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CME in North Carolina

First pass, 2026-08-10, researched across six lanes.

Full coverage note — what was researched, and what the gaps are

READ THE ACCREDITATION POINT FIRST, because getting it backwards misdescribes half the state: NORTH CAROLINA'S INTRASTATE CME PROVIDERS ARE ACCREDITED BY THE SOUTHERN STATES CME COLLABORATIVE, NOT BY THE ACCME DIRECTLY. The North Carolina Medical Society was itself an ACCME Recognized Accreditor until 1 April 2024, when it relinquished that status to the SSCC, which is now the Recognized Accreditor. Twelve of the state's twenty-four registered providers sit under the SSCC, ten hold ACCME accreditation directly and two hold Joint Accreditation. All of them designate genuine AMA PRA Category 1 credit; a reader who assumes 'ACCME or nothing' will wrongly discount the AHEC network and most community hospitals. THE STRUCTURAL FACT ABOUT THIS STATE is its AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS NETWORK: nine regional AHECs, six of them accredited providers in their own right and three issuing credit under a parent's accreditation (Northwest through Wake Forest, Eastern through Brody at East Carolina, South Piedmont through Atrium Health). Together they publish more dated physician activity than the state's medical schools do, and they are where a clinician in a smaller North Carolina city actually finds CME. Two of the nine were renamed and are still widely referred to by their old names: Charlotte AHEC is now SOUTH PIEDMONT AHEC and Greensboro AHEC is now PIEDMONT AHEC. THE SECOND PATTERN, and the one most likely to mislead: NORTH CAROLINA'S SOCIETIES REPEATEDLY HOLD THEIR ANNUAL MEETINGS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, and several specialties are not organised per state at all but as bi-state 'Carolinas' bodies — endocrinology and pain medicine each have a single Carolinas society, while cardiology, otolaryngology, surgery and oncology run joint NC/SC meetings that alternate or sit in South Carolina. The psychiatric association and the physician associates' academy both meet at Myrtle Beach, and the orthopaedic association meets at a Virginia resort. Every out-of-state activity in this tranche carries its TRUE venue state and deliberately does NOT answer a North Carolina search. CREDIT COVERAGE IS PARTIAL AND MUST NOT BE GENERALISED: 28 of the 95 seeded activities carry a quoted AMA PRA Category 1 hour count. The rest are unknown, NEVER zero — and the distinction is real, because exactly one activity here publishes a genuine explicit zero ('This event does not offer continuing education credits'). Where hour counts do exist they are concentrated in the platform layer: Duke's catalog and the AHEC API state them outright, while most societies publish dates with no accreditation statement at all. Some publish credit as 'applied for' or literally as 'TBD', and neither is counted as verified. Beware three profession-specific credit types that are NOT AMA PRA Category 1 and are labelled as such on the row: AAFP Prescribed for the family physicians, AAPA Category 1 for the physician associates, and ANCC contact hours for the nurse practitioner symposium. Closed-registration activities are deliberately excluded: the AHEC catalog flags them as 'private contracted' and Duke labels them 'not taking additional attendees', and routing a clinician to a course that cannot be joined is worse than omitting it. KNOWN GAPS, all researched rather than assumed. The University of North Carolina School of Medicine has 241 registered activities and publishes essentially none of them: its own office states it 'does not have a comprehensive listing of CME activities at UNC', and its credit portal and events feed both return empty. Its real volume — around a hundred regularly scheduled series across forty departments — is only reachable department by department, and one conference is all that could be verified. Novant Health, Cone Health, FirstHealth, Catawba Valley, WakeMed, ECU Health and UNC Health Rex are all real providers publishing no readable dated catalog; FirstHealth's is a frozen Padlet board with no dates on it, and Novant's CME host resolves in public DNS while refusing connections. Piedmont AHEC is an accredited provider whose entire current catalog of 64 activities carries no AMA PRA Category 1 credit at all, which leaves the Greensboro area the thinnest academic layer in the state. Two state psychiatric hospitals and an otolaryngology research institute are accredited but publish nothing public, the last of those behind an expired certificate. The county layer is nearly silent: the medical society's own directory lists nineteen societies, nine of which have never had a website, and only two publish a forward calendar — while one that genuinely ran a primary-care CME conference has had it 'postponed' since 2018. Unlike some states, North Carolina's Division of Public Health publishes no clinician education and no events calendar, and the state's federally recognised tribe maintains a current health calendar that is entirely community-facing. No North Carolina society could be verified for neurosurgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, nephrology, thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, geriatrics, hospital medicine or preventive medicine; for the first two, the relevant national bodies state outright that no active North Carolina society exists. Two societies exist but could not be read from their own domains — anesthesiology and medical genetics, both behind broken certificates — and carry no events here as a result. Finally, THE RESEARCH TRIANGLE TRAP: several NATIONAL bodies are accredited providers headquartered in North Carolina, including the American Society of Echocardiography, the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, the Society for Translational Oncology and the Trauma Center Association of America, and the state also hosts the largest online CE vendor in the registry. None of them is a North Carolina state body and none is listed as one.

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85 dated in NC · 8 attendable from anywhere · 8 series & catalogs

  8. New Hanover-Pender County Medical Society Summer Social

    In personNCNew Hanover-Pender County Medical Society

    Cost not published

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    Credit unknown — no accreditation statement published. CITY DELIBERATELY OMITTED: the society's feed names the venue 'Ponysaurus Brewing' with no street address, and that brewery operates several North Carolina taprooms including one in Wilmington, so no single city can be asserted from the name alone. Wilmington is the likeliest given the society's own base; it is left unstated rather than guessed.

  9. 2026 North Carolina Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons Annual Meeting

    In personGreensboro, NCNorth Carolina Society of Eye Physicians and Surgeons

    Cost not publishedOphthalmology

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    Credit unknown — no statement on either the society page or the registration site. END DATE CONFLICT recorded: NCMS says 11-12 September, the AAO's state-society list says 11-13. The AAO page also misprints the venue state as SC; Greensboro is in North Carolina, and the publisher is trusted over the third party.

  13. 2026 South Carolina Society of Pathologists Annual Meeting

    In personAsheville, NCSouth Carolina Society of Pathologists

    Cost not publishedPathology

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    NO CREDIT DESIGNATION IS PUBLISHED on either scsp.org or the South Carolina Medical Association's calendar entry. Unknown, not zero. ⭐ STATE NOTE: a South Carolina society meeting sited in North Carolina — the venue determines the state. Meeting contact is staffed by the SCMA (April Koon, aprilkoon@scmedical.org), which is how a society with a thin site still has a readable meeting record. AUDIENCE (corrected in adversarial review, 2026-08-16): No audience on the SCMA mirror or the society's own page. This row is NC-sited, which is why the audience map missed it — see the map's new closure.

  37. APA Women's Leadership Institute

    HybridWashington, DCAmerican Psychiatric AssociationSited in DC — attendable remotely

    Paid — price on host sitePsychiatry

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    UNKNOWN, not zero, and deliberately not assumed. The APA is ACCME-accredited and is DC's largest registrant at 808 activities, but this event's own page carries NO credit figure, NO AMA PRA Category 1 designation and NO accreditation statement — the full agenda is published and the credit section simply does not exist. Audience published as 'all individuals who are passionate about supporting, developing, and championing women leaders in medicine, including: Medical Students, Residents & Fellows, Practicing Physicians, Academic Faculty, Department & Division Leaders, Physician Executives, Health System Leaders, Researchers' — physicians throughout, with no nurse-practitioner or physician-assistant category, so neither is claimed.

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