 Arlington Blvd, DHHQ
Falls Church, VA 22042

For ALL M10 Admin official business, please copy the M10 Admin Inbox (usn.ncr.bumedfchva.mbx.m10-admin@mail.mil).

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