{"id":2210,"date":"2014-09-26T12:07:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T16:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.sites.unc.edu\/cpd\/cpd\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:23:59","slug":"cpd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cpd\/","title":{"rendered":"Office of Continuing Professional Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of the UNC School of Medicine (UNC SOM) supports the mission of the School of Medicine, to \u201cimprove the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians and others whom the School serves\u201d, specifically in the area of physician continuing education.\u00a0 By applying the ACCME criteria and other best practices in medical education to the planning and implementation of UNC SOM activities, CPD works closely with UNC SOM faculty to offer continuing medical education of the highest quality.<\/p>\n<p>CPD offers support and CME credit for regularly scheduled series (such as grand rounds and case conferences), annual and one time events, web-based activities, and a variety of other educational formats.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/cmetracker.net\/UNC\/Publisher?page=pubOpen#\/myPortal\"><b>ACCESS THE CPD CREDIT PORTAL<\/b><\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>For instructions on using the credit portal, see our policies and forms page.<\/li>\n<li>For users of iPhones and other Apple products: There is a known issue where the default browser may return a &#8220;site not found&#8221; error with this link. This issue is inherent in the way the software processes certain websites and is outside our control.\u00a0 If this occurs, please copy the link address and paste it into your browser address bar or use a different browser.<\/li>\n<li>Update 1\/13\/2026: It appears that the UNC Health network may be blocking the CME Tracker page, returning only a blank page. If you encounter this issue, you will need to access the site via a different network.\u00a0 A smartphone should work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To request a CPD application form, or for general CPD questions, please contact the CME Coordinator, Doug Hudson, via <a class=\"mail-link\" href=\"mailto:douglas_hudson@med.unc.edu\">email.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Office of Continuing Professional Development\u00a0 * 7258Q Roper Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of the UNC School of Medicine (UNC SOM) supports the mission of the School of Medicine, to \u201cimprove the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians and others whom the School serves\u201d, specifically in the area of physician continuing education.\u00a0 By applying the ACCME criteria and other best practices &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cpd\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Office of Continuing Professional Development\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26414,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2210","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Office of Continuing Professional Development - Office of Continuing Professional Development<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cpd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Office of Continuing Professional Development - Office of Continuing Professional Development\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Office of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of the UNC School of Medicine (UNC SOM) supports the mission of the School of Medicine, to \u201cimprove the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians and others whom the School serves\u201d, specifically in the area of physician continuing education.\u00a0 By applying the ACCME criteria and other best practices &hellip; 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