Access Status Wallet Cards, Requirements, and Letters of Participation
Access Your Wallet Card, Letters of Participation
Your Letters of Participation and Wallet Card (with current expiration date) are both found by logging into your AAFP Member Transcript or your Non-AAFP Member Account.
AAFP Member Transcript: https://aafp.org/mycme
- View Transcript
- Under your name, change year field to show additional years, if necessary – then select ‘Update’.
- Letter of participation for the Online course will be found next to the date it was completed. Wallet Card is found under the Live course entry.
- Letter of participation and wallet card for the Live course will be found next to the date of the last course in which you attended or instructed.
Non-AAFP Member Account: https://aafp.org/cmecertificate
- View Letters of Participation
- ‘Completed AAFP-Sponsored CME’ – you will find your Online Course letters here next to the date you completed the Online course. Wallet Card is found under the Live course entry.
- Scroll down the page
- ‘Completed Non-AAFP-Sponsored CME’ – you will find your Live Course letters and wallet card here, next to the date of the last course in which you attended or instructed.
Approved Instructor Self-Tracking Teaching and Renewal Course Requirements:
Upon the Approved Instructor expiration date, your status will renew another 3 years if you have met teaching requirements and completed the ALSO Online Instructor Renewal Course (current edition during their status period) prior to your expiration date. The status will renew on the expiration date printed on your wallet card, NOT the date in which the Online Instructor Renewal Course is completed.
Self-Tracking Your Requirements:
- In your AAFP Transcript/Account, access your Wallet Card and note the start and expiration dates printed on it.
- Find your entries that read ALSO Teaching: ALSO Provider Course, ALSO Instructor Course or BLSO Provider Course between your start and expiration dates.
- If you see your required number of ‘Teaching’ entries, you have met your teaching requirement.
- You will also find the Online Instructor Renewal Course letter of participation in your transcript/account, found next to the date it was completed. If not in transcript, please complete prior to your expiration date.
Status Periods and Requirements
**All original status expiration dates in 2020, 2021, and January 2022 – May 2022 were extended to 6/30/2022 due to course cancellations during the pandemic.**
Status Period for Course Date Attended
ALSO and BLSO Status
June 2019 and after, 3-year status
June 2017-May 2019, 2-year status (extended to 3 year status in June 2019)
May 2017 and before, 5-year status*
*All who were in a 5-year status will transition to the 3-year status upon the completion of their next provider course.
ALSO Approved Instructor Status
June 2019 and after, 3-year status (status requirements: teaching 2 times and completion of the ALSO Online Instructor Renewal Course)
May 2019 and before, 5-year status period, (status requirements: teaching 3 times and completion of the ALSO Online Instructor Renewal Course)
Advisory Faculty Status
This status is fully dependent on maintenance of Approved Instructor status.
The Approved Instructor expiration date and Advisory Faculty expiration will always be the same.