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Earn CME/CPD credits while searching for answers to your clinical questions

Reduce time spent preparing for appraisal and revalidation, and demonstrate continuous improvement and development.

Your CME/CPD activity within BMJ Best Practice is automatically tracked, making it easier for you to keep on top of your learning, update your portfolio, and save you time preparing for appraisal.

In order to use this great feature, you’ll need to either have a personal subscription or set up a user profile on BMJ Best Practice. You can do this easily when you’re accessing BMJ Best Practice via your institution.

Benefits

  • Save time preparing for appraisal with automatic activity tracking

  • Demonstrate continuous improvement and development

  • Keep a record of BMJ Best Practice activity on a personal dashboard

  • Download & print certificates to evidence your learning

  • Easily save your certificate into your portfolio

  • Continue to claim your credits via easily available links to your relevant accrediting bodies

BMJ Best Practice is accredited around the world

Get the recognition you deserve by claiming CPD/CME credits from our global list of accrediting institutions.

BMJ Best Practice is accredited by over 65 organisations globally, including prestigious bodies such as the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), and Cleveland Clinic.

You can claim CPD/CME points for time spent reading our clinical topics.

Click on button below to find information on our accrediting organisations.

 

Steps to generate your personalised CME/CPD certificate:

1   Log in with your personal user profile

You will then be able to access your activity dashboard by clicking on ‘Claim CME/CPD credits’ at the top of the page or under the ‘Your profile’ menu. If you have access through your institution, but have not completed your user profile, you can do so here.

2   Select the activities you’d like to claim credits for

Activities are organised by month and include the number of hours spent on each topic. You can click on any month to find further detail on the topics viewed and number of hours. Once you have expanded this section, you tick what activity is to be included in your certificate.

3   Describe how this activity helped you

Tick any options that apply and add your reflection and impact statements (optional).

4   Click on ‘Download Certificate’

This will export a PDF of your certificate. Saved certificates can also be found under the separate tab.