Does this count? A process, not a yes
Build a trail of where you looked for credit, MOC/CC, and state-board questions. The tool helps you log the search. It does not decide whether the activity counts.
What you’re making
Two things, depending on the Tuesday:
- A reply trail for “does this count for my license / my board / MATE / my hospital?” that lists where you looked and who decides, and never answers yes or no for a body you do not speak for.
- MOC/CC registration notes for PARS, built only from the current program guide and board list you pasted. The tool does not memorize collaborating boards.
This is inbox gold and accreditation poison if you get it backwards. Learners want a sentence. Boards want their own sentence. Your job is the process.
Where to look (credit and “does this count?”)
Work this list in order. Write down the URL and the date you opened it.
- The activity file. The credit designation statement as it actually went to learners. Hours as approved. Who the learners were. If that statement is not in the file, you do not have an answer yet.
- Your accreditor. ACCME or your Recognized Accreditor / Joint Accreditation, for what the provider may designate. Not for whether one physician’s state will accept it.
- The learner’s board or state. Their site, today. License renewal, opioid or MATE rules, and specialty certificates are not interchangeable.
- The certifying board, if they asked about MOC/CC. Start at ACCME’s Maintenance of Certification page for the current collaborating-board list and the CME for MOC Program Guide. Then open that board’s own page.
- Your medical director or compliance lead. Someone has to own the sentence that leaves the office.
Save-the-date copy is not the place for a recognition statement. ACCME says MOC recognition statements go on activity, registration, and promotional materials, and may be omitted from general save-the-date communications. Still do not invent the save-the-date.
MOC/CC notes, if that is the job
Accredited providers register CME that counts for MOC/CC in PARS, before the activity and before they advertise it. They attest to the board requirements in the current program guide. They agree to submit individual learner completion data. ACCME’s page says to report that learner data as soon as possible, ideally within 30 days. Year-end board deadlines differ (ACCME has published 1 December for ABP and 31 December for several other collaborating boards). Confirm the current dates on the MOC page. Do not learn them from this recipe.
You paste: the boards you are actually registering for, the credit types and amounts from the guide, the evaluation the board requires, the learner identifiers you will collect. The tool turns that into a notes page and a learner-facing “how to claim” paragraph that still contains no invented recognition statement.
Terminology: boards use Maintenance of Certification, Continuing Certification, or Continuous Certification. ABMS is shifting public language toward continuing certification. Use the name on the page you opened.
The collaborating-board list moved in 2026. ACCME’s summer 2026 data updates added ABPM CCP (activities starting 1 January 2026), noted ABPMR, and an ABS quality-improvement credit type. Do not treat this paragraph as the list. Open ACCME’s MOC page today.
What to have open
The approved activity: title, dates, hours, the credit statement as used. The learner’s question, with their board or state if they named one. The official page you opened today, pasted or quoted. Who in your office may send the reply.
For MOC registration: the current program-guide excerpt for those boards, and your attestation notes. Not a list you remember from last spring.
The prompt
A learner asked whether an activity "counts." I am the author of record. You will not answer yes or no. You will help me build a trail of where I looked. LEARNER QUESTION (their words): [paste] ACTIVITY, AS APPROVED: - Title: - Dates: - Hours / credit as designated: - Credit designation statement ON FILE (paste exactly, or write "not in the file"): - Who the activity was designed for: PAGES I OPENED TODAY (URL + date + one-sentence what I found): [paste] WHO IN MY OFFICE MAY DECIDE: [name and role] Draft: 1. A TRAIL. Numbered. Each item is a place I looked or still need to look. Use only my URLs. If I have not opened the learner’s board or state, add [NEEDS: open their board/state page]. 2. A REPLY I CAN EDIT. Under 140 words. Thank them. Restate the activity facts I supplied. Point them at the official body that decides their question. Do not say the activity counts or does not count. Do not invent a statement. 3. AN INTERNAL NOTE. One paragraph for the activity file: question, dates I searched, who will send the reply. If the credit statement is not in the file, the reply must say we will get back to them, not guess the hours.
I am preparing PARS registration notes for CME that may count for MOC/CC. I am the author of record. Use only the board list and program-guide text I paste. If I did not paste a board, do not add one. BOARDS I AM REGISTERING FOR, FROM ACCME’S CURRENT LIST I OPENED TODAY: [paste names exactly] PROGRAM-GUIDE EXCERPTS FOR THOSE BOARDS (requirements, credit type, evaluation, identifiers): [paste] ACTIVITY FACTS: [title, dates, format, hours, evaluation we will actually run] LEARNER DATA WE CAN COLLECT: [what our LMS already captures] Draft: 1. A PRE-REGISTRATION CHECKLIST. Register in PARS before the activity and before we advertise. Attest. Agree to submit learner completions. Flag anything I have not covered as [NEEDS:]. 2. NOTES FOR THE PARS FIELDS, in my words, only from the excerpts. No extra boards. No extra credit types. 3. A LEARNER "HOW TO CLAIM" PARAGRAPH that does not include a board recognition statement. Write [NEEDS: official recognition statement from the current CME for MOC Program Guide] instead of composing one. 4. A REPORTING REMINDER. I will confirm current learner-data deadlines on accme.org/data-reporting/maintenance-of-certification/. If I pasted a deadline, repeat it. If I did not, write [NEEDS: confirm deadline]. Do not invent a recognition statement, a badge rule, or a board that is not in my list.
What good output looks like
The reply is kind and unfinished. It sends the learner to a board, not to a yes. The MOC notes look like a checklist you could put next to PARS, with holes where you have not opened the guide.
How to check it
Yes/no pass. Search the draft for “counts,” “qualifies,” “accepted,” and “eligible.” If those words decide the learner’s question, rewrite that sentence.
Statement pass. Any designation or recognition sentence is a paste from an official page or a [NEEDS:]. Delete the rest.
Board pass. No board appears that you did not type.
File pass. The internal note is something you would keep. If you would be embarrassed to show it to a surveyor, it is too casual or too certain.
Where it goes wrong
It wants to be helpful. Helpful is how a coordinator becomes the board. The trail is the help.
It remembers last year’s collaborating boards. Lists change. Summer 2026 ACCME updates added boards and start-date rules. You open the page.
It writes the recognition statement. ACCME publishes examples in the program guide. Each board’s wording is specific. Combined statements must name each board, each credit type, and each amount. That is a copy job.
It treats save-the-date as the activity. Do not put a recognition statement on a teaser, and do not invent credit language there either.
Does this count? A process, not a yes · bettermethod.ai/recipes/credit-count-process/ · Last reviewed August 2026
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