Welcome to the Office of Continuing Medical Education (OCME) at the Arizona Health Sciences Center at the University of Arizona.

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Our goal is to provide physicians and other health care professionals with high quality educational experiences. Continuing medical education is defined by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) as:

"educational activities that serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession. The content of CME is that body of knowledge and skills generally accepted by the profession as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision of healthcare to the public".

During the past fiscal year, over 40,000 physicians and other healthcare professionals attended live conferences, grand rounds, completed enduring materials and internet activities.  Close to 100 activities and 40 grand rounds were sponsored.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center has fulfilled the accreditation requirements set forth by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and is hereby accredited as a provider of continuing medical education for physicians.

Since the University of Arizona College of Medicine opened its doors to the first class of medical students in 1967, the college has led the way to improving the health of Arizonans through its commitment to education, research, outreach and patient care.

Arizona's only four-year MD-Degree granting college, The UA College of Medicine has 20 departments and ten centers of excellence dedicated to specific areas of research, clinical care and teaching. More than 500 full-time faculty members and nearly 800 part-time faculty members instruct today's medical students.

The college is the nucleus of a thriving academic health sciences center that has grown to provide medical care and health-care programs throughout the state, from the U.S.-Mexico border to Native American communities in Northern Arizona. Now approaching its fourth decade of service to the people of Arizona, the UA College of Medicine continues to expand, boasting an additional hospital training site in Tucson - University Physicians Healthcare Hospital at Kino Campus - new Arizona Cancer Center addition, a historic expansion in downtown Phoenix of the College of Medicine/Phoenix Campus.

Centers of Excellence at the Arizona Health Sciences Center

College Of Medicine

Arizona Arthritis Center

Arizona Cancer Center

Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine

Arizona Center on Aging (with College of Nursing)

Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center

Arizona Hispanic Center of Excellance

Arizona Respiratory Center

Steele Children's Research Center

The University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center

Valley Fever Center for Excellence

College Of Pharmacy

Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center

Center for Toxicology

Center for Health Outcomes and PharmoEconomic Research

Medication Management Center

College of Public Health

Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion

Center for Health Equality, a Project Export Center

Southwest Center for Community Health Promotion

College of Nursing

Arizona Center on Aging (with College of Medicine)

Other health-related centers and centers of excellence at AHSC:

UA Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics

Arizona Telemedicine and Telehealth Center

Clinical and Translational Science Research Center

UA National Center of Excellence in Women's Health