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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I’ve always believed that any CAMPEP approved CEU that has the words, “breast” “mammography” etc. are valid for complying with MQSA continuing education requirements. I’m sure that in my 30 years of performing
mammography surveys, I’ve put that belief to the test. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A quick inquiry to the MQSA hotline would yield a definitive and guaranteed accurate answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Intl_DxMedPhys] Mammography CE question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:.75pt"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:white">Happy Friday! Question for everyone. We had a comment in the Spring Clinical Meeting survey where someone was upset that there weren’t 5 hours of mammography credit
offered. We always have 5 hours in the mammography track, though this past year<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Question for everyone. We had a comment in the Spring Clinical Meeting survey where someone was upset that there weren’t 5 hours of mammography credit offered. We always have
5 hours in the mammography track, though this past year there was a 2 hr session on Breast MR, which was coded in CAMPEP as “Diagnostic Radiology: Mammography.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">These CAMPEP transcripts are all I’ve ever used for MQSA inspections, and I’ve never had any issues with an inspector not counting something because the title references something
other than the strict “radiography of the breast” definition of mammography. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Have people had issues with inspectors on this?</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"> We’re obviously trying to serve attendees’ needs
at the meeting, but I wasn’t aware there were any issues with non-x-ray of the breast sessions counting for CME since the guidance seems pretty cut and dried. One could conceivably even claim credits for non-breast imaging sessions if you wanted to try to
convince an inspector that those were anticipated to help you in your role as a medical physicist, though I usually just try to keep 15 hrs of CAMPEP coded mammo credits to avoid having those kinds of arguments.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Curious to hear other people’s experiences on this.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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