CME Credits Now Available for UCSF's Online Courses - Kevin Eisenmann, UCFS News

UC San Francisco has started offering continuing medical education credits for select massively open online courses – known as MOOCs – making it among the first universities in the nation to do so. “We are thrilled to provide health care professionals from throughout the nation and world, with a new opportunity to access online UCSF courses that offer continuing medical education credit,” said Joseph I. Castro, PhD, vice chancellor for UCSF Student Academic Affairs. “This is the beginning of many exciting new online education initiatives planned by UCSF over the coming months and years.” In the US, health care professionals are required by the state in which they practice to earn a minimum number of continuing medical education credits each year. Such training helps clinicians maintain competency and learn about new and developing areas within their fields. California requires at least 50 hours of training every two years. UCSF has been identifying ways to provide such credit for its MOOC’s hosted by Coursera, a company that offers coursework online. http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/02/13538/cme-credits-now-available-ucsfs-online-courses