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Closing Your CME Cycle: 12.5 Pharmacology Hours That Count

It happens to conscientious PAs all the time: the cycle is nearly closed, most of the credit is in, and there’s still a gap of a dozen or so Category 1 hours to fill before the deadline. The instinct is to grab whatever’s fastest — but “fastest” and “worthwhile” don’t have to be at odds. A focused pharmacology review closes the gap with credit that actually improves your practice.

The Pharmacology Review Course is well-suited to exactly this moment: 12.5 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME, organized class by class so you can move efficiently and knock out the requirement without a scramble. Unlike a filler webinar you’ll forget by next week, this is the content area most likely to have drifted since you last studied it — so the hours you need to log double as a genuine refresh on the drugs you prescribe.

There’s a practical bonus if you have an employer CME allowance with a matching deadline: the course’s optional $100–$1,500 Amazon or Apple gift-card add-on lets you spend down a use-it-or-lose-it balance on the same order, so you close your credit gap and capture your allowance in one move. It’s $499.99 with 30 months of access — plenty of time to also revisit the material after the deadline passes.

Finishing a cycle shouldn’t mean settling for credit that teaches you nothing. Twelve focused pharmacology hours check the box and leave you sharper. If your deadline is coming, this is a clean way to close it out.

Close your cycle with 12 CME hours →

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Turn Recertification Into a Done-in-One CME Cycle

Recertification asks two things of you across the cycle: keep your CME current, and eventually pass the PANRE. Handled separately, that’s a lot of scattered effort — a webinar here, a conference there, a question bank in the final stretch, and a scramble to confirm the credit adds up before the deadline. Handled together, it’s one project with a clear finish line.

The consolidation comes from a simple fact: the PANRE Review Course is itself 100 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME. When you work through it, the studying is the credit. There’s no separate hunt for enough Category 1 hours, no worrying that your prep “doesn’t count.” The 1,200 blueprint-mapped questions and 5 mock exams that get you exam-ready also fill the large majority of your cycle’s requirement, all documented and ready to log.

Think about what that removes from your year: the mental overhead of tracking two obligations, the last-minute credit scramble, the duplicated effort. Start the course early in your cycle — you get 30 months of access — and you can spread the work at a comfortable pace, knowing that every hour serves both goals at once. By the time you’re ready to sit the exam, your CME is essentially handled.

That’s the whole idea: one deliberate effort, two requirements satisfied. And with the optional $100–$1,500 Amazon or Apple gift-card add-on, an employer allowance can cover it while returning value to you. It’s $499.99 for 30 months. Recertification doesn’t have to be two chores — make it one.

Make recert a done-in-one cycle →