CMETracker

What CMETracker does

A clinician’s registration is renewed on continuing-education credits, and the evidence for those credits is usually a folder of certificates somebody hunts for in the last month of a five-year cycle. This keeps the ledger: a cycle per clinician against the requirement, every credit with the certificate reference it rests on, what has been verified by somebody other than the person who claimed it, and how far short the total still is. THE ONE NUMBER THIS APP DOES NOT SUPPLY IS THE COUNCIL’S. How many credits a council asks for, and over how many years, differs by council and changes by notification — so the requirement table ships empty, the field naming where the figure came from is not optional, and a hospital that has entered nothing sees credits counted and nothing measured, which the screen says out loud rather than showing a green tick.

How you actually use it

1. 1Enter the council’s figure firstRecord the requirement takes the council, the credits required, the cycle in months and where the figure came from; the source is a not-null column with a length check, and until a requirement exists the screen says no council figure has been entered and measures nothing.
2. 2Open a cycle per clinicianChoose the clinician, the requirement and the start date; the cycle copies that requirement’s total at the moment it opens and never re-reads it, so a council raising its figure cannot fail somebody halfway through.
3. 3Claim the creditsInside a cycle each credit carries the date, the credits, what it was, its kind and its certificate reference; one with nothing behind it is refused.
4. 4Somebody else verifiesVerify is refused on a credit you recorded yourself — the certificate goes to another pair of eyes, and the standing table counts earned and verified separately.
5. 5Close as metClose as met asks for a line for the record, and is refused while the verified credits are still short of the number the cycle was opened on.

What it does not do

It ships with no credit requirement and no cycle length in it: those are regulatory figures, and a wrong one looks exactly like a right one on a screen. A requirement cannot be stored without naming the circular or notification it came from, and until one is stored nothing is measured. A cycle keeps the total it was opened on, so a council raising its figure does not fail somebody halfway through. A credit carries its evidence — the certificate reference, the certificate itself, or both — and one with neither is refused. The certificate is uploaded from the desk and opened again from the credit; a file that is not one of your own finished uploads is refused. A credit dated outside its cycle, or added to a cycle that is finished, is refused, and a cycle closed short has to say why. Nobody verifies a credit they recorded themselves, and a cycle cannot be marked met until the VERIFIED credits actually reach the total. It does not file the renewal with the council, and it does not decide what counts as a credit — that is the council’s rule and your officer’s judgement.

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