Category: CME & Recertification

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Anticoagulants, Antibiotics, Antihypertensives: A Category 1 CME Refresher

Three drug families sit at the center of everyday practice, and all three are moving targets. Get them right and a lot of medicine gets easier; get rusty and the second-guessing starts. They’re worth a periodic, deliberate refresh — not because you don’t know them, but because the details shift.

Anticoagulants have changed the most. DOACs have particular dosing by indication and renal function, specific reversal agents, and bridging decisions that trip people up. Keeping the current picture straight — when a DOAC is preferred, when warfarin still wins, how to manage a bleed — is high-stakes and high-yield. Antibiotics demand a working mental model of spectrum and resistance, plus the perennial questions around penicillin-cephalosporin cross-reactivity and stewardship. Antihypertensives reward knowing first-line choices by comorbidity (the diabetic, the patient with heart failure, the pregnant patient) and the contraindications that turn a reasonable choice into a harmful one.

A refresher works best when it puts these side by side and tests you on the distinctions, rather than leaving you to notice a gap only when a patient is in front of you. The Pharmacology Review Course does that across these families and the rest of the high-yield map: 12.5 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME, organized by class, with teaching explanations that reinforce the why. You come out sharper on the medications you reach for most — and you log documented credit doing it. It’s $399.99 for 30 months, with the optional $100–$1,500 Amazon or Apple gift-card add-on.

Refresh your prescribing with 12.5 hours of CME →

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Anatomy of the PANRE Blueprint: What 100 Hours of Prep Actually Covers

The PANRE isn’t a mystery — the NCCPA publishes exactly what it covers. The exam is built around organ-system content areas (cardiovascular, pulmonary, GI, musculoskeletal, and the rest) crossed with task areas like history and physical, diagnostic studies, clinical intervention, and pharmacotherapeutics. Knowing that structure is the first step to preparing efficiently, because it tells you where the questions actually live.

The trouble for most recertifying PAs is drift. After years in a focused practice — say, emergency medicine or a single specialty — whole content areas go quiet. You haven’t thought hard about dermatologic prescribing or pediatric development or endocrine workups because your day-to-day doesn’t demand it. The PANRE, though, samples the entire blueprint. Effective prep has to be comprehensive, not just a refresher on what you already use.

That’s how the PANRE Review Course is organized. Its 1,200 questions are distributed across the blueprint’s content areas rather than clustered where questions are easy to write, so your practice percentage reflects real readiness. The 5 full-length mock exams reproduce the breadth and pacing of the actual test. And the whole thing carries 100 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME, so the comprehensive review that gets you ready also satisfies the bulk of your cycle’s credit requirement.

Preparing to the blueprint — deliberately covering the areas that have gone rusty, not just the ones you’re comfortable with — is what separates a confident sitting from a nervous one. When your prep is built to that same map, you’re not guessing what to study. It’s $399.99 for 30 months, with the optional $100–$1,500 gift-card add-on.

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Pharmacology + PANRE Together: The Highest-Yield Study Combo for Recert

If you’re recertifying and want the most score improvement per hour studied, the data-backed answer is almost always the same: shore up pharmacology. It threads through every organ system on the blueprint, it’s the content most likely to have drifted since you last studied it, and it’s dense enough that a focused pass produces outsized gains. That’s why pairing the two courses works so well.

The PANRE Review Course gives you the breadth — 1,200 questions across the full blueprint, 5 mock exams, and 100 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME. The Pharmacology Review Course gives you the depth exactly where it pays off most — 12.5 focused hours of AAPA Category 1 CME organized class-by-class. Run the pharmacology review first or alongside your board prep, and the drug questions scattered throughout the PANRE bank stop being the ones you dread.

The CME math is worth noting too. Together the two courses total 112.5 hours of AAPA Category 1 credit — comfortably covering a recertification cycle’s requirement while doing the actual work of getting you exam-ready. And both carry the optional Amazon or Apple gift-card add-on ($100–$1,500), so if you have an employer allowance, one combined purchase can cover your prep, your CME, and return real value to you.

There’s no trick here — just leverage. Pharmacology is the weak point most PAs share, board exams test it heavily, and fixing it lifts everything else. Do that alongside a full blueprint review and you walk in genuinely prepared, not just credentialed. Each course is $399.99 for 30 months of access.

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Every Course We Offer: All 14 AAPA Category 1 CME Modules and What Is Inside Each One

If you have been trying to work out which of our courses actually fits the CME you need this year, this is the page to bookmark. Below is every course we offer, what is inside each one, and exactly how many AAPA Category 1 CME credits it awards. Each course is sold separately, and each one stands on its own — you take the module, you earn that module’s credit.

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AAPA Category 1 CME · Enduring Material · Reference CME-2016187

How every course works

All of our courses are enduring material. You work through the lecture videos and the question bank on your own schedule, from any device, with no live session to attend and no travel. To claim credit you complete the module’s graded question bank at 70% or better and submit the course evaluation. Your certificate is issued to you on completion, and PAs log these credits with NCCPA as Category 1. Physicians who take the same activity should claim it as Category 2 CME.

Every question in every bank is board-style, referenced, and written with a full rationale, so a missed question teaches you something rather than just costing you a point.

Recertification and board review

PANRE Review Course

PANRE Review Course — 100 AAPA Category 1 CME credits

Five full-length PANRE practice exams at 240 questions each — 1,200 questions in total — plus the PANRE Study Library. This is the deepest course in the catalog and the one most PAs use to sit the PANRE with a real sense of where they stand. Every exam scores against the same 70% threshold that governs the credit.

PANRE-LA Review Course

PANRE-LA Review Course — 100 AAPA Category 1 CME credits

Built for the Longitudinal Assessment pathway: five full-length exams at 240 questions each — 1,200 questions — plus the PANRE-LA Study Library. If you are taking PANRE-LA rather than the traditional PANRE, this is the course written for that format.

Specialty CME modules

Each specialty module is a 200-question referenced board-style bank paired with recorded lecture video. They are listed here highest credit first.

Emergency Medicine — 25 credits

200 questions plus 5 hours of lecture video covering cardiac and neurologic emergencies, shock, sepsis and trauma, and toxicology, abdominal and vascular emergencies.

Family Medicine — 25 credits

200 questions plus 5 hours of lecture video across the breadth of primary care — the widest-scope module we offer, and the natural fit if you practice in an outpatient setting.

Pediatrics — 25 credits

200 questions plus 5 hours of lecture video spanning newborn through adolescent care, development, and the pediatric presentations that behave nothing like their adult equivalents.

Internal Medicine — 24.5 credits

200 questions plus 4 hours and 30 minutes of lecture video across cardiopulmonary, GI, renal and endocrine, infectious disease, hematology, rheumatology and geriatrics.

Urgent Care — 24.5 credits

200 questions plus 4 hours and 30 minutes of lecture video built around what actually walks through an urgent care door, including where the line sits between urgent care and the emergency department.

Cardiology — 23 credits

200 questions plus 3 hours of lecture video on the cardiovascular system — the single largest content area on the PANCE and PANRE blueprints.

Psychiatry and Behavioral Health — 22.5 credits

200 questions plus 2 hours and 30 minutes of lecture video on mood, anxiety, psychotic and personality disorders, substance use, and the psychiatric presentations that show up in every other setting.

Obstetrics and Gynecology — 22 credits

200 questions plus 2 hours of lecture video across prenatal care, labor and delivery, gynecologic disorders and reproductive health.

Dermatology — 21.75 credits

200 questions plus 1 hour and 45 minutes of lecture video on the rashes, lesions and skin findings that are easy to misname and expensive to miss.

Neurology — 21.5 credits

200 questions plus 1 hour and 30 minutes of lecture video across stroke, seizure, headache, neuromuscular and degenerative disease.

Orthopedics and Musculoskeletal — 21.5 credits

200 questions plus 1 hour and 30 minutes of lecture video on fractures, joint and spine disorders, and the musculoskeletal complaints that fill a clinic schedule.

Pharmacology — 12.5 credits

A focused 120-question pharmacology bank plus 30 minutes of lecture video. The shortest course in the catalog, and the one to reach for when you need pharmacology-specific credit rather than a full specialty review.

Add an Amazon or Apple gift card to any course

Amazon and Apple gift card add-on

This is the part that surprises people. Every course on this page can be purchased with a gift card bundled in, from $100 up to $1,500, in your choice of Amazon or Apple. Select the amount from the add-on menu on the product page before you check out.

It exists for a practical reason. Most PAs have an annual CME allowance from their employer, and most of those allowances expire unused at the end of the year. If your allowance covers the course, the gift card comes back to you as something you actually wanted — a tablet to read on, a laptop, books, or whatever else you would have bought anyway. Gift cards are processed and sent separately after your order.

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Choosing between them

A few rules of thumb from the questions we get most often:

  • Recertifying this cycle? Start with the PANRE or PANRE-LA course, whichever pathway you are on. They carry the most credit and the most practice questions.
  • Need credit that matches your practice? Pick the specialty module you work in. The content is written for a practicing PA, not for a student.
  • Just need to close a gap before a deadline? Pharmacology at 12.5 credits is the fastest complete course in the catalog.
  • Have an employer allowance to spend? Take the module you need and put the rest toward the gift card add-on.

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Accreditation

All fourteen courses above are approved AAPA Category 1 CME, reference number CME-2016187, valid from August 26, 2026 through August 26, 2027, in the enduring material format. The full accreditation statement appears on each individual course page. Credit is awarded per module, at the credit figure listed beside that module above.

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Our Entire Catalog Is Now AAPA Category 1 CME — All 14 Courses

It’s official: every course in the CME Review Courses catalog is now accredited AAPA Category 1 CME. The American Academy of Physician Associates Review Panel has approved our full library as a single enduring activity — Comprehensive Clinical Review for Practicing PAs, 2026–27 — designated for AAPA Category 1 CME across 14 modules, under AAPA reference number CME-2016187.

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This is the biggest change we’ve made in years. Until now, only the PANRE Review Course and the Pharmacology Review Course carried Category 1 credit — every other specialty package was Category 2. As of August 26, 2026, all fourteen modules are Category 1, and every certificate we issue states the precise credit you earned.

One important clarification before you shop. The accreditation covers the entire 14-module program, not any single purchase. Each course you buy awards the credits for that module — listed next to each product below. Claim only the credits commensurate with your actual participation.

The clinical specialty modules

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Each specialty module pairs 200 cited, board-style multiple-choice questions with expert-led lecture video, and each one now carries its own Category 1 designation:

That’s eleven clinical specialty packages, and Pharmacology below makes twelve. Each one is priced at $399.99 with 30 months of access — long enough to cover an entire recertification cycle and then some.

Pharmacology — 12.5 Category 1 credits

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The Pharmacology CME Review Package remains our most efficient module: a 120-question bank organized drug class by drug class, plus 30 minutes of focused lecture video, for up to 12.5 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Pharmacology threads through every organ system on the blueprint and it’s the content most likely to have drifted since you last studied it — which is why it’s the module people come back to year after year.

PANRE and PANRE-LA — 100 Category 1 credits each

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Our two recertification flagships are the heavy hitters of the catalog. Each includes five full-length practice exams at 240 questions apiece — 1,200 questions total — plus a complete Study Library, and each is designated for up to 100 AAPA Category 1 CME credits:

If you’re recertifying by the traditional exam, PANRE is the one. If you’re on the Longitudinal Assessment pathway, PANRE-LA is built around that format. Either way, a single purchase can cover the full 50 Category 1 credits NCCPA requires every two years — with room to spare.

Add an Amazon or Apple gift card to any order — $100 to $1,500

Earn AAPA Category 1 CME credits and add a gift card to your order

The gift card add-on is still here, and it’s still the reason a lot of our customers order in the fall. Most PAs have an annual CME allowance from their employer that expires at the end of the year — and most of those allowances are larger than the cost of a course. Rather than leave that money on the table, you can add an Amazon or Apple gift card to your order in any amount from $100 to $1,500, right on the product page.

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Choose your card and amount from the drop-down before you check out — one order, one receipt for your CME allowance, accredited Category 1 credit, and a gift card in hand. (Note: Best Buy and Lowe’s cards are no longer offered. Amazon and Apple only.)

How you earn the credit

Every module works the same way. Review the module content, complete the post-test with a score of 70% or higher, and complete the activity evaluation. Missed questions may be retaken to reach the passing score. A certificate of completion stating your precise credit is issued as soon as both are done. PAs may log AAPA Category 1 CME toward NCCPA requirements as permitted by NCCPA policy. (Physicians should generally claim this activity as Category 2 CME.)

The accreditation statement

This activity has been reviewed by the American Academy of Physician Associates Review Panel and is compliant with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 468.75 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid from 8/26/2026 to 8/26/2027. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. AAPA reference number: CME-2016187.

Release date: 8/26/2026 · Expiration date: 8/26/2027 · Format: enduring material, delivered online · Target audience: practicing PAs and NPs · Faculty: Jeremy Boroff, MPAS, PA-C, sole faculty, with no relevant financial relationships to disclose · This activity received no commercial support.

Where to start

If you’re due for recertification, start with PANRE or PANRE-LA and you’re essentially done for the cycle. If your credits are current and you want to sharpen a specific area, pick the specialty you practice — or the one you don’t, which is usually where the gaps are. Every course is $399.99 with 30 months of access, every course is now AAPA Category 1, and every course takes the gift card add-on.

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PANRE vs. PANRE-LA: Which Recert Path Fits You, and How to Prep for Each

Recertifying PAs now have a choice that didn’t exist a decade ago: the traditional PANRE, a single proctored exam, or the PANRE-LA (Longitudinal Assessment), which delivers questions in smaller batches over time that you answer from home or office. Both keep you certified. Which one fits depends on how you like to be tested.

The traditional PANRE suits people who prefer to prepare hard, sit one exam, and be done for the cycle. It rewards a concentrated study push and a good sense of pacing across a long block. The PANRE-LA suits people who would rather demonstrate knowledge in a steady drip, with the ability to look things up and learn as they go — but it asks for sustained engagement across the cycle rather than a single sprint. Neither is objectively easier; they reward different temperaments.

Here’s what’s the same either way: you still need to know the material, and you still need CME. That’s where prep does double duty. The PANRE Review Course gives you 100 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME along with 2,500+ blueprint-mapped questions and 3 full-length mock exams. If you choose the traditional PANRE, the mock exams rehearse the format and pacing directly. If you choose PANRE-LA, the same question bank keeps your knowledge sharp across the longitudinal window — and either path, the 100 hours of Category 1 credit counts toward your requirement.

We also offer a dedicated PANRE-LA Review Course for those who want material tuned to the longitudinal format. Whichever path you pick, the smart move is the same: choose the assessment that fits how you work, then let your prep earn your CME at the same time. Both courses are $399.99 for 30 months, with the optional $100–$1,500 Amazon or Apple gift-card add-on.

Compare the PANRE and PANRE-LA courses →

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The 10 Drug Classes PAs Miss Most — and How to Lock Them Down

Certain drug classes show up again and again on the list of things PAs wish they knew cold. They’re high-stakes, detail-dense, and constantly evolving — which is exactly why they’re easy to miss under exam pressure and easy to get rusty on in practice. A quick tour of the usual suspects:

  • Anticoagulants & antiplatelets — DOAC dosing, reversal agents, and bridging still cause the most hesitation.
  • Antibiotics — spectrum, resistance patterns, and the allergy cross-reactivity questions everyone second-guesses.
  • Insulins & antidiabetics — onset/peak profiles and the newer GLP-1 and SGLT2 agents.
  • Antihypertensives — first-line choices by comorbidity and the contraindication traps.
  • Psychotropics — SSRIs/SNRIs, serotonin syndrome, and monitoring.
  • Anticonvulsants — interactions and level monitoring.
  • Steroids & immunosuppressants — tapering and adverse-effect profiles.
  • Opioids & pain management — equivalence and safe prescribing.
  • Anticholinergics — the cumulative-burden questions, especially in older adults.
  • Cardiac agents — digoxin, antiarrhythmics, and their narrow margins.

The fix isn’t cramming — it’s a structured pass that puts these classes side by side so the distinctions stick. The Pharmacology Review Course is organized exactly that way: 12 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME, built class-by-class around the material most likely to be tested and prescribed. You reinforce the whole map, drill the classes you know are soft, and earn documented credit while you do it. It’s $399.99 for 30 months, with the same optional $100–$1,500 Amazon or Apple gift-card add-on.

Sharpen these classes with the Pharmacology Review Course →

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Don’t Let Your Employer CME Allowance Expire: The Gift-Card Add-On, Explained

Most employed PAs have a CME or continuing-education allowance — often a few thousand dollars a year that a group, hospital, or department will reimburse. And most of those allowances share one frustrating feature: use it or lose it. When December arrives and the balance is still sitting there, it doesn’t roll over. It just disappears.

The gift-card add-on on our CME packages exists to solve exactly that. When you buy the PANRE Review Course — 100 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME, 2,500+ questions, and 3 mock exams for $399.99 with 30 months of access — you can add an Amazon or Apple gift card to the same order, anywhere from $100 to $1,500. The purchase is a legitimate CME expense your allowance covers, and the gift card comes back to you as spendable value you keep.

Think about the mechanics. If you have an allowance that expires, every dollar you don’t spend is simply gone. Routing those dollars through a genuine CME purchase — one that also satisfies a big chunk of your recertification requirement — turns money you were about to forfeit into board prep and a gift card. It’s the difference between losing the benefit and getting real use out of it.

A few practical notes: check your employer’s reimbursement policy so you submit the receipt correctly, keep documentation of the CME activity (the course provides it), and choose the gift-card amount that fits your available balance. If your allowance renews annually, this is worth doing every cycle. The credit counts, the prep is real, and the value doesn’t evaporate at year-end.

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The Pharmacology Review Every PA Wishes They’d Done Sooner (Now With a Gift-Card Add-On)

Ask any PA which section quietly costs them the most points — on a board exam or in daily practice — and pharmacology is near the top of the list. Drug classes evolve, interactions multiply, and the details (mechanisms, contraindications, monitoring, black-box warnings) are exactly the kind of thing that fades between the exam that tested it and the patient in front of you today. The Pharmacology Review Course from CME Review Courses is a deliberate, high-yield reset on all of it.

Focused, certifiable, and current

This course is an AAPA Category 1 Self-Assessment CME activity worth 12 hours of credit, built around the medications and drug classes you’re most likely to be tested on and most likely to prescribe. It’s organized by system and class, so you can reinforce the whole picture or drill the areas you know are soft — and the credit posts as documented Category 1 CME you can log toward certification. It pairs naturally with recertification prep: if you’re already working through board review, a dedicated pharmacology pass is the single highest-leverage way to lift a weak content area, and here it does double duty as CME.

The same gift-card add-on applies

Like our other CME packages, the Pharmacology Review Course lets you add an Amazon or Apple gift card to your order — $100 to $1,500. If you have an employer CME allowance that resets every year, this is a clean way to spend money you’d otherwise forfeit and get part of it back as a gift card you actually keep. The course is $399.99 with 30 months of access, and the gift-card add-on is yours to size.

Pharmacology rewards the people who review it before the stakes are high. Whether you’re prepping for the PANRE, closing out a CME cycle, or just want to feel current the next time you weigh an anticoagulant or an antibiotic, twelve focused hours here pays off well beyond the credit.

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PANRE Coming Up? Earn 100 Hours of AAPA Category 1 CME — and Keep a Gift Card for Yourself

If your ten-year cycle is closing in, you’re facing two obligations at once: you have to pass the PANRE, and you have to have logged your CME to stay certified. Most PAs treat those as two separate chores — grind through a question bank for the exam, then scramble to find enough Category 1 credit before the deadline. The PANRE Review Course from CME Review Courses was designed to collapse both into one.

One course, 100 hours of Category 1 credit

The PANRE Review Course is an AAPA Category 1 Self-Assessment CME activity worth 100 hours of credit — enough to cover the large majority of a recertification cycle’s CME requirement on its own. As you work through it, you’re not just rehearsing for exam day; you’re earning documented, certifiable credit. Prep and compliance become the same task. Inside you’ll find 2,500+ board-style questions mapped to the PANRE blueprint with teaching explanations, 3 full-length mock exams so exam day feels familiar, expert-led video on the highest-yield material, and 30 months of access.

The gift-card add-on: put your CME dollars to work

Here’s the part PAs appreciate most. Many of you have an employer CME or education allowance — a set amount your group or hospital reimburses each year that simply expires if you don’t spend it. The PANRE Review Course lets you add an Amazon or Apple gift card to your order, anywhere from $100 to $1,500. You buy the course with funds you were going to lose anyway, and a chunk of that budget comes back to you as a gift card you keep. It’s a completely above-board way to make sure your hard-earned CME benefit doesn’t evaporate at year-end. The course itself is $399.99 for 30 months of access, with the gift-card add-on stacked on top at the amount you choose.

This is built for the practicing PA-C who wants to walk into the PANRE confident, knock out the bulk of their Category 1 CME in the same motion, and get real value back from a benefit they’re entitled to.

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