Gabriel Marian
I'm not a clinician - I'm a researcher who runs CMEforEcho as an independent project tracking the echo CME market, working through the platforms myself and keeping the pricing and requirements data current.
What this site is
CMEforEcho is an independent guide to continuing medical education in echocardiography, with a deliberate bias toward transesophageal echo - the corner of the field where CME options are fewest and worst-documented. We review the platforms, compare them on the numbers that matter (credits available, cost per credit, format, TEE depth), and maintain plain-language guides to the requirements themselves: NBE certification & MOCE, the PTEeXAM, and the realistic timelines for deadline situations.
What this site is not: a CME provider. We don't issue credits, and accreditation belongs entirely to the platforms we review - we link to their official accreditation statements so you can verify before buying, and you always should.
Why do we run this platform - the full version
This site earns referral commissions. Specifically: when a reader purchases a plan from eEcho through our links, we receive a percentage of the subscription at no additional cost to the reader. That is currently our only affiliate relationship - links to every other platform we cover (EchoSAP, BoardVitals, Medmastery, Mayo, StatPearls, ASE) are plain links that pay us nothing.
We think you should know how that incentive is managed rather than pretend it doesn't exist:
- Every page carrying an affiliate link discloses it on that page, near the link - not just here.
- Our reviews include a "what we didn't like" section with real criticisms, and our comparison recommends competitors outright for the reader profiles they genuinely serve better.
- Prices and claims are checked against the platforms' published pages and date-stamped; when something changes, the pages get updated, not defended.
- No platform pays for placement, reviews itself, or sees our content before publication.
How we evaluate platforms
Four criteria, in order: echo/TEE specificity (because the NBE's recertification requirement demands echo-specific credits), credits available versus what clinicians actually need, effective cost per credit computed transparently, and format fit for a clinical schedule. Where we've used a platform hands-on, we say so and show it; where we haven't, we stick to published facts and say that too. The full methodology is on the comparison page.
Corrections and contact
If we've got a price, credit count, or requirement wrong, we want to know today. Let us know through the contact page. Requirement details especially - boards revise policy, and a guide is only as good as its last check. Nothing on this site is individual professional advice; your board's current published requirements are always the final word.