Hawaii Physician Assistant license renewal and CE requirements

Summary

Hawaii physician assistants must complete 100 CME credits of continuing education every two years to renew their license with the Hawaii Medical Board (Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Professional and Vocational Licensing Division). A Hawaii physician assistant license renews by January 31 of every even numbered year, regardless of the date the license was issued. The current licensing period runs February 1, 2026 to January 31, 2028, with on time renewals accepted from November 10, 2025 to January 31, 2026. Proof of current NCCPA certification must be submitted with the hardcopy renewal, and for a physician assistant on active status the supervising physician's license must be renewed before the physician assistant license will be renewed. A license not renewed by the expiration date is unlicensed and may not practice; a forfeited physician assistant license may be restored within two years.

Hawaii Physician Assistant renewal and continuing education rules

"Not stated" means the board's pages and rules we read do not address it. We do not fill in typical values.

Hawaii sets no state continuing education hour count for physician assistants. The board's physician assistant renewal requirements page asks for one thing on the education side: proof of current NCCPA certification submitted with the hardcopy renewal. The 100 credit figure recorded here is NCCPA's, read on NCCPA's own certification maintenance page, where a board certified PA logs 100 CME credits in each two year cycle and passes PANRE or PANRE-LA by the end of the tenth year. Note that the board's continuing education page lists rule based CE requirements for physicians, podiatrists and emergency medical technicians and does not list physician assistants, which is consistent with the certification only approach. A reader should treat the state requirement as current NCCPA certification and the number as NCCPA's, not Hawaii's.

Required CE topics for Hawaii physician assistants

The Hawaii Medical Board (Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Professional and Vocational Licensing Division) pages and rules we read do not mandate specific subject areas for this license type. Hours may be in any approved subject.

Documentation and audit

Common questions

How many CE hours does a Hawaii PA need to renew?

Hawaii physician assistants must complete 100 CME credits of continuing education every two years to renew their license with the Hawaii Medical Board (Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Professional and Vocational Licensing Division). Hawaii sets no state continuing education hour count for physician assistants. The board's physician assistant renewal requirements page asks for one thing on the education side: proof of current NCCPA certification submitted with the hardcopy renewal. The 100 credit figure recorded here is NCCPA's, read on NCCPA's own certification maintenance page, where a board certified PA logs 100 CME credits in each two year cycle and passes PANRE or PANRE-LA by the end of the tenth year. Note that the board's continuing education page lists rule based CE requirements for physicians, podiatrists and emergency medical technicians and does not list physician assistants, which is consistent with the certification only approach. A reader should treat the state requirement as current NCCPA certification and the number as NCCPA's, not Hawaii's.

How often does a Hawaii PA license need to be renewed?

Physician Assistant licenses in Hawaii renew every two years. A Hawaii physician assistant license renews by January 31 of every even numbered year, regardless of the date the license was issued. The current licensing period runs February 1, 2026 to January 31, 2028, with on time renewals accepted from November 10, 2025 to January 31, 2026. Proof of current NCCPA certification must be submitted with the hardcopy renewal, and for a physician assistant on active status the supervising physician's license must be renewed before the physician assistant license will be renewed. A license not renewed by the expiration date is unlicensed and may not practice; a forfeited physician assistant license may be restored within two years.

Does Hawaii require specific CE topics for physician assistants?

The Hawaii Medical Board (Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Professional and Vocational Licensing Division) does not list mandated subject areas for PA renewal on the pages we verified; the 100 CME credits may be in any approved subject.

Do Hawaii physician assistants have to submit CE certificates at renewal?

Proof of completion must be submitted with the renewal. NCCPA continuing medical education and certification maintenance standards. Proof of current NCCPA certification is filed with the renewal.

Sources

Last verified September 8, 2026. Every value above was read from one of these.

• Physician Assistant Renewal Requirements, Hawaii Medical BoardState board page, accessed September 8, 2026
• Hawaii Medical Board, Department of Commerce and Consumer AffairsState board page, accessed September 8, 2026
• Physician, Podiatrist and EMT Continuing Education Requirements, Hawaii Medical BoardState board page, accessed September 8, 2026
• Maintain Certification, National Commission on Certification of Physician AssistantsNational association, accessed September 8, 2026

Hawaii regulates physician assistants through the Hawaii Medical Board, not a separate physician assistant board. The cca.hawaii.gov host returns 403 to automated clients, so all three board pages were read in a rendered browser rather than fetched. The 100 credit figure is NCCPA's, not Hawaii's, and is labelled that way. The board's own continuing education page points physicians to Subchapter 5 of the board's rules, podiatrists to Subchapter 8 and EMTs to 16-85-55, and says nothing about physician assistants, so no state hour count is recorded. The board audits continuing education randomly and notifies selected licensees in October of odd numbered years, but that page is written for physicians, podiatrists and EMTs, so the audit field is left null for physician assistants. The supervising physician relationship is a practice authorization, not continuing education, though it does gate the renewal. Hawaii Administrative Rules Title 16 Chapter 85 was not read; the board publishes its rules as PDFs, which the no download rule excludes.