2013 CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES
All required points must be accrued between the date of initial certification and five (5) years later, for example between 6/3/2008 and 6/3/2013. Continuing education may be received or presented at a national, regional, state or local veterinary meeting. Keep track of accumulated points using the continuing education worksheet/s as needed. These must be submitted with all of the other documentations.
If you choose to meet the recertification requirements by continuing education, you must accumulate 60 POINTS in a combination of any of the following ways:
20 points minimum - Attending lectures or labs on subjects related Internal Medicine.
- 1 point per hour for attending a lecture
- 2 points per hour for attending a lab
- Required documentation: certificate of attendance
10 points maximum - Attending lectures or labs on subjects related to general veterinary medicine.
- 1 point per hour for attending a lecture related to general veterinary medicine.
- 2 points per hour for attending a lab related to general veterinary medicine.
- Required documentation: certificate of attendance
15 points maximum - Reading journal articles on subjects related to internal medicine, attending webinars and from attending in house training in internal medicine.
- 1 point for reading an article related to veterinary internal medicine in a journal.
- 1 point for first hour and 0.5 points for each additional hour for attending webinar related to veterinary internal medicine
- 1 point per hour attending in house training in veterinary internal medicine
- Required documentation: summary of journal article (include journal title, date, volume and title of article), certificate of completion for webinars, certificate of attendance for in-housetraining.
40 points maximum - Writing on the subject of veterinary internal medicine and having your work published in a newsletter, journal or book chapter, by lecturing or instructing in a lab or by holding office or serving on a committee.
- 2 points per newsletter article published
- 20 points for a journal article published
- 30 points for a book chapter published
- 5 points per hour for lecturing at a meeting, or per hour and per class at a college of veterinary medicine or veterinary technology program.
- 5 points per hour for being a lab instructor at a meeting, or per hour and per class at a college of veterinary medicine or veterinary technology program.
- 3 points per hour for being a lab assistant at a meeting, or per hour and per class at a college of veterinary medicine or veterinary technology program.
- 10 points per year for holding office or serving as a committee chair of AIMVT.
- 5 points per year for serving on a committee of AIMVT. A letter from the Chair is required stating that you actively participated in the duties of the committee.
Required documentation: copy of published article or book chapter, meeting program highlighting your lecture/lab, letter from lead institutional instructor indicating your participation in lecture/lab (as applicable to above points)
