How Shift CME works

Plan one to seven study days. Every date you choose is a study day, including weekends.

Study days run from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM local time, with presentations starting at scheduled times. That leaves the rest of the day to enjoy your destination.

Check in once during your conference, on any study day from 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM local time, within 20 miles of your destination’s designated center. If your phone can’t confirm your location, you can confirm it yourself when you check in. If you haven’t checked in by 10:00 PM on your last study day, no participation is recorded.

Shift CME licenses educational content for live conferences at designated destinations. Those licenses restrict use to the conference location, so you need to be at your selected destination to participate. Presentations start at their scheduled times as part of your personalized program.

Presentations start at their scheduled times. If you join late, playback picks up where the session is now. After a presentation ends, you can review its slides and knowledge checks, but its audio is no longer available.

Before you confirm, you can swap or remove sessions, or regenerate the plan. Choosing Confirm and lock itinerary locks the program. To change it after that, cancel the conference and plan a new one. Cancelled or incomplete confirmed conferences keep their confirmation.

It depends on the session. A presentation or journal module offers AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ only where its accredited provider offers a CME activity and supplies instructions for claiming it; then you claim it as that provider directs. That credit comes from the provider, not from Shift CME, and not every session offers it. Physicians may also self-claim AMA PRA Category 2 Credit™ for learning they judge meets the AMA’s requirements, and your Shift CME records can support that claim. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants follow their own certifying bodies’ rules: NCCPA lets PAs self-claim Category 2 CME, while AANPCB and ANCC require accredited contact hours, which Shift CME does not award.

Knowledge checks and evaluations are optional unless required for the AMA CME credit you choose to claim.

We email your records automatically after your last study day. Once your last session ends, you can choose Get my records now if you’d like them sooner. If you submit the course evaluation before your records are prepared, it’s included.

If you’re self-employed, give your records to your tax advisor. If you’re employed, use them to request reimbursement from your CME or education allowance. Keep your travel receipts with them.