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End-of-life / Palliative Care - Connecticut Required CME:

End-of-life / Palliative Care - Connnecticut Required CME:

Culture & End of Life Care: Collaborating with Interdisciplinary Partners
Credit hours...1.5.
Awarded by....American Academy of Family Physicians
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Meets Special CME Requirements in: California (End of Life and Geriatrics), Connecticut (Cultural Competence), Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas.

After completing this program, you should be better able to:
• Analyze advantages for using a skilled interpreter with limited English proficiency (LEP) patients or patients who don't speak English at all;
• Learn how and why to conduct a pre-session with an interpreter;
• Identify strategies for successful communication when working with an interpreter;
• Elicit the patient's perspective when a family member tries to speak for her;
• Encourage the patient to learn what Western medicine offers, so she can make an informed decision;
• Negotiate a treatment plan, offering your recommendations while respecting the patient's perspective;
• Collaborate with a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) provider to meet the patient's treatment goals;
• Build a lasting relationship with the patient;
• Observe that members of the same family and culture may hold different spiritual values;
• Identify several options for resolving conflicting values;
• Analyze the results when spiritual needs are addressed in planning end-of-life care;
• Analyze how different approaches to ethical decision making might lead to conflict between a physician and a nurse;
• Identify possible pitfalls in handling interdisciplinary conflict; and
• Assess strategies for addressing interdisciplinary conflicts effectively.

Culture & End of Life Care: Conversations with Patients and Families
Credit hours...1.0.
Awarded by....American Academy of Family Physicians
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Meets Special CME Requirements in: California (End of Life and Geriatrics), Connecticut (Cultural Competence), Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas.

After completing this program, you should be better able to:
• Compare methods of giving bad news to a patient;
• Consider ways to respond when a patient is overwhelmed and raises questions that are difficult to answer;
• Identify a series of steps that physicians can take to examine and address their own emotions in order to preserve the quality of patient care and protect the physician's well-being;
• Elicit information from family members to clarify the incapacitated patient's motivations when she completed a living will;
• Sort the facts surrounding an ethical question in an end-of-life situation.
• Develop and consider options for resolving ethical issues;
• Give advice to patients about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) based on evidence;
• Negotiate treatment plans with patients who elect to use CAM along with conventional care; and
• Monitor patients' usage of CAM.

Culture & End of Life Care: Patients' Beliefs and Values
Credit hours...1.5.
Awarded by....American Academy of Family Physicians
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Meets Special CME Requirements in: California (End of Life and Geriatrics), Connecticut (Cultural Competence), Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas.

After completing this program, you should be better able to:
• Ask questions that will help you gather information on the patient's Explanatory • Model, or understanding, of her illness experience;
• Organize your approach to culture using the LEARN mnemonic: Listen, Explain, • • Acknowledge, Recommend, and Negotiate;
• Elicit and respond to patients' faith-based values and goals for care;
• Enable patients to anticipate and consider aspects of the dying process they might not have considered;
• Facilitate communication with others who will be involved in patients' end-of-life care;
• Incorporate patients' values and preferences in advance care planning;
• Identify options for responding to requests from a patient's family that raise ethical questions;
• Analyze how to offer truth in order to elicit your patients' preferences;
• Negotiate solutions that respect patients' preferences as well as your ethical duty;
• Evaluate evidence for and against complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices;
• Advise patients on the basis of evidence;
• Negotiate treatment plans with patients who incorporate CAM; and
• Build trust and promote open communication with patients.

HIV/AIDS - Connecticut Required CME:

HIV/AIDS - Connecticut Required CME:

Current Management of Acute HIV Infection
Credit hours...2.0.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Florida, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island (Universal Precautions), and Rhode Island (Infection Control / Modes of Transmission).

Current Management of Acute HIV Infection will help you to:
Recognize the clinical picture of the acute retroviral syndrome;
Utilize appropriate tests to diagnose human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection; and
Manage clinical situations that may represent recent HIV-1 exposure.

The Immune Reconstitution Syndrome in AIDS
Credit hours...1.0 hour.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut and Florida.

After completing The Immune Reconstitution Syndrome in AIDS, you should be better able to:
• Recognize that restoration of immunologic function in persons with HIV disease may lead to a worsening clinical picture, the immune reconstitution syndrome.
• Diagnose and manage occult opportunistic infections in persons with newly treated HIV disease.
• Treat CNS cryptococcal disease in persons with AIDS.

Treating Hepatitis C in Patients with HIV Disease
Credit hours...1.0 hour.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut and Florida.

After completing Treating Hepatitis C in Patients with HIV Disease, you should be better able to:
• Diagnose the clinical syndrome of porphyria cutanea tarda.
• Diagnose hepatitis C.
• Adjust the treatment of hepatitis C based on viral genotype and liver pathology.

Using Systematic Procedures to Prevent Medical Errors
Credit hours...2.0.
Awarded by....Office of Continuing Education, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Using Systematic Procedures to Prevent Medical Errors will help you to:
• Use standardized procedures and checklists to reduce medical errors;
• Manage informed consent;
• Utilize rapid response teams; and
• Better approach communication difficulties.

A Clinician's Guide to Sexual Assault
Credit hours...2.0.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Texas.

A Clinician's Guide to Sexual Assault will help you to:
• Understand the epidemiology of sexual assault;
• Anticipate your patients' needs; and
• Meet legal and forensic requirements in assault cases.

A Guide to the Secrets of Never-Sued Physicians
Credit hours...4.0.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

A Guide to the Secrets of Never-Sued Physicians will help you to:
• Utilize the behaviors of never-sued physicians and incorporate them into daily practice;
• Refrain from using specific physician behaviors that precipitate lawsuits;
• Recognize potentially litigious patients and put into practice methods for dealing with them;
• Practice medicine in a way that is consistent with recognized ethical principles.

Communicating Through Healthcare Interpreters
Credit hours...2.0.
Awarded by....Rush University Medical Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Communicating Through Healthcare Interpreters will help you to:
• Understand the legal requirements and clinical importance of working with interpreters;
• Better manage your communications with patients who do not speak English;
• Appropriately use interpreters and interpretive services in your practice setting; and
• Improve your level of cultural competency.

EMTALA: An E.R. Law That Affects All Physicians, 2nd Edition
Credit hours...4.0.
Awarded by....American College of Emergency Physicians.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas

EMTALA: An E.R. Law That Affects All Physicians, 2nd Edition will help you to:
• Realize how EMTALA affects your own practice;
• Understand how to comply with the law;
• Keep abreast of changes in the rules and regulations that govern enforcement;
• Become familiar with the penalties for noncompliance with EMTALA; and
• Meet your ethical and legal responsibilities to provide care.

Identifying and Evaluating Child Abuse
Credit hours..2.0.
Credit Awarded by....University of Missouri-Columbia.
Cost...........$50.
Target Audience...PED, FP, IM, ER, OB/GYN, and other physicians who treat children.
Meets Special CME Requirements in... Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas.

Identifying and Evaluating Child Abuse will help you to:
• Perform evaluations in cases of suspected child abuse;
• Document injuries appropriately; and
• Work with law enforcement and community agencies.
This program meets special CME requirements in these states:
• Connecticut - Risk Management
• Massachusetts - Risk Management
• New York Child Abuse
• Pennsylvania Risk - Management / Patient Safety
• Texas - Medical Ethics / Professional Responsibility

Infection Control for Physicians
Credit hours...2.0 hours.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island (Universal Precautions), Rhode Island (Infection Control / Modes of Transmission) and Texas.

Infection Control for Physicians will help you to: 
• Use evidence-based risk management practices and current guidelines to control infection in health care personnel;
• Improve your knowledge and skills in blood borne infection, drug resistant organisms, and outpatient respiratory illness; and
• Meet state infection control training requirements.

Just Ask! Communicating Confidently about STDs, HIV, and Sexual Activity
Credit hours...Up to 9.0 hours.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island (Universal Precautions), Rhode Island (Infection Control / Modes of Transmission) and Texas.

Just Ask! Communicating Confidently about STDs, HIV, and Sexual Activity will help you to:
• Describe the purpose and process of HIV/STD assessment, screening, treatment, and prevention to another person, such as a patient or peer;
• Form a plan for how to integrate an HIV/STD interview into a forthcoming patient meeting.
• Conduct an HIV/STD assessment with thoroughness and clarity; and
• Screen, and when appropriate, counsel a patient according to the HIV/STD Patient Screening Skills Checklist.

Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors
Credit hours...3.0.
Awarded by....Office of Continuing Education, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors will help you to:
• Recognize how root causes and other factors contribute to errors and medical adverse events;
• Understand the difference between active and latent causes of medical adverse events;
• Manage your ethical obligation to promptly and openly disclose a medical error to a patient and their family; and
• Develop ongoing patient safety improvement efforts based on national standards and guidelines.

Risk Management and the Art of Medicine
Credit hours...3.0.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Risk Management and the Art of Medicine will help you to:
• Identify physician behaviors that lead to malpractice lawsuits;
• Explain the four elements required to prove a claim of medical malpractice;
• Incorporate strategies you can use to reduce your malpractice risk; and
• Practice medicine in a way that is consistent with recognized ethical principles.

The Human Side of Medical Errors
Credit hours...2.0.
Awarded by....Office of Continuing Education, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

The Human Side of Medical Errors will help you to:
• Deal with complex ethical issues that arise when caring for colleagues
• Share bad news with patients or families compassionately and effectively
• Participate in safe and efficient patient handoffs with other healthcare providers
• Recognize and respond appropriately to disruptive behavior that is endangering patient safety within the health care team

Domestic Violence - Connecticut Required CME:

Domestic Violence - Connecticut Required CME:

Current Management of Domestic Violence - Responding to IPV
Credit hours...Up to 16 hours.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas.

Current Management of Domestic Violence - Responding to IPV will help you to:
• Improve your skills by managing up to 17 patient cases;
• Meet your ethical and legal obligations to screen patients for intimate partner violence (IPV); and appropriately respond to disclosures of abuse; Assess the safety of IPV victims;
• Report and refer IPV victims to appropriate community agencies; and
• Work with your patients to change their violent situation.

Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse - Connecticut Required CME:

Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse - Connecticut Required CME:

Accident or Injury? Managing Abuse in Younger Children
Credit hours...2.0.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Accident or Injury? Managing Abuse in Younger Children will help you: 
Recognize and evaluate cases of suspected child physical abuse and child sexual abuse; 
Document injuries appropriately; 
Understand your responsibilities as a mandated reporter; 
Recount the investigative processes involved in suspected child abuse cases; and 
Collaborate effectively with child protective services (CPS) and law enforcement agencies.

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