New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 10 - MEDICINE AND SURGERY PRACTITIONERS
Part 22 - NATUROPATHIC DOCTORS: LICENSURE AND PRACTICE REQUIREMENTS
Section 16.10.22.18 - CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION APPROVAL

Universal Citation: 16 NM Admin Code 16.10.22.18

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024

A. CME providers are any organization or individual offering CME to naturopathic doctors. CME approval requests must consist of educational activities that serve to maintain, develop or increase the knowledge, skills and professional performance and relationships of naturopathic doctors in services for patients, the public and the profession. CME must offer education and skills recognized and accepted by the profession in areas pertaining to research, basic medical sciences, clinical practice, or public health care.

B. CME approval submissions will not be considered for programs that:

(1) misrepresent or mislead the end result or skill obtained by the education or training offered;

(2) are proprietary in nature, promoting exclusive services, companies or products;

(3) are community service oriented in nature;

(4) are nonprofessional health related programs presented by a lay person(s);

(5) are nonprofessional health related programs directed to the lay public;

(6) are not relevant to the scope of practice of naturopathic medicine.

(7) pertain to personal-growth/ personal-help;

(8) pertain to practice building; or

(9) pertain to medical or insurance billing;

C. CME Providers (CMEP) must complete and submit a CME approval request prior to advertising or promoting the event.

(1) CMEP approval requests must be received by the board at least 12 weeks before the event offering.

(2) CMEP approval requests must be submitted on an application form provided by the Board and contain the following:
(a) title of the program;

(b) syllabus or course outline for all offerings in the program;

(c) pharmacology and pain management hours must be delineated in each request with supporting documentation;

(d) date(s);

(e) start and end time for individual presentations;

(f) total hours for entire program;

(g) location(s) of presentation;

(h) each presenter must be a naturopathic doctor, other licensed physician, or other professionally recognized health care provider with expertise in the subject matter; and

(i) presenter must disclose to the board and at the beginning of each presentation any fiduciary or other conflict of interests.

(3) CMEP must maintain attendance records for all approved presentations for a period of six years.

(4) Any changes to an already approved program, including but not limited to, presenter, content, and length of program or sponsorship must be submitted for approval by the board within two weeks of the changes. Any submission received after this time may be retroactively denied approval.

(5) The board reserves the right to decline for consideration programs that are not submitted with adequate documentation.

(6) Approved CMEP's are valid for three years, if there are no substantive changes to the program.

(7) It is the CMEP's responsibility to make a new application on a triennial basis from the date of original approval.

(8) A CMEP that has been submitted to the Board with inaccurate or misleading information may retroactively lose CME approval for the program, even if the program has already occurred.

(9) At its discretion, the board may appoint a member of the board or other designee to audit, by attendance, any program in order to verify appropriateness for approval of CME hours.

(10) If a program has been denied approval, the provider may submit a request for review by the Board with additional substantiating documentation.

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