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New CME Certification benefit from IMQ

New! CME Certification subscribers now can view and print their CME transcripts. Click here for the CME Certification Log-In portal. IMQ offers physicians a convenient service to record and verify the AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ required by the Medical Board of California (MBC) for re-licensure. Each physician is responsible for maintaining CME records and must produce the documentation if audited. The Medical Board will accept IMQ verification of CME credits, with no additional documentation, for any physician using the CME Certification service. The CME Certification service is available to ...

CME certification now available online

Users of the CME certification service offered by the California Medical Association's (CMA) Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) are now able to check the status of CME credits, keep track of their progress and print their transcripts at their convenience from IMQ's online CME certification user portal. Physicians are required to complete 50 CME hours during every two-year licensure period, with reporting deadlines based on the physician's personal license renewal date (the last day of the month of the physician's birthday). IMQ's CME Certification Program documents and verifies physicians' CME activities. ...

Free webinar on new Medi-Cal alcohol screening and prevention benefit

Primary care physicians are invited to attend a free webinar that will cover a new Medi-Cal benefit for individuals with alcohol use disorders, as well as those who are at risk of developing these disorders. The webinar, 12 to 1 p.m. on Monday, March 24, will be presented by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) in partnership with Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) experts from the University of California, Los Angeles and L.A. Care Health Plan.   Participants will learn more about the SBIRT benefit, ...

IMQ Launches Online CME Member Benefit

The California Medical Association’s Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) has launched IMQ Online Education, a new source of continuing medical education. IMQ Online Education offers physicians a growing selection of courses, including many needed to maintain licensure, accessible at any time and from any internet-enabled device. Members receive discounted rates on the entire catalog of online CME. IMQ Online Education offers access to a diverse catalog of courses in a variety of formats, lengths and credit levels, organized by subject category for easy browsing. The system is convenient: start a ...