Category: CME & Recertification

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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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