We offer CME for physicians and cardiac sonographers(pending application approval).
Physician CME
The CME for physicians is AMA Category 1 PRA approved CME and can be used for CME requirements for medical licensure and/or privileges for medicine, cardiology, anesthesiology, or echocardiography. The CME does meet the requirements for the AMA and the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE). Physicians can have (5) attempts at passing a CME Exam.
Cardiac Sonographer CME (Application is pending)
The CME for Cardac Sonographers is approved by SDMS and is accepted for the CME requirements by the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, American Registry of Radiological Technologists, Cardiovascular Credentialing International and Canadian Association of Registereed Diagnositic Ultrasound Professionals. Contact the applicable registry for additional information/restrictions on their acceptance of SDMS CME Credit. If you are a SDMS member you can get a report of your CMEs at SDMS. Cardiac Songraphers can have up to (3) attemtps at passing an exam.
Selecting the Type of CME
Your occupation determines your CME type and area.
Physicians get AMA CME and Cardaic Sonographer get SDMS CME.
Non physicians do not have access to CME exams.
Obtaining CME Units
You must log in with an active subscription.
Purchase CME Credits.
Activate a CME Session.
Review a chapter in the Education Section.
Take and pass the correlating exam in the CME Section.
Pay for the CME Units with your CME credits.
Activating a CME Session
After you log into e-echocardiography you must Activate a CME Session.
Activating a CME Session will take you to the CME Disclaimer page and remove Advertisements and References to Manufacturers from the Educational Sections.
To activate a CME Session click on the
button in the Welcome page OR click on the CME Session Icon at the top right of every page.
When a CME Session is active you will see a CME Disclaimer page and the CME Session Icon will change to
which indicates that your CME Session is active.
Reviewing Educational Content
Just follow the links in the Education section. Your subscription determines which chapters will be active.
The color of the link will indicate which sections/pages are active, inactive, being edited, or could be activated if you just had the right subscription.
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Selecting a CME Exam
A CME exam for the correlating chapter can be found under the CME section in the menu bar. Just select the chapter you reveiwed, review the information, check that you have enough CME credits in your CME bank (unless you are going to pay by credit card) and start the exam. The exam is 10 questions for physicians or 10 questions per CME credit for cardiac sonographers. You will not be able to answer the questions unless you have read the material. Also, if the database does not indicate that you have reviewed every
page in the chapter withing the last 30 days you will be denied access
to that CME exam.
Paying for CME
You can pay for CME at the time of the exam (more expensive) or you
can purchase CME credits for your CME bank (less expensive). When you
sucessfully pass an exam, your credit card is charged for the CME units
or deducted from your CME bank. When you start a CME exam, we will
inform you how many CME credits you have in your bank so you can
purchase more credits prior to taking the exam.
The CME Bank
Also in the CME menu is the CME Bank. The CME bank allows individual users to buy cme credits at a discount before taking a CME exam. Once an exam is passed, the number of CME units awarded is subtracted from the CME bank. You can purchase additional CME credits at any time brofore taking the CME exam. The other option is to take an exam and then if you pass it, you can then put in your credit card information and obtain the num number of CMEs for that CME exam. The price after taking the exam is full price which is $20 USD for each CME unit.
Go to the CME Bank in your account to buy CME credits.
The current pricing for the CME Bank is:
Number of CME Credits Purchased
Price per Credit
Total Price
Savings
50
$7 USD
$350 USD
$650 USD
25
$10 USD
$250 USD
$250 USD
10
$15 USD
$150 USD
$50 USD
0 (purchase CMEs at the Exam)
$20 USD
$20 per credit
None
Save 33-75% by purchasing CME credits before you take an exam. Go to the CME Bank now!
The AMA CME Disclosure statement:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Nebraska Medical Association's Commission on Medical Education (NMACME) through the joint sponsorship of LMEP and JLS Interactive, LLC. The Lincoln Medical Education Partnership is accredited by the Nebraska Medical Association Commission on Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians
The SDMS CME Disclosure statement (Application Pending):
This activity is approved by the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS) as sonography-related continuing medical education (CME). Credit(s) issued for successful completion of SDMS-approved CME activities are accepted by the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, American Registry of Radiological Technologists, Cardiovascular Credentialing International and Canadian Association of Registered Diagnostic Ultrasound Professionals. Contact the applicable registry for additional information / restrictions on their acceptance of SDMS CME credit
at the top right of every page. 
