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These findings and innovations impact how patients with certain medical conditions should be assessed, treated, and cared for. As a result, medical professionals have a responsibility to their patients to continue their education and stay on top of these changes. Only by doing so can they confidently provide patients with the level of care they deserve.

And, as any medical professional knows, maintaining membership in these organizations is extremely important. Continuing medical education may also be a requirement for certain healthcare certifications and licensure.

Most regulatory bodies around the world require physicians and allied health professionals to complete a certain number of continuing education credits each year, as a requirement to maintain their license. These blasts originate in magnetically disturbed regions of the corona , the Sun's upper atmosphere - hence the name. Most CMEs form over magnetically active regions on the "surface" of the Sun in the vicinity of sunspots.

CMEs are often associated with solar flares , another type of explosive "solar storm". However, CMEs and solar flares don't always go together, and scientists aren't completely sure how the two phenomena are related.

These shock waves can accelerate charged particles ahead of them — causing increased radiation storm potential or intensity. Important CME parameters used in analysis are size, speed, and direction. This can often provide 15 to 60 minutes advanced warning of shock arrival at Earth — and any possible sudden impulse or sudden storm commencement; as registered by Earth-based magnetometers.

Important aspects of an arriving CME and its likelihood for causing more intense geomagnetic storming include the strength and direction of the IMF beginning with shock arrival, followed by arrival and passage of the plasma cloud and frozen-in-flux magnetic field. More intense levels of geomagnetic storming are favored when the CME enhanced IMF becomes more pronounced and prolonged in a south-directed orientation.

Some CMEs show predominantly one direction of the magnetic field during its passage, while most exhibit changing field directions as the CME passes over Earth. SWPC forecasters discuss analysis and geomagnetic storm potential of CMEs in the forecast discussion and predict levels of geomagnetic storming in the 3-day forecast. Skip to main content.