How Self-Assessment CME works
When you Log onto the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) “Physician Folios”, you will go to a section called “Activity Attestation”. In this section, you have to document 90 combined CME credits over 3 years. 24 out of the 90 need to be self-assessment CME. Below is what the screen looks like:
As you can see above, by 12/31/2020 I have to attest to doing 90 CME, say which years I did it, and also if they were regular CME or self-assessment CME.
The Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast has been officially approved by the ABPN: approved list.
Our CME offers a total of 245.5 CME (as of 10/2/2024) of which up to 48 can be used for self-assessment CME if you do the one time 25 question quizzes. There are currently 2 self-assessment quizzes available which allows you to use 24 units for self-assessment for each quiz taken. You can find both quizzes here.
Doing the one time quiz allows you to use up to 24 of the podcast episode CME as self-assessment CME (the self-assessment quiz alone is not enough, you have to do both the one time quiz and ALSO pick 24 units of CME from episodes that appeal to you). Feel free to email me if this is still confusing! It was for me when I first learned about it also!
You can do a self-assessment quiz before, during or after during the individual CME episodes.
You do not need to score any particular score on the self-assessment quiz. I made the questions hard, so that you could see how the episodes will teach you something new. You will get an email with the correct answers, and also with why they are the correct answers. Each answer also has citations in case you are curious! The goal is to learn in the least painful way possible :)