MyCME

Members

Use MyCME to manage your Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit at your convenience. With MyCME, you can view, upload, and track CME activities, electronically share CME Credits with the American Board of Surgery (ABS), and reflect on and plan your future learning.

Non-Members

For nonmembers of the ACS who attend ACS-accredited courses:

Use MyCME to electronically share CME Credits with the ABS, view credits earned from activities offered through the ACS, and view Education Credits of Excellence earned through designated ACS activities.

Opt In to Have Your CME Data Automatically Transferred to the ABS via ACCME

The ABS made changes to its CME processes, which impact the way that diplomates interact with the Board, upload CME credits, and meet Continuous Certification requirements.

The ability to directly transmit CME data from the ACS MyCME portal to the ABS has been a longtime ACS membership benefit, and we are committed to making compliance with the Board’s new rules as seamless as possible. For more details, read the agreement between the ABS and Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, which is responsible for these changes.

For all ABS Diplomates who successfully complete and claim AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^™ for an ACS-accredited activity, the associated CME credit automatically will be transferred to the ACCME and subsequently the ABS.

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To simplify and streamline Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and CME reporting, the ACS is collaborating with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to seamlessly report physician participation in ACS-accredited CME activities to the ABS.

By attending an ACS-accredited activity, you may choose to participate in the automatic transfer of your CME delivered to the ABS via the ACCME.

The direct automatic transfer applies to all learners who have an ACS profile, are Diplomates of the ABS, and have provided their ABS ID and date of birth in the ACS MyCME Portal.

You may choose to opt in for all your ACS-accredited CME credits to be automatically transferred on your behalf, by updating your preferences using these simple steps:

Log in to your MyCME Portal
Select Send CME tab
Check the box that states “Yes! I choose to opt in and permit the ACS to automatically transfer all my ACS-accredited CME data to my chosen specialty board earned March 1, 2021, and forward.”

You can change your preferences and opt out at any time.

Frequently Asked Questions

What if I took an ACS-accredited activity that was held by another organization, society, or healthcare institution?

If you attend activities with an outside organization, you will be required to provide your ACS Learner ID to the CME provider when claiming credit if you would like the credits transferred automatically to the ABS via ACCME.

If you do not already have an ACS profile (Learner ID), you can create one through the ACS New User Registration Form. This is a free offering for both members and nonmembers who have enrolled in an ACS educational activity. If you need assistance with creating an ACS Learner ID or are not certain if you already have one, please contact Log-In Help. Please note this is required only for those who do not already have an account at the ACS.

If you create your account after you attended an ACS-accredited activity through an outside provider, please contact MyCME@facs.org to ensure the credits for that activity are applied to your CME transcript.

What do I need to do to enable automatic transfer of completed CME activities for the ABS to award MOC?

After an ABS Diplomate completes and claims AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^™ and your CME credit is successfully transferred, the ABS will then issue related MOC credit/points. No additional action is needed.

Which specialty boards are currently supported?

The ABS is supported for the transmission of CME credits earned from ACS-accredited activities. We anticipate adding additional boards in the future.

If you have an ACS profile (Learner ID) and have claimed CME from ACS-accredited activities starting from March 1, 2021, and onward that have not yet been transferred to the ABS, the ACS will transmit those CME credits for you.

Moving forward, all ABS Diplomates who claim CME from ACS-accredited activities will have those credits transmitted automatically by the ACS to the ABS via the ACCME once you have opted in to participate.

How do I opt in to the automatic CME credit transmission to the ABS?

You can choose to opt in to the automatic transmission by following these simple steps:

Log in to your MyCME Portal
Select Send CME tab
Click the toggle to “I choose to opt in and permit the ACS to automatically transfer all my ACS-accredited CME data to my chosen specialty board earned March 1, 2021, and forward.”
You can change your preferences and opt out at any time.

What if it is not an ACS-accredited activity?

If you participate in an activity that was not accredited by the ACS, you are more than welcome to keep track of those activities inside your MyCME portal as you have done in past. However, we cannot transmit these data to the board. It is recommended the attendee contact the host of the CME activity that was accredited by an external provider to receive information for how to transmit the CME Data. The host of the CME activity may have most likely collaborated with ACCME and the applicable boards to arrange for those data to be transmitted automatically. The host for the activity will most likely know if the data will be automatically sent on your behalf from the board. So, you will not have to do anything else. If you would like additional information regarding ABS and how they will receive credits for courses not accredited by the ACS, please email cc@absurgery.org.

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CME Opportunities

Be sure to check out our publications, events, and online courses to help satisfy your state mandates, ACS accreditation/verification requirements, and CME requirements.

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State Requirements

The majority of licensing boards have established specific content requirements for CME Credit such as Ethics, Pain Management/Opioid Prescribing, and Patient Safety. See the current CME requirements for license renewal.

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Specialty Board Requirements

The ACS Division of Education has compiled a summary of the MOC/CC CME requirements for American Board of Medical Specialties and American Osteopathic Board specialties and subspecialties.

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