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The Brigham Critical Care Board Review Course (Sponsored Link) Last visited...2/2012.  Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...24.75. Awarded by....Harvard Medical School. Cost...........$995 to $1395 (varies according to format). Purchase this course during February 2012, and receive a $100 Best Buy gift card.  Use coupon code BESTBUYA. Instruction Type...Slide-Video Lectures. Format...Video DVD, Video MP4, Audio CD, Audio MP3 DVD and others. Target Audiences....CRITICAL CARE, HOSPITAL MEDICINE. Educational material last updated....October 1, 2010. Financial Support...None Stated. Expiration of CME credit...September 30, 2013.

The major objective of The Brigham Critical Care Board Review Course is to prepare you for the ABIM Subspecialty Board Examination in Critical Care (Certification/Re-Certification). The course conveys state-of-the-art information on a wide spectrum of clinical problems that reflect the curriculum in critical care medicine for the ABIM examination.  The pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of shock and respiratory failure is addressed. The spectrum of subspecialty areas—cardiac, renal, GI, hematologic, nutrition, obstetric, neurologic, infectious disease, endocrine, and trauma/burns is covered. Management of ventilator, fluid, acid-base and electrolyte problems is addressed. By participating in  The Brigham Critical Care Board Review Course, you will be able to: • Understand current pathophysiological mechanisms key to critical illness; • Develop knowledge in the diagnosis, monitoring, and management of critically ill patients; • Develop expertise in the management of subspecialty areas within critical care medicine; and • Become facile in answering simulated-board questions.

CMEInfo - Thoracic Imaging from The Society of Thoracic Radiology (Sponsored Link) Last visited...2/2012.  Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...27.5. Awarded by....Society of Thoracic Radiology. Cost..........$1095. Purchase this course during February 2012, and receive a $100 Best Buy gift card.  Use coupon code BESTBUYA. Instruction Type...Slide-Video Lectures. Format...Video DVD, Video MP4, Audio CD, Audio MP3 DVD and others. Target Audience...THORACIC SURGERY, RADIOLOGY. Educational material last updated...July 1, 2010. Financial Support...None Stated.  Expiration of CME credit...June 30, 2012.

Thoracic Imaging from the Society of Thoracic Radiology features internationally recognized experts in imaging of the lungs, heart, thoracic vasculature, mediastinum and pleura, and includes the following: • Coronary and cardiac imaging (CT, MRI); • Aortic and pulmonary vascular imaging; • Diffuse infiltrative lung disease; • Imaging of the airways; • Solitary pulmonary nodule evaluation; • Lung cancer update: the revised staging system and its applications; • Update in thoracic imaging technology and radiation dose reduction; • Intensive care and post-operative imaging; and • Pulmonary infections.

Projects In Knowledge Advanced Certificate Program: Lung Cancer Management III  (Sponsored Link) Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...Credit hours...14 activities, ranging from 0.75 to 1.5 per course, for a total of up to 13.5 credits. Awarded by.....Projects In Knowledge. Cost............Free. Instruction Type....Text, Slides, and Audio Lectures. Target Audience....ONCO. Educational material last updated....2010. Financial Support...Genentech BioOncology and OSI Oncology. CME Credit Expires...One year after release date of each course.

This free yearlong CME/CE program provides clinicians with up-to-date information about the management of lung cancer, featuring an expert faculty co-chaired by Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, and Corey J. Langer, MD, FACP, and a comprehensive curriculum of web-based courses. Get timely and practical information that you can immediately use in caring for your patients with lung cancer. Topic areas covered include: NCCN treatment guidelines, risk factors and risk assessment, screening and early detection, diagnosis, staging using TNM classification of malignant tumors in NSCLC and using limited stage and extensive stages in SCLC, bronchioloalveolar carcinoma, and PCI in lung cancer.  See the complete list of Projects In Knowledge Free CME.

OncologyCareLive-Lung Cancers Virtual Education Summit Entering an Era of More Personalized Treatment in Lung Cancer: Increasing Patient Survival Rates (Sponsored Link) Live on October 12, 2011, and now available on demand through April 13, 2012. Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...4.0. Awarded by....Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Cost...........Free. Instruction Type...Slide-Video Lectures, Q & A, Live Chat. Target Audiences...Medical Oncologists, Radiation Oncologists, Pulmonologists, and Oncology Nurses involved in caring for patients with lung cancer. (Also, Internists, Family Physicians, Nurses and Advanced Practice Nurses, Physician Assistants, and Pharmacists.) Educational material last updated...October 12, 2011. Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.  Expiration of CME credit...April 13, 2012.

OncologyCareLive-Lung Cancers Virtual Education Summit was presented live on October 12, 2011, and is now available on demand through April 13, 2012. Presentations include: • Are We Ready to Move to Annual Screening for Lung Cancer in High Risk Patients?;  • Recent Developments in Targeted Therapy for NSCLC; • Application of advancements in biomarker identification to clinical practice in patients with NSCLC. Is it ready for primetime?; and • Optimizing Therapy Choices in Patients with SCLC. After participating in OncologyCareLive-Lung Cancers Virtual Education Summit, you will be able to: •Practice early diagnosis of lung cancer so that patients may be found at less advanced, more treatable stages of the disease; • Explain the importance of biomarkers that affect therapeutic efficacy so that patients most likely to benefit from a particular therapy can be identified; • Identify targeted therapies available for the treatment of NSCLC and when and how to integrate them in combination with chemotherapy; and • Discuss current research data on treatment options for patients with SCLC.

CMEInfo Thrombosis and Thromboembolism (Sponsored Link) Last visited...2/2012.  Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...13.5. Awarded by....Harvard Medical School. Cost...........$375 to $575 (varies according to format). Instruction Type...Slide-Video Lecture. Format...Video DVD, Video MP4, Audio CD, Audio MP3 DVD and others. Target Audience...CARD, CRIT CARE, CHEST MEDICINE, HEMATOLOGY, VASCULAR SURGERY Educational material last updated....2009. Financial Support...None Stated. Expiration of CME credit...May 31, 2012.

The Harvard Thrombosis and Thromboembolism course provides an overview of critical developments in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of venous and arterial thromboembolic disorders. Areas covered are: New guidelines to manage acute myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, and DVT; Antithrombotic therapy with low molecular weight heparin, fondaparinux, and antiplatelet therapy for acute coronary syndromes; Drug-eluting coronary stents and percutaneous coronary interventions; Novel drug therapies such as oral anti factor Xa agents, and oral direct thrombin inhibitors; Idiopathic and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia; and Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of venous thromboembolism.

Audio-Digest Comprehensive Reviews Respiratory Medicine (Sponsored Link) Last visited...2/2012.  Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...10 issues (2 hours per issue) for total of 20 hours. Awarded by....Audio-Digest Foundation. Cost...........$169 for MP3; $199 for Audio CD Format...Online MP3, Audio CD. Target Audiences...CHEST MEDICINE Educational material last updated...2010. Financial Support...None Stated.  Expiration of CME credit...Three years after release.

Audio-Digest Comprehensive Reviews Respiratory Medicine includes ten of the most significant topics in respiratory medicine. Topics include: Dyspnea and pneumonia; Diseases of the airway; Managing diseases of the airway; What's new in pediatric asthma ; Threats to lung function; Techniques in airway management; Pediatric airways; An asthma tutorial; Update on asthma; and Lung disease. See the complete list of Audio-Digest Programs in other specialties.

Practical Reviews in Chest Medicine (Sponsored Link) Last visited...2/2012.  Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...24 or 48 per year (2 or 4 hours per month). Awarded by....Johns Hopkins. Cost..........Varies from $349 to $898 according to the number of issues per year (14 or 28) and the audio format you choose. Format...Text Plus Audio (Online Audio Only or Online Audio plus Audio CD). Target Audience...CHEST MED. Educational material updated...monthly. Financial Support...None Stated. Expiration of CME credit...Two years after date of publication.

Practical Reviews in Chest Medicine keeps you informed of the most important research and clinical findings published in Chest Medicine each month. Each issue contains: downloadable audio of 10-12 articles summarized and reviewed; downloadable PDF of written reviews with Take-Home Pearls that reinforce the audio material and give you a valuable reference for instant recall by subject; and self-assessment online quizzes to highlight key points and reinforce what you've learned.

Practical Reviews On-Demand  (Sponsored Link) Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...Unlimited. See ==> Awarded by....Johns Hopkins. Cost..........$599 for Unlimited CME in 30+ Specialties for One year. Format...Text Plus Audio (Online and downloadable). Target Audience...30+ specialties. Educational material updated monthly. Financial Support...None Stated.

Practical Reviews On-Demand offers: • Unlimited online access to more than 30 specialties;  • Unlimited CME/CE credits with your one-year subscription; • Stay current on sub-specialty topics; • Search the Practical Reviews database; download that information to your computer and update with important articles for quick reference; • Review key points and strengthen what you’ve learned with online self-assessment quizzes.

Free CME Chest Medicine (Pulmonology). Many CME activities listed below offer  Free Chest Medicine (Pulmonology) CME. Look for "Cost...Free" on the left side of each entry.

Free CME Chest Medicine (Pulmonology). Many CME activities listed below offer  Free Chest Medicine (Pulmonology) CME.  Look for "Cost...Free" on the left side of each entry.

American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...34 activities offering a total of 87 hours. Awarded by....American College of Chest Physicians. Cost for Credit....Free or $5-25 per hour (see individual activity) Instruction Type....Text-Only, Streaming Video, Slide-Audio Lecture AND Case-Based Interactive. Target Audiences...CHEST MEDICINE, CRITICAL CARE, HOSPITAL MEDICINE. Educational material last updated.....2011 Financial Support...Some activities have industry support.	The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) offers CME in two categories: Pulmonary and Critical Care Update (PCCSU); and Chest Soundings. These are described in detail below.
Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Update (PCCSU) Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...1.0 per lesson (24 hours per year; possible maximum of 72 hours) Awarded by....American College of Chest Physicians. Cost for Credit....Free for members of the ACCP; $192 for 24 hours for non-members (payable in advance; this fee is from previous visit; I could not find the current fee). Instruction Type....Text-Only. Target Audiences...CHEST MEDICINE, CRITICAL CARE. Educational material last updated.....Monthly. CME Credit Expires...3 years after posting. Financial Support...None Stated.	Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Update (PCCSU) is the major offering from the ACCP. Each month, this online journal provides two lessons on pulmonary and critical care topics. Some recent topics are:  • Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis; • Minimally Invasive Techniques for Diagnosing and Staging Lung Cancer; • Caring for the Critically Ill, Obese Patient; • Building-Related Illnesses; • Sarcoidosis: New Concepts in Cause and Treatment; and • Necrotizing Fasciitis and Deep Soft Tissue Infections in the ICU; • Acid-Base Disorders.
Chest Soundings Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...10 activities, each offering 1.5 hours. Awarded by....American College of Chest Physicians. Cost for Credit....Free. Instruction Type....Slide-Video Lectures. Target Audiences...CHEST MEDICINE, CRITICAL CARE. Educational material last updated.....2011. Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.	Most lectures were presented at a January, 2011 meeting. Some titles are: • Bronchoscopy Basics: Sedation, Analgesia, Difficult Airways, and Troubleshooting; • Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension; • Controversies in the Management of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Pro/Con Debate; • Cystic Fibrosis: Guidelines for Care 2010; • Emerging Drugs in the Treatment of COPD; • Emerging Therapies in PAH; and • Management of Drug-Resistant Respiratory Infections.

Asthma IQ (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology) Last visited....2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...20.  Awarded by....American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI). Cost for Credit.....Free. Instruction Type....Performance Improvement. Target Audiences....ALLG, CHEST MEDICINE. Educational material last updated...2008. Financial Support...None Stated.

The “Asthma Specialist Tool to Help Manage Asthma and Improve Quality” (ASTHMA IQ) will help clinicians to: use evidence-based medicine to make treatment decisions; graph and report patients’ asthma status over time; analyze statistics for the asthma patients in their practice; report quality improvement measures for Maintenance of Certification or Pay for Performance. This course is available only to AAAAI members or upon invitation.

Baylor Pulmonology Last visited...2/2012.  Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...2activities each offering 1.0 hours. Credit Awarded by....Baylor University. Cost...........Free. Instruction Type...Slide- Video Lectures, Q & A, Live Chat. Target Audience...CHEST MED. Educational material last updated...2011. Financial support...None Stated.

Two activities: Virtual Pulmonary Clinic - Gus Visit 1: A Middle-aged Male Experiencing Greater Challenges with His Diagnosis of COPD; and Virtual Pulmonary Clinic - Gus Visit 2: A Middle-aged Male Presenting with Symptoms of Advanced COPD.

Cleveland Clinic Pulmonology Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD Credit hours....12 activities offering a total of 7 hours. Awarded by....Cleveland Clinic. Cost..........Free. Instruct. Type...Slide-Video and Slide-Audio Lectures, Podcasts, Text-Only. Target Audiences...PULMO. Educational material last updated....2011. Financial Support...Some activities have commercial support. CME Credit Expires...2 years after posting.

Some recent activities include:  • Patient with Early Stage Lung Cancer and Severe Emphysema: Balancing the Treatment Options; • Biologics and the Liver - Is IL6 a Target of Concern? • A 49-year-old woman with a persistent cough; • Advances in Asthma; • Airway pressure release ventilation: An alternative mode of mechanical ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome; • Air travel and venous thromboembolism: Minimizing the risk; and • Influenza.

Differentiating COPD from Other Respiratory Diseases Using Spirometry Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...1.5 hours. Awarded by....University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. Cost for Credit....Free. Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive Target Audiences....FP, IM, CHEST MED. Educational material last updated...2010. Financial support...Pfizer Medical Education Group. CME Credit Expires...December 31, 2011.

By participating in this course, you will receive information and practice skills that should allow you to use spirometry to: • Rapidly and objectively assess airflow obstruction and restrictive conditions; • Differentiate between COPD and other respiratory conditions; • Diagnose earlier and monitor of disease progression of COPD; and • Quantify the severity of airflow obstruction and disease severity.

eCysticFibrosis Review Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...1.0 per newsletter, 0.5 per podcast. There are presently 9 newsletters and 6 podcasts. Awarded by.... Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Cost...........Free. Instruction Type...Text-Only (pdf) or audio podcast Target Audience...CHEST MED, PED, GI, ID. Educational material last updated...2011; Monthly issues. Financial support...Various pharmaceutical companies. CME Credit Expires...2 years after posting.

Each month, participants receive an email linking to a current topic in cystic fibrosis. You can also view or listen to any of the archived subjects at the web site. Some topics currently available for credit are:  Pulmonary Exacerbation Therapies; Highlights of the 34th European Cystic Fibrosis Conference; New Inhalation Therapies; State-of-the-Art Treatment for CF Lung Disease; and Vitamin D and Bone Health.. By participating in ongoing eCysticFibrosis Reviews, you should be better able to: •  Incorporate the current recommended protocols for managing respiratory tract infections and mucus reduction;  •  Summarize key finding in managing nutritional deficiencies;  • Assess new treatment options for the prevention and management of infectious diseases in CF patients;  •  Discuss current modalities and patient selection criteria for the delivery of treatment agents  • Integrate evidence-based therapy adherence interventions;  •  Recognize the symptoms of concomitant diseases in older CF patients and how the information presented may impact current clinical paradigms; and  •  Describe the most current treatment protocols for fungal infections

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI) Online CME Program (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology) Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours....51 articles and quizzes each offering 1.0 credit. Awarded by....AAAAI. Cost for Credit....Free. Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics. Target Audiences...ALLG, PULM. Educational material last updated....2011. Financial Support...None Stated.

Some recent articles and quizzes include: •  Using biomarkers in the assessment of airways disease; •  Approaches to stepping up and stepping down care in asthmatic patients; •  Subcutaneous immunotherapy; •  Genetics and phenotyping in chronic sinusitis; •  Chronic rhinosinusitis: Epidemiology and medical management; •  What effect does asthma treatment have on airway remodeling? and •  Remodeling in asthma.

NEJM Weekly CME Program Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours ...One per exam, three per week. (Total of about 140 hours now available). Awarded by....Massachusetts Medical Society. Cost..........Free to subscribers to NEJM; $15 (or $100 for bundles of ten) for non-subscribers). Instruction  Type....Text-and-Graphics. Target Audiences....FP, IM, IM subspecialists. Educational material last updated....Weekly. Financial Support...None Stated.

Each week, three articles in the New England Journal of Medicine have a companion CME exam available online. You can earn up to one CME credit for each exam successfully completed. NEJM subscribers receive 20 online exams per year as part of their subscription. Non-subscribers may pay on an hourly basis ($15 per single credit or $100 for 10 exams) and read the articles and take the exams completely online.

OncologyCareLive-Lung Cancers Virtual Education Summit Entering an Era of More Personalized Treatment in Lung Cancer: Increasing Patient Survival Rates Live on October 12, 2011, and now available on demand through April 13, 2012. Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...4.0. Awarded by....Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Cost...........Free. Instruction Type...Slide-Video Lectures, Q & A, Live Chat. Target Audiences...Medical Oncologists, Radiation Oncologists, Pulmonologists, and Oncology Nurses involved in caring for patients with lung cancer. (Also, Internists, Family Physicians, Nurses and Advanced Practice Nurses, Physician Assistants, and Pharmacists.) Educational material last updated...October 12, 2011. Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.  Expiration of CME credit...April 13, 2012.

OncologyCareLive-Lung Cancers Virtual Education Summit was presented live on October 12, 2011, and is now available on demand through April 13, 2012. Presentations include: • Are We Ready to Move to Annual Screening for Lung Cancer in High Risk Patients?;  • Recent Developments in Targeted Therapy for NSCLC; • Application of advancements in biomarker identification to clinical practice in patients with NSCLC. Is it ready for primetime?; and • Optimizing Therapy Choices in Patients with SCLC. After participating in OncologyCareLive-Lung Cancers Virtual Education Summit, you will be able to: •Practice early diagnosis of lung cancer so that patients may be found at less advanced, more treatable stages of the disease; • Explain the importance of biomarkers that affect therapeutic efficacy so that patients most likely to benefit from a particular therapy can be identified; • Identify targeted therapies available for the treatment of NSCLC and when and how to integrate them in combination with chemotherapy; and • Discuss current research data on treatment options for patients with SCLC.

PILOT (Pulmonary fibrosis Identification: Lessons for Optimizing Treatment) Last Visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit Hours: 5 activities offering a total of 3.75 hours. (plus Point of Care, see ===>) Awarded by...The France Foundation. Cost….Free. Instruction Type…Text-Only, Slide-Only, Podcast, Case-Based-Interactive, Point of Care. Target Audiences…PULMO, RAD, PATH. Educational material last updated….2011. Financial Support…InterMune.

PILOT focuses on the early diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and disease intervention and management. Credit has expired for most activities. The current offerings include: 2 Interactive Cases, 1.0 hour each; 1 monograph: Assessment of IPF,  2.0 hours; Peer-to-Peer Dialogue: 3 audio-only discussions between experts, 0.25 hour each; Point of Care CME: structured, self-directed online learning that enables you to earn CME credit for researching questions relevant to your clinical practice, 0.5 hour per question.

Practical Reviews in Chest Medicine Last visited...2/2012.  Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...24 or 48 per year (2 or 4 hours per month). Awarded by....Johns Hopkins. Cost..........Varies from $349 to $898 according to the number of issues per year (14 or 28) and the audio format you choose. Format...Text Plus Audio (Online Audio Only or Online Audio plus Audio CD). Target Audience...CHEST MED. Educational material updated... monthly. Financial Support...None Stated. Expiration of CME credit...Two years after date of publication.

Practical Reviews in Chest Medicine keeps you informed of the most important research and clinical findings published in Chest Medicine each month. Each issue contains: downloadable audio of 10-12 articles summarized and reviewed; downloadable PDF of written reviews with Take-Home Pearls that reinforce the audio material and give you a valuable reference for instant recall by subject; and self-assessment online quizzes to highlight key points and reinforce what you've learned.

ThrombosisClinic.com Last visited...2/2012. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...3 courses, offering  a  total of 7 hours.  Awarded by....Elsevier Office of Continuing Medical Education. Cost...........Free. Instruction Type...Slide-Audio/Video, Text-Audio, Slide-Text, and Text-Only. Target Audience...CARD, ER, SURG.  Educational material last updated....2011. Financial Support...sanofi-aventis and various other pharmaceutical companies.

This site is for physicians (especially cardiologists, ER specialists and surgeons) who have an interest in the prevention and management of thrombosis. You will find one activity in Arterial Thrombosis: Oral antithrombotic therapies — patients with atrial fibrillation (2.5 Hours); and 2 activities in Venous Thrombosis: Future Alternatives to Warfarin (0.5 Hour) and Associated Risks of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With Cancer Effective Prophylaxis for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in...(4.0 Hours)