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DC Health Waives Public Health CME Requirement

Aug 27, 2020, 08:19 AM by MSDC Staff
DC Health is waiving the requirement of 5 CME hours from a topic on the public health list for the 2020 renewal period.

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This week, DC Health waived the new requirement that physicians renewing their license in 2020 include proof of five hours of CME from the public health priority list.

Physicians renewing their license this year are now only required to submit proof of two (2) hours of CME on LGBTQ cultural competency and one course on pharmacology. 

DC Health had published regulations earlier this year removing the previous requirement for three (3) hours of HIV/AIDS education and replaced it with a requirement that health professionals obtain 10% of their required hours from topics on a public health priority list established by DC Health. The list of topics were medical topics deemed to be timely for health professionals, and included issues like implicit bias, sexual health, ethics, and emergency preparations. For physicians, five (5) hours would be from that list of topics (see list here). 

To help answer questions about this development and the licensure process, MSDC has created two resources:

MSDC is also here to assist you in this process. Please call us at for more information or email duryea@msdc.org.

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