Component Two: Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment

CME Credits

A minimum of 250 Category 1 CME credit hours, approved by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), are required over the 10-year cycle. Of the 250 hours, a minimum of 70 percent must be in specialty-specific or related areas.

"Specialty-specific" means any credit related to the specialty of radiology, and also to the areas related to the radiologist's specific practice, such as neurology for the neuroradiologist, urology for the genitourinary radiologist, orthopedics for the musculoskeletal radiologist, etc.

The remaining 30 percent can include additional specialty-specific material as well as clinically related areas or relevant topics such as risk management, ethics, statistics, the processes of continuous quality improvement, methodologies of outcome of measurement, etc.

Self-Assessment

The self-assessment requirement must be satisfied by completing 20 self-assessment modules (SAMs) over the ten-year cycle. These are educational venues (e.g., refresher courses, workshops, reading assignments, online offerings, etc.) that have been ABR-qualified and are usually offered by radiology societies. All SAMs are also qualified as Category 1 CME and can fill that requirement as well.

SAM breakdown for diplomates with
DR certificate only

• 4 Noninterpretive Skills SAMs
• 16 Clinical Content SAMs

SAM breakdown for diplomates with
any one subspecialty certificate ("CAQ")

• 4 Noninterpretive Skills SAMs
• 16 Clinical Content SAMs
  (Including 6 subspecialty-specific SAMs)

SAM breakdown for diplomates with
any two subspecialty certificates ("CAQs")

• 4 Noninterpretive Skills SAMs
• 16 Clinical Content SAMs
  (Including 6 subspecialty-specific SAMs in each subspecialty)

See the list of available SAMS.