PANRE Review Course CME Package: $499.99 for 30 months of access
Includes 2,500+ board-style questions across 15 body-system question modules, plus five full-length 240-question mock exams.
Earn up to 100 AAPA Category 1 CME credits through the PANRE Clinical Review Module.
Important: Amazon and Apple gift cards are paid add-ons, not free gifts. Select a $100–$1,500 add-on at checkout; its cost is added to your purchase total.
PANRE prep can get pushed aside when you’re balancing patient care, documentation, and life outside work. The answer isn’t necessarily to wait until your schedule clears. A more reliable plan is to study in repeatable blocks, make checkpoints for yourself, and use practice questions to decide what needs attention next.
Mistake: Waiting for a “free week” to study
A week with no shifts, family obligations, or other demands may sound like the ideal time to start. But if your plan depends on that week appearing, preparation can keep getting postponed.
Instead, make study blocks small enough to fit into your real schedule. Choose a recurring time you can protect, then use it to complete questions and review the rationales. A missed session doesn’t have to derail the plan: put another block on the calendar and continue.
The goal is consistency, not a perfect calendar. A short block of focused practice gives you feedback about what you know and what you need to revisit. That’s more useful than waiting to begin until you can devote a large stretch of time.
Mistake: Treating 30 months of access like unlimited time
Course access and certification deadlines are not the same thing. The PANRE Review Course includes 30 months of access, but that duration does not replace the deadlines that apply to your certification or to the CME activity.
Check the NCCPA’s maintain-certification page and key dates page for the source of truth on your recertification timing. For CME requirements, refer to NCCPA’s continuing medical education page.
There is also a separate course-activity date to track: the PANRE Clinical Review Module approval is valid from 8/26/2026 to 8/26/2027. The course itself can remain accessible according to its 30-month access period, but the activity’s approval has its own expiration date. Set a personal checkpoint to review your progress and the applicable dates rather than assuming you can leave everything until the end of access.
Mistake: Scheduling by hours or pages instead of questions
Pages read and time spent can feel like progress, but they don’t show whether you can apply the material. A better scheduling unit is questions completed, reviewed, and reassessed.
The course has 15 body-system question modules mapped to the NCCPA PANRE blueprint. Its PANRE Readiness Dashboard tracks attempted versus correct questions and breaks performance down by topic. You can flag questions and retake them without a limit; the dashboard also displays an “on track to pass” indicator at 75% or higher.
Use that feedback to direct your next study block. If your performance is weaker in a particular system, schedule more questions from that module and review the rationales. The dashboard’s topic breakdown helps surface weak areas that a total question count, or a page count, might hide.
| Scheduling by hours or pages | Scheduling by questions |
|---|---|
| Tracks time spent or material read | Tracks attempts and correct answers |
| Can hide weak body systems | Uses per-topic performance to guide review |
| Makes progress harder to assess | Lets you revisit flagged questions and retake them |
The course includes 2,500+ board-style questions across its question modules and five full-length mock exams, each with 240 questions. The mock exams include per-question rationales and cited sources. The course also includes high-yield video lectures with downloadable slides, but use question performance to decide where your review time goes.
CME gift cards and the PANRE Review Course
The PANRE Review Course CME Package costs $499.99 for 30 months of access and offers up to 100 AAPA Category 1 CME credits through the PANRE Clinical Review Module, part of Comprehensive Clinical Review for Practicing PAs: 2026–27 Enduring CME Activity. The credit applies to this PANRE Review Course module, not the Pharmacology course. Claim only credit commensurate with your participation.
To earn credit, review all module content, complete the post-test with a score of 70% or higher, and complete the activity evaluation. Missed questions may be retaken. A certificate stating your precise credit is issued after completion. The activity’s AAPA reference number is CME-2016187; approval is valid 8/26/2026 to 8/26/2027.
The Amazon and Apple options are paid add-ons, not free gifts. Choose an add-on in $100 tiers from $100 to $1,500 at checkout. Its cost is added to the course price, and the course and add-on are purchased in one transaction. Gift cards are emailed within 2–3 business days of purchase; you do not need to finish the course first. There are no refunds on gift card packages, and the site is not affiliated with Amazon or Apple. Check your employer’s CME policy before purchasing.
If you buy two or more CME courses, 20% comes off every course automatically; gift-card add-ons stay at face value. For groups of 15 or more, email for a quote. Nurse practitioners should verify acceptance of AAPA Category 1 credit with their state board of nursing, because acceptance varies by state. For physicians, this activity meets AAPA Category 1 requirements but counts as Category 2 for their own reporting.
Clinical vignette: A painful rash after starting lamotrigine
You’re seeing a middle-aged adult who started lamotrigine about two weeks ago. After flu-like symptoms, including fever and malaise, the patient develops a painful, spreading rash with atypical targetoid lesions, painful mouth erosions, and burning eyes. A small area of skin sloughs with gentle lateral pressure. What is the best next step?
(A) Stop the lamotrigine and arrange urgent hospital admission for suspected Stevens-Johnson syndrome.
(B) Continue the medication and see how the rash evolves over the next week.
(C) Treat with oral antihistamines for presumed urticaria and arrange outpatient follow-up.
(D) Prescribe a topical steroid and reassess in primary care.
Correct answer: (A) Stop the lamotrigine and arrange urgent hospital admission. The new medication exposure, painful spreading rash, mucosal involvement, and skin sloughing are concerning for Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a dermatologic emergency.
Continuing the offending drug lets the reaction progress. Antihistamines address itching, not a life-threatening mucocutaneous reaction. Topical steroids and reassurance understate the urgency and are not an appropriate substitute for hospital admission.
Exam note: A new drug in the prior weeks plus mouth or eye involvement and a painful, spreading rash should trigger concern for SJS. Stop the drug and get the patient admitted; don’t treat it like a routine rash.
This is why questions are a useful scheduling unit: answering a case, reviewing the rationale, and tracking the Dermatology module’s performance gives you a concrete next step. That module includes 218 questions. Use your attempts and topic breakdown to decide when to return to it, rather than relying on pages or hours alone.
Try the course before you plan your next study block
Visit the PANRE Review Course product page to review the package and, if useful, add a paid Amazon or Apple gift card at checkout. You can also explore the free PANRE test drive.
For PANCE prep courses, try PAtopia’s web test drive, or explore the PAtopia iOS app and PAtopia on Google Play. For your recertification timing, use the NCCPA’s maintain-certification and key dates pages.
About the author
Jeremy Boroff, MPAS, PA-C is an Emergency Medicine PA with 24 years of clinical experience, a PA educator, author, and CME developer. He is the sole faculty for this activity and has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.