Illinois Administrative Code › Title 68 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Part 1285 - MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT OF 1987 › Subpart A - MEDICAL LICENSING, RENEWAL AND RESTORATION PROCEDURE › Section 1285.110 - Continuing Medical Education (CME)

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
TheDivision shall promulgate rules of continuing education
				  for persons licensed under the Act that require150hours of continuing
				  educationper license renewal cycle.This Part shall be consistent with
				  requirements of relevant professional associations, specialty societies, or
				  boards. This Part will also address variances for illness or hardship. In
				  establishing this Part, the Division shall consider educational requirements
				  for medical staffs, requirements for specialty society board certification or
				  for continuing education requirements as a condition of membership in societies
				  representing the 2 categories of licensee (physicians licensed to practice
				  medicine in all of its branches and chiropractic physicians) under the Act.
				  This Part shall assure, but not be limited to, that licensees are given the
				  opportunity to participate in those programs sponsored by or through their
				  professional associations or hospitals that are relevant to their practice.
				  Each licensee is responsible for maintaining records of completion of
				  continuing education and shall be prepared to produce the records when
				  requested by theDivision. (Section 20 of the Act)
a) Continuing Medical Education Hours
				Requirements
1) For the July 31, 1999 renewal,
				a licensee will be required to complete 50 hours of continuing medical
				education (CME). The Division will accept CME taken on or after July 1, 1997.
				Beginning with the July 31, 2002 renewal and every renewal thereafter, in order
				to renew a license, a licensee shall be required to complete 150 hours of
				continuing medical education per prerenewal period.
2) A prerenewal period is the 36 months
				preceding July 31 in the year of the renewal.
3) One CME hour shall equal one clock hour.
				After completion of the initial CME hour, credit may be given in one-half hour
				increments.
4) A renewal applicant
				shall not be required to comply with CME requirements for the first renewal of
				an Illinois license.
5) Individuals
				licensed in Illinois but residing and practicing in other states shall comply
				with the CME requirements set forth in this Section.
6) Continuing medical education credit hours
				used to satisfy the CME requirements of another jurisdiction may be applied to
				fulfill the CME requirements of the State of Illinois if the CME required by
				the other jurisdiction is consistent with the CME requirements set forth in
				this Section.
7) The Division, upon
				recommendation of the Medical Licensing Board, will accept the American Medical
				Association Physician Recognition Award (AMA PRA) certificate awarded to
				physicians licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches as
				documentation of compliance with the 150 CME hours set forth in this Part. The
				hours shall be earned consistently with the prerenewal period set forth in
				subsection (a)(2).
8) CME used to
				satisfy the requirements for renewal of a license may not be used to satisfy
				the CME requirements for another renewal period.
9) The CME requirements set forth in this
				Section apply to both physicians licensed to practice medicine in all of its
				branches and chiropractic physicians licensed in Illinois.