Facing a new CME tracking requirement for licensure as of Sept. 1, physicians can benefit from the Texas Medical Association’s education materials and communications to members and with the online tracking platform’s vendor.
TMA continues to field questions about the new mandatory CME tracking requirement under Senate Bill 912 primarily through its Knowledge Center, helping TMA to expand its understanding of how informal CME tracking on CE Broker, the online continuing education compliance platform selected by the TMB to implement SB 912, will work. As a result, TMA is compiling answers from those questions to better navigate future queries.
TMB and CE Broker will host a May 13 webinar, the first of several ahead of Sept. 1, with registration limited to 1,000. A TMB spokesperson says the webinar recording will be available online once concluded.
TMB also has preemptively anticipated some physician questions, making two CE Broker tutorial videos available on its YouTube channel, one for account creation, and one for responding to a continuing education audit. Additionally, TMB has related resources on its website, including FAQS and contact information for CE Broker’s Help Center.
Addressing remaining gaps, TMA recently clarified the step-by-step process for submitting a transcript of formal AMA PRA Category 1 or 1A courses on CE Broker. That process allows a transcript from an accredited CME provider to substitute for individual certificates for each course.
TMA also arranged for CE Broker to participate in the Expo Hall’s new Tech Village at the recent TexMed 2026 conference in Corpus Christi. There, representatives from Propelus (CE Broker’s parent company) gave a Tech Talk, answered attendees’ questions, and helped physicians create accounts on the platform.
“It was easy,” said Jawahar Jagarapu, MD, a neonatal and perinatal medicine specialist from Dallas who visited the station between CME sessions. “It only took five minutes.”
TMA also has learned how to account for informal CME after a TMA member sought clarity on how to track article reading and peer consultations.
Through a CE Broker representative, Jack Seidel, MD, said he learned “a photo of the article itself, of the cover of the article, or of the content of the article” could suffice as evidence that the physician read the article. Since that call, TMA secured additional information about uploading informal CME to CE Broker, which is now part of TMA’s evolving CE Broker primer on the Knowledge Center’s online knowledge base.
Whereas formal CME is designated for credit by an entity like TMA, a hospital, or a medical school, informal CME is often physician-initiated and takes many forms.
TMA has confirmed examples of informal CME learning activities include, but are not limited to:
- Consultation with peers and medical experts;
- Medical writing;
- Peer review and quality assurance participation
- Preceptorship participation;
- Reading authoritative medical literature;
- Research;
- Self-assessment activities;
- Small group discussions;
- Teaching physicians, residents, medical students, or other health professionals; and
- Unstructured online searching and learning.
More info on CME requirements for licensure can be found on the TMB website. And you can access TMA’s CME offerings for free as a benefit of membership thanks to TMA Insurance Trust.
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Phil West is a writer and editor whose publications include the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Austin American-Statesman, and San Antonio Express-News. He earned a BA in journalism from the University of Washington and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin’s James A. Michener Center for Writers. He lives in Austin with his wife, children, and a trio of free-spirited dogs.