CPD Credits for Canadian Physicians
CMAJ is a provider of Mainpro+® certified Self-Learning credits from the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC). The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) can transfer your credits directly to CFPC on your behalf. This service is currently only available for registrants of cma.ca. These Mainpro+® certified Self-Learning credits can be earned by completing a brief Impact Assessment questionnaire after reading eligible articles in the journal. This service is currently only available for CFPC members who are registered with cma.ca. To register, create an account at CMA Connect.
Canadian physicians can also request credit directly from CFPC and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada for non-certified learning credits based on reading CMAJ articles.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
CMAJ is a useful resource for members of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in obtaining Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credits:
- Readers can receive 1 Section 2 credit per article for any CMAJ articles that they have read and deemed to have had a substantial impact on their learning or practice.
- Credit can also be obtained (0.5 Section 2 credits per topic) for listening to CMAJ podcasts, watching CMAJ videos or searching CMAJ’s archives.
- Peer reviewers for CMAJ receive up to 15 Section 2 credits per year as a Peer Review activity.
- Preparing articles for submission to CMAJ can also earn authors 2 Section 2 credits per hour as a Personal Learning Project (PLP).
- CMAJ articles can also be used for Section 1 credits for participants in accredited or unaccredited journal clubs (value of credit depends on accreditation status).
Requests for credit should be submitted directly to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. More information on the MOC Program can be obtained here.
The College of Family Physicians of Canada
Certified Self-Learning Credits
CMAJ is a provider of Mainpro+® certified Self-Learning credits from the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC).
Canadian physicians can earn Mainpro+ Certified Self-Learning credits for completing a brief, reflective exercise (an ‘Impact Assessment’) after reading eligible CMAJ articles (available for 18 months after publication).
Credits are transferred directly to CFPC on your behalf for each eligible CMAJ article for which an 'Impact Assessment' is submitted, to a maximum of 50 credits per year. The number of credits varies by article type. See table below.
1 credit |
0.5 credit |
0.25 credit |
Guideline |
Practice – Case |
Practice – Five things to know about |
Review |
Practice – Decisions |
Practice – Five ways to support |
Analysis |
Practice – What's your call |
Practice – Clinical Images |
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Practice – Innovations |
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Practice – 360 Cases |
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For more information and list of current eligible articles, please see below.
Non-certified Credits
Any CFPC member or those who are part of CFPC’s Non-Member Mainpro+ Participant Program can obtain non-certified credits (1.0 credit per hour of participation) for the following activities related to CMAJ:
- Reading CMAJ articles that are not identified as part of CMAJ’s Certified Self-Learning Credit Program (Self-Learning category).
- Self-study using CMAJ podcasts and CMAJ videos (Self-Learning category).
- Preparing an article for submission to CMAJ (Self-Learning category).
- Peer reviewing a paper for CMAJ (Assessment category).
- Use of a CMAJ article in a journal club (Group Learning category)
Claims for non-certified credits should be made directly with CFPC. More information on CFPC’s Mainpro+® Program can be found here.
How CMAJ’s Certified Self-Learning Credit Program works
Each issue of CMAJ includes one or more articles designated as eligible for Certified Self-Learning credits for CMA members. Look for 'Earn CPD credits' in the Table of Contents, print or online edition.
- Read the article(s) for which you wish to earn credit. Click on the “Related Content” tab at the top of the article. If credits are available for that article, you will see the heading “EARN CPD CREDITS”. Click the “Yes” button under “did you read this article”. Alternatively, select and read articles from the list below, or the weekly Table of Contents email, and click on the “Earn CPD credits” link. You'll be directed to a page that shows the title of the article and the number of credits you're eligible to receive. Click 'Yes' when asked "Did you read this article?"
- You are then directed to the cma.ca log-in page. Enter your cma.ca user name and password when prompted. (If you are a CFPC member but do not have a cma.ca account, create one at CMA Connect.)
- Once logged in, you'll be directed to an 'Impact assessment'. Complete the assessment and 'Submit'. You are then prompted to enter your CFPC membership number, if you haven't already done so. Credits are automatically recorded and transferred to the CFPC on a quarterly basis.
- Readers can make comments on articles or ask questions of authors or other readers using the “Respond to this article” link (to the right of each article in the Article Tools box at CMAJ.CA). All responses are vetted by CMAJ editors prior to posting, and once responses are posted, authors are automatically notified. Authors and readers may respond using the same link.
CMAJ CPD Planning Committee
Administrative support: CPD-CMAJ Group ([email protected])
Shannon Charlebois [Competing Interests]
Diane Kelsall [Competing Interests]
Andreas Laupacis [Competing Interests]
Kirsten Patrick [Competing Interests]
Catherine Varner [Competing Interests]
For any questions regarding CMAJ’s CPD program, contact us here.
Current eligible articles for Certified Self-Learning Credits
2024
- Five things to know about …: Long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy for HIV-1 infection in adults [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five Things to Know About ...: Physician incivility in the health care workplace [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Clinical Images: Heterochromia caused by Waardenburg syndrome in a 2-month-old infant [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Syphilitic osteomyelitis in a patient with headache and lytic lesions [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Endometrial polyps [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Advances in the management of renal cell carcinoma [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Pediatric obstructive sleep apnea [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Innovations: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for smoking cessation [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Anorexia nervosa in adolescent males [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Postinfectious cough in adults [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Clinical Images: Papulonecrotic tuberculid [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Diagnosis and management of eosinophilic esophagitis [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Melioidosis with septic arthritis in a returning traveller [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Xylazine in the illicit opioid supply [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Diagnosis and management of polycystic ovarian syndrome [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis presenting with carpal tunnel syndrome [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Traumatic tympanic membrane perforations [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- The clinical course of acute, subacute and persistent low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Severe leptospirosis after a rat bite in an urban setting [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five Things to Know About ...: Nasal fractures [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Wilson disease in a 19-year-old female [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five Things to Know About ...: Narcolepsy [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
2023
- Cases: Access to health care: Using short-acting opioids to relieve opioid withdrawal in hospital [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Menopausal hormone therapy in patients with a history of gynecologic cancer [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Clinical Images: Anterior uveitis and diffuse scleritis after pamidronate infusion [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Frontotemporal dementia [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Clinical Images: Separating toes due to intermetatarsal bursitis in rheumatoid arthritis [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Derivation of the Falls Decision Rule to exclude intracranial bleeding without head CT in older adults who have fallen [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Asexuality [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Berylliosis in a 56-year-old welder [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Cord entrapment in a footling breech presentation with decreased fetal movements [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five Things to Know About ...: Pseudohyperkalemia in chronic lymphocytic leukemia [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Clinical Images: Erythema multiforme major associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in a patient with skin of colour [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cyberattacks on Canadian health information systems [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome complicated by subcapsular liver hematoma and rupture [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Novel obesity treatments [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cost-effectiveness of pharmacogenomic-guided treatment for major depression [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Continuous glucose monitoring [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five ways to support …: Young carers [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five ways to support …: Access to health care: Safe and equitable inpatient care for transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming patients [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Innovations: Renal denervation for uncontrolled hypertension [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five Things to Know About ...: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Clinical Images: An unusual cause of neck cellulitis [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Mycobacterium abscessus scalp infection after hair transplantation in Central America [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five Things to Know About ...: Hypothyroidism caused by apalutamide [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Clinical Images: A 10-day-old infant with asymmetric arm movement [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Stroke in a 36-year-old man with neurosyphilis and HIV, diagnosed using high-resolution vessel wall imaging [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five Things to Know About ...: Aspiration pneumonia [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Canadian guideline for the clinical management of high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Severe alcohol use disorder after initiation of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor therapy [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Acute limb ischemia [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Infraspinatus muscle atrophy in a 23-year-old hockey player [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Clinical practice guideline for management of osteoporosis and fracture prevention in Canada: 2023 update [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: Ankyloglossia (tongue tie) in infants [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Clinical Images: Puffy fingers and abnormal nail fold capillaries [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Severe vitamin B12 deficiency causing pseudo-thrombotic microangiopathy [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five Things to Know About ...: Tick-borne red meat allergy (α-gal syndrome) [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Access to health care: Preventive care recommendations to promote health equity [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Five things to know about …: SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in pregnancy [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Clinical Images: Infantile perianal pyramidal protrusion [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Self-harm among youth during the first 28 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Emergency department visits and hospital admissions for suicidal ideation, self-poisoning and self-harm among adolescents in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Trends in hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease over 16 years in Canada [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Rifampin-induced flu-like syndrome with shock in a patient with tuberculosis infection [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Guidance for policy: Access to health care: Guidance on take-home naloxone distribution and use by community overdose responders in Canada [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Diagnosis and management of toxicity associated with the recreational use of nitrous oxide [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- The evolution of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in Canada: a time-series study, 2020–2023 [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Lead toxicity from Ayurvedic medicines [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Prescription of oxycodone versus codeine after childbirth and risk of persistent opioid use: a population-based cohort study [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Household food insecurity and health service use for mental and substance use disorders among children and adolescents in Ontario, Canada [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- The association of sensitivity and specificity with disease prevalence: analysis of 6909 studies of diagnostic test accuracy [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Postpartum seizure as a complication of dural puncture and intracranial hypotension [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Guidance for policy: Access to health care: Deceased organ and tissue donation after medical assistance in dying: 2023 updated guidance for policy [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Catheter-directed thrombolysis compared with systemic thrombolysis and anticoagulation in patients with intermediate- or high-risk pulmonary embolism: systematic review and network meta-analysis [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- A practical approach to the diagnosis and management of chlamydia and gonorrhea [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Access to health care: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer diagnoses, stage and survival in Alberta [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Nonsurgical management of major hemorrhage [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Tuberculous monoarthritis of the knee joint [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Access to health care: Diagnosis and management of depression in adolescents [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Acute care related to cannabis use during pregnancy after the legalization of nonmedical cannabis in Ontario [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Questioning physicians about health conditions at medical licensure registration: How should policy evolve in Canada? [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- A pragmatic approach to the management of menopause [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Recommendations on screening for primary prevention of fragility fractures [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- An approach to treating older adults with chronic kidney disease [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Persistent myopericarditis after heterologous SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- 360 cases: Access to health care: Receiving and providing virtual harm reduction and peer-based support [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Innovations: Rendezvous procedure for choledocholithiasis in a Canadian rural surgical service [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Hypertrophic herpes simplex virus 2 infection resistant to acyclovir in an immunosuppressed patient [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Innovations: Penicillin allergy delabelling of patients at risk of sexually transmitted infections in primary care [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: A young woman with fever and polyserositis caused by familial Mediterranean fever [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Diagnosis and management of endometriosis [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: First episode psychosis due to anti–N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Primary varicella in 2 adult immigrants to Canada [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Traumatic brain and spinal injuries in a pedestrian struck by an electric scooter [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Diagnosis and management of patients with polyneuropathy [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Access to health care: Pharmacologic prevention of migraine [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Diagnosis and acute management of migraine [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Normal pressure hydrocephalus treated with ventriculoperitoneal shunt [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Catheter-associated superior vena cava syndrome [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Generalized pitting edema in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy secondary to hypothyroidism [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
2022
- Cases: Human granulocytic anaplasmosis complicated by hemophagocytic syndrome and coinfection [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Virilization caused by ovarian nodular hyperthecosis in a postmenopausal woman [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Cardiac arrest in a 14-year-old at an overnight camp [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Innovations: Virtual overdose monitoring services: a novel adjunctive harm reduction approach for addressing the overdose crisis [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Sexually acquired severe acute hepatitis C infection in men who have sex with men [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Guidance For Policy: Core elements of participant consent documents for Canadian human genomics research and the National Human Genome Library: guidance for policy [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Artificial intelligence in colorectal cancer screening [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Canadian Cardiovascular Harmonized National Guideline Endeavour (C-CHANGE) guideline for the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease in primary care: 2022 update [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Gaslighting in academic medicine: where anti-Black racism lives [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Innovations: Afrocentric approaches to disrupting anti-Black racism in health care and promoting Black health in Canada [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Ensuring equitable access to cancer care for Black patients in Canada [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Mental Health: Factors that contribute to the mental health of Black youth [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Prostate cancer screening in Black men in Canada: a case for risk-stratified care [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Lymphocytic colitis associated with entacapone [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Transient ischemic attack and minor stroke: diagnosis, risk stratification and management [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Biliary ascariasis and trisomy 21 in a child newly arrived to Canada [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: A challenging diagnosis: hereditary angioedema presenting during pregnancy [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Severe thrombotic complications secondary to antiphospholipid syndrome and undiagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Sepsis: Maternal cardiac arrest secondary to choriosepsis after preterm premature rupture of membranes [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV: effective and underused [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- 360 Cases: Vishma’s story: a mystery solved [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Acute cytomegalovirus infection in a 61-year-old woman [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Functional neurologic disorder associated with SARS-CoV-2 vaccination [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Methemoglobinemia in a 28-year-old woman treated with dapsone [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- A case of human monkeypox in Canada [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Occupational hypersensitivity pneumonitis after polyurethane adhesive exposure [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Mental Health: Recommendation on instrument-based screening for depression during pregnancy and the postpartum period [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Health Services: Reducing barriers to accessing administrative data on SARS-CoV-2 vaccination for research [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- Cases: Lyme disease in a neonate complicated by the Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]
- The war in Ukraine and refugee health care: considerations for health care providers in Canada [Read article] [Earn CPD credits]