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Finding CME is easy. Finding CME that satisfies the specific thing your board is asking for, without paying for it, is not.
Every state has drifted toward mandating narrow topics — two hours of implicit bias, one hour of human trafficking, three hours of opioid prescribing, a one-time course on professional boundaries. Those are precisely the subjects the free market covers worst. So physicians end up at 11pm the night before a renewal deadline, clicking through “free CME” roundups where a third of the links lead to activities that expired in 2022, or to a $10 certificate fee at the end of a free video.
This site does one thing: it puts your board’s actual requirements next to the courses that satisfy them, tells you which are genuinely free, and tells you when they expire.
CME Now is maintained by Robert H. Jones, Jr., MD, a board-certified radiation oncologist.
Dr. Jones has served as Medical Director of Radiation Oncology at the Baptist Cancer Institute (Baptist Memorial Hospital — Golden Triangle) in Columbus, Mississippi since 1998, where he chairs the Cancer Committee and has served three terms as Chairman of the Department of Radiology. He is certified in radiation oncology by the American Board of Radiology and maintains continuous certification.
He earned his M.D. at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and completed his internship and residency in radiation oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Since 2010 he has also worked as a locum tenens radiation oncologist, covering community hospital systems and regional oncology practices across the country — from North Dakota to Florida, Virginia to Oklahoma.
That is where this site came from. Practicing across that many states means holding licenses in that many states, and every one of them has its own hour count, its own renewal cycle, and its own list of mandated topics that changes without announcement. Keeping 19 sets of requirements straight is genuinely difficult, and the resources that exist to help are stale, gated, or trying to sell you something. So this is the reference he wanted and could not find.
Dr. Jones currently holds an active medical license in the following 19 states:
License numbers are available on request for credentialing purposes but are not published here.
CME Now is not an accredited CME provider. We do not issue credit, we cannot grant credit, and no page here is itself a CME activity. Credit comes from the accredited organizations we link to. Only your licensing board decides what counts toward your renewal.
Nor is anything here legal or compliance advice. Requirements change mid-cycle and boards interpret them differently. Confirm with your own board before relying on any activity to meet a requirement.
We take no payment for placement, and no listing position is for sale. If that ever changes — if a provider sponsors a section of the site — it will be labeled as sponsored on the page where it appears, and it will not change what we say about whether a course is free or whether it has expired.
The whole premise here is that the list is accurate on the day you read it. If a course has expired, started charging, or stopped counting — or if we have a state requirement wrong — we want to know. Write to admin@cmenow.net and we will fix it.