In the process of approving the new protocol, the AOA Board stipulated that CME credits earned from AOA publications apply toward the CME cycle in progress when DOs submit quizzes to the AOA.
“Now, each quiz counts for the CME cycle in which you take it, which may not be the same CME cycle in which the publication was printed,” notes Dr D'Alonzo, who is a professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. “Not only does that streamline the process for DOs tremendously, but it also improves the educational value of the quizzes. DOs will no longer be taking 3-year-old quizzes related to out-of-date information, nor will they miss out on taking recent quizzes just because a new CME cycle started shortly after the quizzes were published.”