(a) All licensees shall complete 40 (forty) hours of continuing education every two years. All continuing education hours shall be earned within two years prior to the license expiration date. There shall be no carryover of hours from one renewal period to another.
(b) The content of continuing education activities shall help individual podiatric physicians to carry out his or her professional responsibilities more effectively and efficiently.
(c) Examples of appropriate content include, but are not limited to the following: - (i) clinical medicine and surgery topics,
- (ii) risk management associated with patient care (e.g., understanding of and proper documentation of complications, effective communication with patients, and informed consent),
- (iii) medical and professional ethics,
- (v) epidemiology and related issues.
(d) Approved courses to meet the continuing education requirement shall include: - (i) Programs approved by the American Podiatric Medical Association and their affiliated organizations,
- (ii) Programs approved for Category 1 credit of the American Medical Association, and their affiliated organizations,
- (iii) Programs by sponsors approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education to conduct continuing education,
- (iv) Self-directed learning where there is an examination involved in the learning, so long as the self-directed learning complies with the requirements of Section 7(b) below. This may include tapes, journals, articles, books, or websites.
- (v) The Wyoming Board of Registration in Podiatry may approve additional educational programs.