(1) Continuing education programs must:

(a) have significant intellectual or practical content, and the primary objective shall be to increase the participant's professional competence as an acupuncturist; and

(b) constitute an organized program of learning dealing with matters directly related to the practice of acupuncture, professional responsibility, or ethical obligations of acupuncturists.

(2) Approved continuing education includes:

(a) courses accredited by the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine;

(b) courses sponsored by a state acupuncture association or an acupuncture school; and

(c) teaching acupuncture in an accredited academic or continuing education program.

(3) Licensees may claim five hours of self-study toward meeting the requirements of ARM 24.111.815.