CME reibursement

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Specializes in General.

I have a question how does the place you work handle CME do you take a day off and do self study cme's and be charged for cme or do you go to a conference, my facility tried telling me that if I do cmes on my own i dont get credit for time off it is considered my own time, this did not seem right. I talked to my supervising md and she told me that they did it for her and they should do it across the board. The reason I asked for CME time was we have a death in the family but not my immediate family and I was going to use CME hours to go to the funeral and actually do the CME's while traveling. So now they told me yes I can do it that way but because the month of august is closed for vacations they may not approve the time off. This is not a vacation but a funeral for my husbands closet aunt ergh, if they make a big deal of it i will just drop it

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

What about taking a PTO day?

CME in my practice is 5 days off per year and $1500/year. It is to be used for conferences. Personally, I don't consider do it yourself CMEs to be true CMEs but that is my opinion only.

I hope you are able to work the time off and I'm sorry for your loss.

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I have the greatest employer ever. I get four weeks a year for vacation/CME time to be used for whatever I want. Plus $2000 a year for reimbursment.

I have to agree, I don't think the online CME hours are much of anything. You would have to do a ton of them to amount to anything. Conferences are the way to go.

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Specializes in General.

unfortunately the funeral is 3 states away so i will see what i can do, i agree that online cmes are a hassle but if i dont have to use vacation days I wont, and i have not been there long enough for pto

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Specializes in Adult primary care, college health.

I had a previous employer where they decided to accept online CMEs, but in that case it was primarily because our total CME stipend was so limited, the only way to use up the CME time off allowance and come in under this stipend limit was to spend a day doing online CMEs (I actually submitted the "syllabus" I'd come up with to my supervisor, which made us all feel better about it, since it did seem a little strange).

It sounds as though someone else you work with was allowed to do this in the past, so since there's a precedent for it (even if it was an exception) you might be able to convince them to make an exception for you as well.

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Specializes in General.

well either way my days off were denied since it is the last week before school and kids are coming in for their physicals they are worried that if i have to rescedule mondays appointments that they will transfer to another practice and we will lose money

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I'm so sorry!

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