Serving the Healthcare licensing community since 1992

The ProBE Program consists of 22 hours of continuing education of which 14 are contact hours and 8 additional hours are credited to preparation, evaluation and assessment. ProBE has satisfied the requirement for continuing medical education (CME) in professional ethics mandated by the licensing boards for all of the 44 states that have referred more than 500 of their licensees to this program in the last decade.
Because attendance at this program is typically in response to a legal order and therefore not voluntary; and since state medical boards will not permit required CME hours to be applied to relicensure, and finally, since the American Medical Association permits AMA PRA awards only to fully licensed physicians, it has therefore been our policy not to offer formal AMA Category 1 CME.

It is our judgment that offering formal AMA PRA credits would be deceptive. Joining with the state licensing boards and the American Medical Association, our policy is to maintain the integrity of The ProBE Program’s assessment and evaluation process, upon which both the participant and the licensing boards depend. To confuse it with the AMA PRA process exposes all parties to potential, apparent and actual conflicts of interest. These conflicts are engendered by the undeniable differences between the purposes of a ProBE assessment and the objectives which validate formal ACCME accreditation.

	CPEP - Center for Personalized Education for Physicians 7351 Lowry Boulevard, Suite 100 Denver, CO 80230 Telephone: 303-577-3232 -- Fax: 303-577-3241
Contacts:	Cindy Usick, ProBE Program Coordinator Joseph d'Oronzio, PhD, MPH ProBE Program Director