Component Two: Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment

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

The remaining 30% 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 the societies. All SAMs are also qualified as Category 1 CME and can serve to fill that requirement as well.

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

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

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

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

See the list of available SAMS.