4907 APPROVED CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

4907.1 The Board, in its discretion, may approve continuing education programs and activities that contribute to the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician assistant uses to provide services to patients, the public or the profession and that the other requirements of this section.

4907.2 The Board may approve continuing medical education programs and activities for Category 1 credit that are as follows:

1. (a) Sponsored, co-sponsored, or accredited by:
2. (1) The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA);
3. (2) The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME);
4. (3) The American Osteopathic Council on Continuing Medical Education (AOACCME);
5. (4) The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP); or
6. (5) A state medical society; and
7. (b) Designated:
8. (1) Category 1 by the AAPA;
9. (2) American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award (AMA/PRA) Category 1 by the ACCME;
10. (3) Category 1 by the AOACCME; or
11. (4) Prescribed credit by the AAFP.

4907.3 A physician assistant may show proof of meeting the above continuing medical education requirements by providing evidence of current certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.

4907.4 The Board may approve continuing education programs and activities for Category 2 credit that are as follows:

1. (a) Limited in content to the following:
2. (1) Public health administration;
3. (2) The basic medical sciences; or
4. (3) The discipline of clinical medicine; and
5. (b) Comprised of one of the following activities:
6. (1) Grand rounds;
7. (2) Teaching rounds;

(3) Seminars;

(4) Lectures;

(5) Conferences;

(6) Medical teaching;

(7) Patient care review;

(8) Publication or presentation of an article related to practice as a physician assistant;

(9) Workshops;

(10) Courses of instruction, including self-instruction;

(11) Reading literature published primarily for readership by health care practitioners;

(12) Teaching health professionals, as long as such teaching is not a major professional responsibility of a physician assistant; or

(13) Written and practical examination, including self-assessment.

4907.5 An applicant shall have the burden of verifying whether a program or activity is approved by the Board pursuant to this section prior to attending the program or engaging in the activity.

SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 36 DCR 8263, 8266 (December 8, 1989); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 54 DCR 8486 (August 31, 2007).