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New Mexico Pharmacy CE category requirements

How the 30 CE hours every 2 years breaks down by category for pharmacists in New Mexico, sourced from the official board.

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30CE hours every 2 yearsVerify with board

Required categories

Hormonal contraception, live (if the pharmacist exercises hormonal-contraception prescriptive authority) (conditional)
1h
Live CE (law hours excluded)
10h
Opioid-antagonist drug therapy (if the pharmacist exercises opioid-antagonist prescriptive authority) (conditional)
1h
Patient safety
2h
Pharmacist clinician, additional CE beyond the base 30, at least 10 live (if certified as a pharmacist clinician) (conditional)
20h
Pharmacy law (New Mexico Board)
2h
Point-of-care-testing drug therapy, live, per category exercised (if the pharmacist has POCT prescriptive authority) (conditional)
2h
Responsible opioid prescribing (if a pharmacist clinician with schedule II or III controlled-substance registration) (conditional)
2h
Safe use of opioids (may overlap patient safety if properly designated)
2h
Tobacco-cessation drug therapy (if the pharmacist exercises tobacco-cessation prescriptive authority) (conditional)
1h
Vaccines, live (if the pharmacist exercises vaccine prescriptive authority) (conditional)
1h

Verified against 16.19.4.10 NMAC (RLD July 2025 PDF), 16.19.26 NMAC as amended effective February 10, 2026 (New Mexico Register Vol. XXXVII Issue 3), and 16.19.4.17 NMAC (pharmacist clinician, via Cornell LII): 30 hours every two years with at least 10 live hours (law hours excluded), 2 patient-safety hours, 2 New Mexico Board pharmacy-law hours, and 2 safe/appropriate opioid-use hours; a two-hour combined patient-safety/opioid course may satisfy both. The renewal period runs the 24 months from the last day of the pharmacist's birth month (NM Register XXXV/21 amendment); initial New Mexico licensees are exempt for the initial period. Prescriptive-authority CE under 16.19.26 now counts toward the base 30 (the 'in addition to' language was removed): vaccines - 1 live ACPE hour (16.19.26.9.B(3)); tobacco cessation - 1 ACPE hour (16.19.26.10.B(3)); opioid antagonist - 1 ACPE hour (16.19.26.12.B(3)); hormonal contraception - 1 live ACPE hour (16.19.26.13.B(3)); point-of-care testing - 2 live ACPE hours per category exercised (16.19.26.14.B(3)); TB-testing CE is 'as appropriate to maintain competence' with no fixed hours. Pharmacist clinicians must complete 20 additional contact hours beyond the base 30, at least 10 live (16.19.4.17.C(2)(a)), plus 2 hours per renewal period in responsible opioid prescribing when holding a schedule II or III controlled-substance registration (16.19.4.17.C(2)(b)).

Official source: New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Dept - 16.19.4 and 16.19.26 NMAC

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