California Physician CE requirements
Physician and Surgeon (MD) — license renewal requirements, sourced from the official board.
Renewal: Individualized expiration; commonly the end of the birth month in the expiration year.
Required categories
Details
50 approved CME hours each biennial renewal cycle; attestation with records retained 4 years; one-time 12-hour pain management/end-of-life requirement (or an alternative one-time opioid-dependence course); general internists/family physicians with more than 25% of patients age 65+ must devote 20% of mandatory hours to geriatrics/dementia/older-patient care. Licenses issued on or before 2018-07-01 expire in the birth month; licenses issued after that date expire in the month of issue, so a blanket birth-month deadline does not fit every licensee.
Official source: Medical Board of California — Continuing Medical Education
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