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CME in South Carolina

First pass, 2026-08-16.

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

Four research lanes — one of which failed and whose ground was covered directly — plus direct extraction of all three platform tenants. ⭐ SOUTH CAROLINA HAS NO INTRASTATE ACCREDITOR, AND GEORGIA'S FILLS THE VACUUM. The South Carolina Medical Association is an accredited PROVIDER (24 activities) but is not among ACCME's 28 Recognized Accreditors — the list was read live in a browser, because a plain fetch of that page returns a client-rendered shell. Five of the state's twelve registry providers, 62 activities, are accredited by the MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA: McLeod Regional 30, Roper St. Francis 15, Grand Strand 9, Self Regional 6 and The Hawkins Foundation 2. This is the Rhode Island shape with Georgia playing Massachusetts, and it explains a zero that an earlier pass measured without an explanation — the Southern States CME Collaborative has no South Carolina providers because Georgia is already here. ⭐ AND THE ACCREDITOR'S OWN SCOPE STATEMENT CLOSES EXACTLY WITH THE REGISTRY. MAG's accreditation page says verbatim that it accredits organizations authorized to offer credit 'that meet Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee license renewal requirements'. Sweeping provider_accredited_by across eleven states finds MAG providers in exactly those three — Georgia 15, South Carolina 5, Tennessee 1 — and ZERO in North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Kentucky. Two independent sources agree, making this the second state after Alabama whose intrastate layer is closed rather than inferred. The difference is worth keeping: Alabama's accreditor publishes a ROSTER, Georgia's publishes only a SCOPE SENTENCE, and the registry supplies the roster itself. Note also that MAG's declared Tennessee scope is real but DORMANT at 1 provider and 0 activities, which is the explanation the Tennessee pass measured and could not account for. Every state MAG does not reach has an accreditor of its own. ⚠️⚠️ NEITHER OF THIS STATE'S PLATFORM TENANTS IS GUESSABLE FROM THE ORGANIZATION'S CURRENT NAME, AND FIFTEEN NAMESPACE GUESSES FOUND NEITHER. USC School of Medicine Columbia runs CMETracker as `USCSOMPHR` — an initialism ending in the hospital's name — and Prisma Health Upstate runs EthosCE as `ghscme`, from Greenville Health System, the organization's FORMER name. Both were found from the provider's own CME page. That is now two for two here and a repeat of the Tennessee finding, so the provider's own site is the PRIMARY discovery route and the namespace probe is the fallback, not the reverse. MUSC's CloudCME tenant, by contrast, is simply `musc` and yielded 189 unique activities of which only seven are in-person South Carolina conferences, every one in Charleston. ⚠️⚠️ THE ETHOSCE .ics FEED IGNORES ITS OWN MONTH PATH, AND ITS CALENDAR CONTAINS NO CONFERENCES AT ALL. calendar.ics/<YYYY-MM> returns the identical 485 events for every month asked for, so eleven monthly fetches produce 5,335 VEVENTs and 485 unique UIDs — a loop that concatenates without de-duplicating on UID inflates the catalog elevenfold and looks thorough doing it. Worse, all 485 are sessions of 234 departmental series: the six real conferences live only in the separate /courses view. A pass that read the calendar would have concluded this tenant runs no conferences while it runs six, one of them a 24-credit course. ⚠️ AN ACCREDITATION STATEMENT IS NOT A DESIGNATION, AND THE PER-ROW FETCH DOES NOT ALWAYS RESCUE ONE. The standing advice for a CloudCME row whose credit is a bare tag is to fetch its courseoverview page, which states the figure. For two MUSC rows it does not: the overview carries only 'The Medical University of South Carolina is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians' — the provider's standing permission to award credit, not this activity's allocation. Both are recorded as credit unknown. ⚠️ AND TWO FIELDS CARRIED CONTENT THE PARSER DOES NOT READ. A CMETracker row whose CreditElig is null, and which the extractor therefore reports as credit-missing, says in its Notes field that 'AMA credit and hours of attendance will be awarded; the exact amount will be determined and posted once the agenda is finalized' — credit affirmed but not quantified, a third state alongside a missing designation and a published 0.00. And a row with FacCity, FacState, FacAddress and FacZip ALL null publishes its city in the `Room` field instead: the state trauma symposium is in Myrtle Beach while every other row on that tenant is in Columbia, so a default to the tenant's home city would have mis-sited it by 150 miles. A null venue field is not an unpublished venue. ⚠️ AAFP PRESCRIBED CREDIT IS NOT AN AMA PRA CATEGORY 1 DESIGNATION, AND THE PUBLISHER SAYS SO OUTRIGHT. Three activities here carry the sentence 'AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™' — an equivalence claim, not a designation — and the AHEC pages add the decisive line: 'When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.' A page containing the string 'AMA PRA Category 1' is not thereby an AMA PRA Category 1 activity. The same discipline keeps the osteopathic society's 20 AOA Category 1-A credits and the PA academy's pending AAPA Category 1 out of the physician-credit count. TWO OF THE STATE'S SPECIALTY SOCIETIES HOLD THEIR ANNUAL MEETING IN ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA — the Neurological Association at the Crowne Plaza and the Society of Pathologists at the Omni Grove Park Inn — so both are filed as North Carolina rows with South Carolina organizations. In the other direction the coast pulls meetings in: Kiawah Island, Hilton Head Island, Charleston, Myrtle Beach and Isle of Palms host conferences run from Illinois, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, California and Ottawa. Nine South Carolina-sited rows already existed here before this pass began, banked by the North Carolina and Tennessee passes. ⚠️ AND THIS PASS CORRECTED ONE OF THEM, IN A WAY WORTH REUSING. The Carolinas Cancer Conference was seeded from North Carolina as 'credit unknown'. Its registration page says verbatim 'This program will not offer continuing education credits'. The standing 'unknown, not zero' rule protects a page that is SILENT about credit; this page makes an affirmative negative statement, and recording that as an unknown tells the reader credit might yet appear when the publisher has said it will not. THE SOCIETY LAYER IS HOSTED RATHER THAN SELF-PUBLISHED, WHICH IS WHAT A STATE WITHOUT ITS OWN ACCREDITOR LOOKS LIKE FROM THE INSIDE. The Medical Association staffs and publishes several specialty societies' meetings on its own calendar; the Rheumatism Society's annual meeting is a course on MUSC's tenant; the Neurological Association's is a course on Greenville's; and the Psychiatric Association's own page advertises 'more than 15 hours of lectures', which is not a credit designation, while the real 12.50 AMA PRA designation for that same meeting sits on the Greenville tenant. A society with a thin website can still have a fully designated meeting — on the accrediting provider's platform. SOUTH CAROLINA AHEC SITS AT THE NORTH CAROLINA POLE BUT DOES NOT PAY OFF LIKE IT. It runs one statewide Learning Portal across all four regional centres, and its Continuing Professional Development catalog is a single server-rendered page of 149 courses — but the catalog is overwhelmingly nursing certification review, SANE, fetal monitoring, social work, counselling and physical therapy. Only 17 of the 149 detail pages mention AMA PRA at all, most of those enduring online modules, and the only live physician-facing activities are two ALSO courses. The listing page itself contains zero credit strings, which was checked against a positive before being believed: all 149 detail pages were fetched and 17 came back positive, so the null is a property of the listing view and not of the reader. The health department is at the North Carolina pole too — its provider training offers only 'free continued education credits' with no designation named — and note the agency has been renamed, so a pass looking for SC DHEC finds a redirect rather than the Department of Public Health. CREDIT COMPOSITION, COUNTED AS A PINNED SET RATHER THAN A SUBSTRING MATCH: NINETEEN of the sixty-one rows added carry a verified AMA PRA Category 1 figure, eighteen of them South Carolina-sited — fourteen dated conferences and webinars with a designation statement, three recurring series with a published per-session figure, and one enduring activity. The count is a literal list of row ids, not a search for the phrase in prose, because counting rows whose prose MENTIONS 'AMA PRA Category 1' is the defect that inflated Alabama's figure to seventeen and Illinois's to 120 against a true 59. WHAT IS NOT HERE. Four registry providers publish nothing learner-facing at all — McLeod Regional (30 activities, confirmed by full sitemap enumeration), Spartanburg Regional (21, and its public CE department is explicitly nursing and allied health), AnMed (11, whose eight CME subpages are all planner-facing) and Self Regional (6) — which is 68 registry activities yielding no rows. The Greenville County Medical Society's calendar is login-walled, so it is UNREAD rather than empty. MUSC's CMETracker namespace returns a persistent 503 across four attempts and two product paths while known-live tenants return 200 and five plausible fake tenants return 404, so it is a routed namespace that is erroring rather than an absent one; its CloudCME tenant bounds the exposure. Eleven societies are dates-TBA with a known season rather than inactive, and the Symposia Medicus high-risk-pregnancy conference at Hilton Head in November 2027 is deliberately unseeded because its own page publishes neither venue nor credit. ⚠️ AN ADVERSARIAL REVIEW OF THIS PASS CORRECTED TWENTY-NINE ROWS' AUDIENCES, IN BOTH DIRECTIONS, AND THE CREDIT FIGURES SURVIVED IT UNCHANGED. Twenty-seven rows claimed nurse practitioners or physician assistants on pages that name neither — the Alabama over-claim recurring, and this time the row's own note had recorded the weakness ('PA is claimed on the strength of the CloudCME audience list') while citing a field that does not exist on those pages. A hedge written into the prose is not a substitute for not making the claim. Two rows were corrected the OTHER way and are the more instructive half: the osteopathic society's conference was shipped DO-only because its credit is AOA Category 1-A, while its page says it is 'designed for Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine, MD Physicians … as well as Advance Practice Providers' — THE CREDIT SYSTEM IS NOT THE AUDIENCE — and a hospital's series row said no audience was published when the page carries a heading reading 'Target audience' that names nurse practitioners and physician assistants outright. The review also found two quotations attributed to the wrong place: an accreditation sentence quoted with an office name spliced into it, and an audience line that exists on its page only INSIDE AN HTML COMMENT. Both are fabricated quotations even though every word of each exists somewhere. And it found an UNDER-claim, which is the same defect facing the other way: both ALSO courses publish 'up to 8.0 AAFP Prescribed credit' and were recorded as having no published hour count.

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  1. NO CONTINUING EDUCATION IS OFFERED. The publisher's own registration page states verbatim under 'CE Information': 'This program will not offer continuing education credits'. ⚠️ THIS ROW PREVIOUSLY READ 'credit unknown', WHICH WAS WRONG IN A SPECIFIC AND REUSABLE WAY: the standing 'unknown, not zero' rule covers a page that is SILENT about credit, and this page is not silent — it makes an affirmative negative statement. An affirmative 'no credit offered' and an absent designation are different states, and recording the first as the second over-claims to the reader that credit might yet appear. Verified by direct fetch during the South Carolina pass (2026-08-16). The conference itself is real, future-dated and jointly run by the North Carolina Oncology Association and the South Carolina Oncology Society at Wild Dunes, Isle of Palms; its stated eligibility is 'Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, administrators, social workers, and office managers in oncology practices or universities (excluding industry employees)'.

  2. Credit verbatim from the CMETracker catalog: 'AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ - 15.50' plus 'Hours of Attendance - 15.50'. ⚠️ The CreditElig value arrives TRUNCATED mid-tag (ending '</l'), the documented CMETracker trap — a regex requiring the closing tag returns EMPTY and the scope filter then fails OPEN. Target audience verbatim: 'Primary Care Providers who want to include ultrasound in their diagnostic tool box.' That is a published audience and it is NOT physician-restricted, which is why NP and PA are claimed; the fee tiers (Physician $1,500, Physician Associate $1,100, Nurse Practitioner $1,100, Resident $800) corroborate but a fee tier is not itself a designated-audience statement. ⚠️ All five offerings share the SAME verbatim title, unlike the CMETracker repeat case where 15 offerings had 15 distinct titles — so an exact-title de-duplication silently collapses them and a family-based one silently keeps five.

  3. ⚠️ THE DESIGNATION SENTENCE IS PUBLISHED WITH THE HOUR COUNT BLANK: 'The American College of Surgeons designates this live activity for a maximum of x.xx AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™' (the page prints the placeholder as 'x.xx'; an earlier version of this note rendered it as '___', which was a paraphrase of a blank rather than the blank the page actually prints), alongside 'Please check back for accreditation updates.' The allocation is not set — this is a third distinct not-a-number state, alongside a wholly missing designation and a published 0.00. Joint-providership statement verbatim: 'This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American College of Surgeons and the SC Urological Association. The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.' ⚠️ The meetings host 403s a plain fetcher and answers curl. AUDIENCE (corrected in adversarial review, 2026-08-16): The accreditation page carries joint providership and an unset hour count. No audience. A PA-C serving on the association's board is not a designated audience.

  4. CREDIT NOT PUBLISHED — the catalog index leaves the credit cell empty and the detail page states no hours. Unknown, not zero. Audience verbatim: 'Neurology (as well as Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Radiology, Surgery, USC SOMG)' with practicing physicians, fellows, residents, allied health, EMS, medical students, nurse practitioners and physician assistants named.

  5. CREDIT AFFIRMED BUT NOT YET QUANTIFIED. ⚠️ THIS ROW'S CREDIT STATE LIVES OUTSIDE THE FIELD THE PARSER READS: its CMETracker `CreditElig` is null, so the extractor reports amaCreditState 'missing', but the row's own `Notes` field says verbatim 'AMA credit and hours of attendance will be awarded; the exact amount will be determined and posted once the agenda is finalized.' That is a THIRD state, distinct from a missing designation and from a published 0.00 — read Notes before concluding a CMETracker row carries no AMA credit. Target audience verbatim: 'Physicians, healthcare professionals, community-based organizations, advocates, patients, families, caregivers, policymakers, etc.' — physicians are named and no NP or PA is, so the audience is MD/DO. Fee tiers are 'MD, DO, PhD: $50.00' and 'Nurses,Social Workers,Hlthcare Providers: $25.00'; a fee tier is not a designated-audience statement.

  6. Credit verbatim: 'AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ - 10.50' plus 'Hours of Attendance - 10.50'. Target audience verbatim: 'Physicians, Nurses, EMS and Trauma Care Professionals' — no NP or PA is named, so the audience is MD/DO. ⚠️ THE CITY FOR THIS ROW IS PUBLISHED IN A DIFFERENT FIELD FROM EVERY OTHER ROW ON THE TENANT: `FacCity`, `FacState`, `FacAddress` and `FacZip` are ALL null, so the extractor prints '(no venue)', while the `Room` field carries 'Myrtle Beach, SC'. A null FacCity is not an unpublished city. Every other row on this tenant is Columbia, so defaulting to the tenant's home city would have mis-sited this conference by 150 miles.

  7. NO credit designation is published on the events page. Unknown, not zero. Audience is interventional radiologists and related medical professionals. ⚠️ The registration link on the publisher's page is a STALE PRIOR-YEAR SLUG (it still reads '2025-southeastern-angiographic-society-annual-meeting-1'), so the events page URL is carried here rather than that link.

  8. APA Women's Leadership Institute

    HybridWashington, DCAmerican Psychiatric AssociationSited in DC — attendable remotely

    Paid — price on host sitePsychiatry

    Register on host site ↗Add to calendarDetails

    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.

  9. NO CREDIT DESIGNATION IS PUBLISHED for the 2026 meeting on either the ACP chapter page or the South Carolina Medical Association's mirror of it; the 2025 page said only that CME and MOC credit could be claimed on completing an evaluation survey. Unknown, not zero. The abstract competition is separately 'open to ACP South Carolina Residents and Medical Students' and is not itself a CME activity. AUDIENCE (corrected in adversarial review, 2026-08-16): The chapter page publishes dates, venue and an abstract competition. No audience.

  10. NO credit designation is published on the meeting page. Unknown, not zero. Dates verbatim: 'The AAIM 134th Annual Meeting will take place from Sunday, October 18, to Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at The Mills House Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina.' Weekday check: 2026-10-18 is a Sunday, confirming the year. ⚠️ The organisation's secretariat is in OTTAWA, ONTARIO — an out-of-country host meeting in South Carolina.

  11. NO CREDIT DESIGNATION OF ANY KIND IS PUBLISHED. Unknown, not zero. ⚠️ A KEYWORD SCAN FOR 'credit' ON THIS PAGE RETURNS ONLY FALSE POSITIVES — historic and federal tax credits in a building-renovation story, a physician 'credited with saving many lives', and social-media content shared 'without credit'. Scan for a designation sentence, never for the word 'credit'. Audience verbatim: 'rural healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, educators and community leaders' — a broad audience that does not designate a clinician group, which is why the professions list is MD/DO.

  12. Spotlight: Primary Care 2027

    In personGreenville, SCUniversity of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville

    Physicians $150; Advanced Practice Providers $100; other care team $25; medical students and residents freePrimary care

    Register on host site ↗Add to calendarDetails

    ⚠️ THIS ACTIVITY CARRIES AAFP PRESCRIBED CREDIT, NOT AN AMA PRA CATEGORY 1 DESIGNATION, and the hour count is not yet published. The page's sentence is an EQUIVALENCE claim, not a designation: 'AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award.' The AAFP's own wording elsewhere settles the distinction outright — 'When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.' A page containing the string 'AMA PRA Category 1' is not thereby an AMA PRA Category 1 activity. Audience verbatim: 'Practicing Physicians, Fellows, and Residents; Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants; Clinical Support Staff at Primary Care Practices.'

  13. ⚠️ OSTEOPATHIC CREDIT, NOT AMA PRA. Designation verbatim: 'a maximum of 20 Category 1-A AOA CME credits'. AOA Category 1-A is the osteopathic credit system and is a different credit from AMA PRA Category 1 — note also that a substring match on 'Category 1' matches BOTH, which is exactly why the CMETracker extractor is documented to match the CSS class rather than that substring. Audience verbatim: 'Who Should Attend? This conference is designed for Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine, MD Physicians, Residents and Medical Students, as well as Advance Practice Providers and Allied Health Professionals.' ⚠️ An earlier version of this row was DO-only, reasoning from the AOA credit system. THE CREDIT SYSTEM IS NOT THE AUDIENCE. AUDIENCE (corrected in adversarial review, 2026-08-16): ⚠️ AN INVERSE ERROR, AND THE MORE INSTRUCTIVE ONE. Re-fetched 2026-08-16, verbatim: 'Who Should Attend? This conference is designed for Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine, MD Physicians, Residents and Medical Students, as well as Advance Practice Providers and Allied Health Professionals.' The row was DO-only because its CREDIT is AOA Category 1-A. THE CREDIT SYSTEM IS NOT THE AUDIENCE — an osteopathic designation does not make a conference osteopath-only, and this page names MDs and APPs outright.

  14. CREDIT UNKNOWN — hours are not published. ⚠️ THIS ROW IS THE COUNTER-EXAMPLE TO THE STANDING 'BARE CREDIT TAG → FETCH THE OVERVIEW PAGE' ADVICE. The CloudCME listing carries no hour count, and the per-row courseoverview fetch returns only an ACCREDITATION statement — 'The Medical University of South Carolina is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians' — with NO designation sentence anywhere on it. An accreditation statement says the provider may award credit; a designation says how much THIS activity awards. They are different sentences and only the second is a number. Unknown, not zero. AUDIENCE (corrected in adversarial review, 2026-08-16): No Target Audience section anywhere; the overview is topic prose plus an accreditation statement.

  15. NO credit designation and NO registration URL are published. Unknown, not zero. The society's own site carries only a 2027 save-the-date image with no dates, venue or CME detail — the South Carolina Medical Association's calendar is the only source with the dates, which is the recurring shape of this state's society layer. Weekday check: 2027-03-12 is a Friday, consistent with the published Friday-to-Sunday pattern. AUDIENCE (corrected in adversarial review, 2026-08-16): The SCMA calendar entry is a save-the-date: date and venue only, no audience, no credit.

  16. NO credit designation is published. The academy's own site says its exact dates and CME credit are NOT FINALISED and refers only to 'opportunities for Continuing Medical Education' — which is not a designation. Unknown, not zero. Weekday check: 2027-04-09 is a Friday. AUDIENCE (corrected in adversarial review, 2026-08-16): Same SCMA save-the-date template as AAISSC, and the sibling row SCACVPR was already MD/DO on identical evidence — the inconsistency was the tell.

  17. Credit not yet published. ⚠️ THE SAME PAGE PUBLISHES TWO DIFFERENT START DATES: the banner reads 'April 10-14, 2027' and the body text reads 'April 11-14, 2027'. This row carries the body-text dates and records the contradiction rather than silently picking a side; it needs a re-poll before the meeting.

  18. CREDIT UNKNOWN — the overview page publishes only MUSC's ACCREDITATION statement and no designation, and states verbatim '**Registration Opening Soon**', so the allocation is not set. Unknown, not zero. Audience: MD/DO only — no target-audience statement naming nurse practitioners or physician assistants is published for this activity, and the Louisiana standard applies.

  19. NO credit designation is published — the page says only 'Registration and more details coming soon!' ⚠️ PHYSICIAN RELEVANCE IS UNCONFIRMED: this association's audience is largely rehabilitation and nursing professionals, and no physician designation was found. It is carried because the South Carolina Medical Association publishes it on its own calendar, not because a physician audience was verified. Weekday check: 2027-04-23 is a Friday.