UPDATED REQUIREMENTS FOR CME RECERTIFICATION AND REINSTATEMENT:

The American Board of Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) is changing the requirements for recertification and reinstatement. It is important to the quality of care in the nursing home to have a knowledgeable and skilled medical director. As more physicians have dedicated their careers to the long term care continuum the opportunities for physician to lead and improve the care provide have grown. In order to acknowledge the importance of physician with expertise in medical direction serving in industry leadership roles the ABPLM is expanding the experience requirement to include those holding a leadership position that influence the care provided by the medical providers. With this change medical directors that transition to a role that is not the medical director of a particular nursing home, but the role still involves leading clinical medical providers in the long term care continuum. This type of leadership role will meet the experience requirement for recertification and reinstatement as a certified medical director.

The process of reinstatement as a Certified Medical Director changed to remove barriers to restarting the certification process. The recredentialing and reinstatement process will now be the same. For the educational requirement, the medical director must have 60 clinical CME and 60 management credits within the last 6 years. The experience requirement will be the same of having served in a clinical leadership role in the long term care continuum within the last 6 year.  There will no longer an additional $100 fee for reinstatement.

The change to expand the types of roles that count got the experience requirement and the elimination of the barrier to reinstatement are an effort to acknowledge the changing long term care industry. ABPLM feels these changes will help to keep knowledgeable engaged physicians working to grow their skills in medical direction. 

Posted 3/2/2022