The California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP) Continuing Medical Education (CME) mission is to enhance health care quality, equity and outcomes by delivering high-quality, evidence-based education in a variety of accessible formats that strengthens the competence and performance of family physicians and their care teams. The Committee on Continuing Professional Development (CCPD) collaborates with staff to develop and ensure the integrity of accredited educational content in all CAFP programs.
MDs: Physicians are required to complete 50 hours of approved CME credits during each licensure cycle. All credits must be Category 1.
DOs: Physicians are required to complete 50 hours of CME credits per licensure cycle. At least 20 of these hours must be American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Category 1A or 1B.
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The California Academy of Family Physicians is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. CAFP has been recognized by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) since 2000, achieving Accreditation with Commendation as an exemplary provider three times since then.
The fields of medicine and science never stop moving forward—and neither should family physicians. Physicians are expected to deliver safe, effective, cost-effective, compassionate care, based on best practice and evidence. Accredited Continuing Medical Education (CME) helps make that happen.
Family physicians can count on accredited CME to provide a protected space to learn and teach without commercial influence. Participation in accredited CME helps physicians meet requirements for maintenance of licensure, maintenance of certification, credentialing, membership in professional societies, and other professional privileges.
Accredited organizations are responsible for demonstrating they meet all requirements for delivering independent CME that accelerates learning, change, and improvement in health care, including the standards for independent content and management of commercial support. CAFP meets ACCME’s standards for commercial support, which means that all our education is free of commercial influence and bias.
Commercial support of education allows us to offer accredited education at a more reasonable cost to more health care professionals. All CME grants are given and accepted with the knowledge that a commercial company may not influence or control the content, speaker selection, or any other part of the CME activity in any way.
In addition, all faculty, speakers, planners and others with the potential to influence content must disclose any financial relationships to ineligible companies. CAFP mitigates relevant financial relationships and fully discloses to learners prior to the education.
The California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP) recognizes that you are a life-long learner who has chosen to engage in continuing medical education to identify or fill a gap in knowledge or skill; and to attain or enhance a desired competency. As part of CAFP’s duty to you as a learner, you have the right to expect that your continuing medical education experience with CAFP includes the following:
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