Continuing Education

• Active License: Thirty-two (32) [total] continuing education (CE) hours are annually required to maintain an active license to practice Naturopathic Medicine as follows:
  

  • Twenty (20) hours of general education that promotes competency and skills necessary to maintain the highest standard of naturopathic medical care, including a minimum of the following mandatory continuing education.
  • Pain management education as required by ORS 413.590 as follows:
     
  • Naturopathic physicians who receive their initial license in 2022, must complete and report one credit hour of pain management education during the 2022 annual renewal cycle.
  • One (1) credit hour of pain management every odd number calendar year
     
  • One (1) hour of cultural competency education as required by ORS 676.850 every even number calendar year.
  • Two (2) hours of medical ethics or suicide intervention and prevention.
  • Ten (10) hours of pharmacology.
    

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List of Board Pre-Approved Continuing Education Programs and Courses (do not need board review/approval):  

• American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) - Annual Convention
• Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
• Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE)
  
• Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME) Residencies
• National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM)
• North American Naturopathic Continuing Education Accreditation Council (NANCEAC)
• Oregon Association of Naturopathic Physicians (OANP) - Annual and Quarterly Conferences
• Oregon Board of Pharmacy
  
• Oregon Health Authority - Pain Management - Cultural Competency
  
• Oregon Medical Board - Medical, Osteopathic approved education only

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Apply for Continuing Education Credit / Please email the CE application along with the required documentation:

Oregon Licensee ND Application for CE Credit

Provider application for One-Time Event / Program

For clarity, the Board has split the three distinct categories of continuing education approval into three (3) rules:

850-040-0210 Active and Inactive Licensee Annual Mandatory Continuing Education Requirements, Continuing Education Criteria per Subject Area

• What has NOT changed from the current rule?
• 32 hours of CE is required annually, with the same annual  requirements for 10 hours of pharmacy and 3 hours of other mandated education. 
• What is different from the current rule?
• More specific criteria for Board approval of continuing education per required subject area.
• The Board is allowing up to two credit hours annually for professional development -which includes, but not limited to: physical and mental wellness, enhancing practice management skills and resiliency, best practices in the digital clinical environment and incorporating telemedicine. [See section (3)(f)]

850-040-0215 Program Provider Applications for Board Approval of Continuing Education Programs

• What has NOT changed from the current rule?
• Oregon active licensees who provide live programs, with either in-person or with synchronous remote attendance of Oregon licensees, may submit to the Board an application for approval for continuing education credit prior to the date of the program.

• AANP and OANP may submit to the Board an application for approval for continuing education credit for live programs they hold, attended by Oregon licensees either in-person or by synchronous remote participants, prior to the date of the program.
  

• Program providers without an active Oregon license, who provide live programs in the State of Oregon, with either in-person or with synchronous remote attendance of Oregon licensees, may submit to the Board an application for approval for continuing education credit prior to the date of the program
  

• Board pre-approved continuing education programs and courses [See Section (2)(a)]. Licensees who complete one of the specific programs listed, may submit a certificate of completion for CE credit, no application for Board approval or additional documentation required.
  

• What has changed from the current rule?
  
• The rule number – program approval instructions were in 0210.
• The Board will only accept program provider applications for live programs, the Board will not accept program provider approval applications for webinars or other non-live programming.
• The Board will accept applications for program approval for live programs held outside of the State of Oregon only from Oregon active licensees, AANP and OANP.

• The Board added several pre-approved continuing education programs and courses including, but not limited to:
  
• American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) - Annual Convention
• Oregon Association of Naturopathic Physicians (OANP) - Annual and Quarterly Conferences

850-040-0230 Licensee Applications for Board Approval of Continuing Education Programs Attended and Self-Directed Activities

• What has NOT changed from the current rule?
  
• Licensees may apply to the Board for continuing education credit for any naturopathic continuing education program, event, course, webinar they complete.
• Licensees may apply to the Board for continuing education credit for completed self-directed activities.

• What has changed?
  
• Licensees must submit their application for continuing education approval for programs/webinars and self-directed activities no more than 30 days after the completion of the program or activity.
• Licensees may not apply for continuing education credit for programs / activities after they satisfy the annually required hours of continuing education for their licensure status.
• Licensees may only annually submit a maximum of ten (10) credit hours toward their annual renewal requirement from the listed self-directed education activities.