As you may be aware, the State Medical Board of Ohio (SMBO) has partnered with the continuing medical education (CME) reporting service, CE Broker, to handle the its audits of licensees (both MDs and DOs).
What does this mean to you?
Anyone who is among the randomly selected percentage of physicians who receive an audit for CME compliance will need to respond by reporting their CME via CE Broker. Your CME must be logged there for the purposes of the audit, but you are not obligated to use it for anything other than that.
But with this in mind and the desire to eliminate additional burden for our members, the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP) and the AAFP partnered to simplify the process. Members simply continue to report CME to the AAFP through Primary+, and the Academy will then share that information with CE Broker automatically.
All AAFP/OAFP members who are licensed in Ohio, your CME activities produced by the AAFP or the OAFP will be sent to CE Broker:
- Upon completion of the CME activity, report your CME to the AAFP.
- The AAFP then will share reported CME for AAFP or OAFP produced CME to CE Broker.
- Therefore, if your CME records are audited, CE Broker will already have those CME records.
It’s important that you continue to report all CME you complete to the AAFP since you’ll receive the valuable benefit of automatic reporting to the American Board of Family Medicine when you meet its requirements as well as uploading to CE Broker. By doing so, you’ll reduce your administrative tasks even further!