09/07/2022    Alan Sherman, DPM

In-Person Requirement for CE? (Steven Kravitz, DPM)

Dr. Kravitz notes that FL recently reduced its
allowance of online CME to 8 per biennium, or just
20% of the 40 credits required. This is not true.
The FL Board of Podiatric Medicine website
currently states, as they have since 2020, that
they are not limiting home study CME through the
end of 2022. But aside from the 2020-2022 period
during COVID when online was the only choice to
earn CME, FL has always limited online to 20%.
After all, they have the SAM meeting to support and
don’t wish to allow competition with it.

The state boards are free, as Dr. Kravitz notes, to
set the limitations on online CME at any level that
they choose, and though they are not democratic per
se, they are responsive to the collective will of
podiatrists in their state. Letting your state
board know what you want is the ONLY way of getting
limitations lifted and we have seen more movement
these last 3 years than ever before. We a PRESENT
have scrambled to keep our complete list of State
CME Laws accurate by updating it frequently by
checking the state websites and calling the state
board offices when needed.

Currently, we note only 8 states that currently
limit online CME…but there has been some
distinction made between, on-demand pre-recorded
lectures vs. live virtual streamed events. We
encourage you to check with your state boards and
if you find an inaccuracies in our State CME Laws
database, please let us know. We will investigate
and update if we don’t have the latest regs. We
offer all forms of CME, including live in-person
and virtual conferences, as well as live webinars
and on-demand lectures, and prefer to give our
customers the freedom to choose what form(s) they
prefer to earn their CME in. We wish the remaining
8 states of GA, IO, KY, MN, MI, NC, TN and TX would
allow all types of CME. Believe it or not, CT and
MT currently have no state CME requirement!

Alan Sherman, DPM, CEO, PRESENT e-Learning Systems

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