Washington Administrative Code
Title 246 - Health, Department of
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND LICENSING
Chapter 246-918 - Physician assistants Washington medical commission
Section 246-918-180 - Continuing medical education requirements

(1) A physician assistant must complete one hundred hours of continuing education every two years as required in chapter 246-12 WAC, Part 7, which may be audited for compliance at the discretion of the commission.

(2) In lieu of one hundred hours of continuing medical education the commission will accept :

(3) The commission approves the following categories of creditable continuing medical education. A minimum of forty credit hours must be earned in Category I.

Category I Continuing medical education activities with accredited sponsorship

Category II Continuing medical education activities with nonaccredited sponsorship and other meritorious learning experience.

(4) The commission adopts the standards approved by the AAPA for the evaluation of continuing medical education requirements in determining the acceptance and category of any continuing medical education experience.

(5) A physician assistant does not need prior approval of any continuing medical education. The commission will accept any continuing medical education that reasonably falls within the requirements of this section and relies upon each physician assistant's integrity to comply with these requirements.

(6) A continuing medical education sponsor does not need to apply for or expect to receive prior commission approval for a formal continuing medical education program. The continuing medical education category will depend solely upon the accredited status of the organization or institution. The number of hours may be determined by counting the contact hours of instruction and rounding to the nearest quarter hour. The commission relies upon the integrity of the program sponsors to present continuing medical education for the physician assistant that constitutes a meritorious learning experience.