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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

  42. Skin, Bones, Hearts & Private Parts — Myrtle Beach 2027

    HybridMyrtle Beach, SCSkin, Bones, Hearts & Private PartsSited in SC — attendable remotely

    Cost not publishedPrimary care

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    Joint accreditation verbatim: 'Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.' ⚠️ THE DESIGNATION DEFERS TO A CHART: 'The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of credits as listed in the chart below' — and the chart is not extractable without a browser, so the 2027 hour total is UNKNOWN. The prior year's marketed 'up to 26 CME credits' has deliberately NOT been carried across. ⚠️ PUBLISHER TYPO: the site's own navigation reads 'Myrtle Beach, FL' on every page while the conference page, breadcrumb and the venue address (9800 Queensway Blvd, Myrtle Beach, SC 29572) all say South Carolina. SC is correct.

  43. Skin, Bones, Hearts & Private Parts — Hilton Head Island 2027

    HybridHilton Head Island, SCSkin, Bones, Hearts & Private PartsSited in SC — attendable remotely

    Cost not publishedPrimary care

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    Same joint accreditation and same chart-deferred designation as the Myrtle Beach conference — the 2027 hour total is UNKNOWN and the prior year's marketed figure has not been carried across. Venue: 130 Shipyard Drive, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928.

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