Practicing Meaningful Medicine — CME Blitz
In personKnoxville, TNKnoxville Academy of Medicine
Cost not published
Local inventory · first pass
First pass, 2026-08-11, researched across six lanes.
TENNESSEE'S CME IS ALMOST ENTIRELY INSTITUTIONAL, AND ITS THREE METRO POLES SIT IN TWO TIME ZONES. Nashville, Memphis and Jackson are Central; Knoxville, Chattanooga, the Tri-Cities and Oak Ridge are Eastern. Every dated row here carries the zone of its own venue, and for the platform rows that is not an inference at all — the publishers' own calendar records declare it. HALF THE STATE'S REGISTRY VOLUME BELONGS TO ORGANISATIONS THAT HOLD NOTHING HERE. Of 2,945 accredited activities, about 1,493 belong to five registrants with no public dated Tennessee activity: a national physician-staffing company in Knoxville that alone holds 24% of the state and publishes only nurse-anaesthetist modules, a hospital group's graduate-medical-education arm whose catalogue is one shared twenty-state listing with no state field, a federally funded eight-state HIV training programme, a national psychiatry publisher with a Memphis mailing address, and a commercial joint-provider operating from a post-office box. Judge this state by its institutions, not by its registry count. THE SOCIETY LAYER PUBLISHES MEETINGS, NOT CREDIT. Fourteen state specialty and county society activities are recorded here and NOT ONE carries an AMA PRA Category 1 designation. Several publish something that looks like one and is not: one prints 'approximately 11 hours of CME' with no category and no accreditor, and another prints a complete accreditation statement whose figure is still the template placeholder 'X.XX'. Credit unknown here means UNPUBLISHED AND NEVER ZERO. TENNESSEE HAS NO ACCREDITOR OF ITS OWN, AND THE TWO THAT REACH IN BARELY DO. The state is absent from the ACCME's list of recognised accreditors; the Southern States CME Collaborative accredits two providers and Georgia's Medical Association exactly one — a Chattanooga system, in the metro that spans the Georgia line, which publishes nothing under its own name. The state medical association is an accredited PROVIDER and not an accreditor, despite wording on its own site that reads as though it were. SEVERAL INSTITUTIONS PUBLISH THEIR CME ON SOMEBODY ELSE'S PLATFORM. A large regional system in the north-east of the state publishes no CME calendar on its own domain at all — every one of its likely paths returns 404 — while its oncology symposium runs, dated and credit-bearing, on a university's catalogue. The same catalogue carries a Chattanooga hospital's neuroscience series and a children's hospital's tele-education programme. A crawler limited to each institution's own website would record three live providers as silent. KNOWN GAPS, RESEARCHED AND ACCEPTED: a children's hospital's session-level calendar sits behind a free-account login, so its weekly grand rounds is recorded on the organisation and not as dated rows; one regional system's CME page is behind a bot-mitigation interstitial that was not rendered and is recorded as unconfirmed rather than empty; the state's largest county societies publish social and governance calendars with no CME; and the surgical chapter's 2026 annual meeting ended days before this pass with no 2027 date posted.
TN is a first pass — local inventory is present but incomplete. Coverage detail →
54 dated in TN · 8 attendable from anywhere · 8 series & catalogs
In personKnoxville, TNKnoxville Academy of Medicine
Cost not published
HybridNew Orleans, LAAmerican Society of HematologySited in LA — attendable remotely
Paid — price on host siteHematology
70 AMA PRA Cat 1
HybridBig Sky, MTSymposia MedicusSited in MT — attendable remotely
Paid — price on host sitePediatrics
16 AMA PRA Cat 1
HybridBig Sky, MTSymposia MedicusSited in MT — attendable remotely
Paid — price on host siteOB/GYN
16 AMA PRA Cat 1
In personFranklin, TNTennessee Radiological Society
Cost not publishedRadiology
In personFranklin, TNTennessee Rheumatology Society
Cost not publishedRheumatology
In personNashville, TNTennessee College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP Chapter)
Cost not publishedEmergency medicine
In personOak Ridge, TNOak Ridge Institute for Science and Education — REAC/TS
Cost not publishedEmergency medicine
In personMemphis, TNMethodist Le Bonheur Healthcare — Continuing Medical Education
Cost not publishedPediatrics
10.75 AMA PRA Cat 1
In personKnoxville, TNDolly Parton Children's Hospital
Cost not publishedPediatrics
HybridMyrtle Beach, SCSkin, Bones, Hearts & Private PartsSited in SC — attendable remotely
Cost not publishedPrimary care
HybridHilton Head Island, SCSkin, Bones, Hearts & Private PartsSited in SC — attendable remotely
Cost not publishedPrimary care
VirtualAANP CE CenterAttend from anywhereSeries / catalog
Member benefits + paid activitiesPrimary care
Credit not stated by host
VirtualACCME CME PassportAttend from anywhereSeries / catalog
Free
Credit not stated by host
Credit not stated by host
VirtualMedscape EducationAttend from anywhereSeries / catalog
Free
Credit not stated by host
Credit not stated by host
VirtualNetCEAttend from anywhereSeries / catalog
Subscription / course fees
Credit not stated by host
VirtualMayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional DevelopmentAttend from anywhereSeries / catalog
Cost not published
Credit not stated by host
VirtualPri-MedAttend from anywhereSeries / catalog
FreePrimary care
Credit not stated by host