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American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
Last visited...9/2008.
Reviewed by...Judy Wawira, 5th year Medical Student, Kenya.
Credit hours and Fees:
2008 ACEP Advanced Pediatric EM Assembly $71.88 per year
Emergency Department Crowding: High-Impact Solutions: free for ACP members
APLS Case Presentations
APLS "Check Your Knowledge" Online CME. 
22 credits/ $ 15 per credit
Code Orange Simulator – Computer Based On-line Multi Player Training: Free to members.
Practice Pearls: Updates in Antimicrobial Medicine: 2 credits/free.
Evidence-Based Antithrombin Management of NSTE Acute Coronary Syndrome: 1.5 credits/free.
The Emergency Practitioner and the Unhealthy Drinker: Motivating Patients for Change 1 credit/free
eACLS
Foresight $12
Awarded by....ACEP.
Instruction Type...Text-Only, Text-and-Graphics, Slide-Audio lectures, Simulations.
Target Audience...ER.
Educational material last updated...2008.
Financial support...None Stated.

Activities include: Selected Presentations from Scientific Assembly 2005, 29 Web-streaming audiovisual lectures from the 2005 ACEP emergency medicine education conference. 
Foresight, a periodical on ED risk management, awards two hours of credit in each issue. 
The Role of the Physician in Injury Control discusses the differences between "accidents" and "injuries." 
eACLS offers refresher training in Advanced Cardiac Life Support featuring 10 interactive case studies.
HeartRounds illustrates the challenges of diagnosing and treating acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) in the emergency department.
Managing the Patient with Acute Agitation in the ED presents information on the diagnosis and management of these patients.
Activities include: Selected Presentations from 2008 ACEP Advanced Pediatric EM Assembly , 2007 SA Videos, 2007 SA Audio Podcasts, and Annals of Emergency Medicine.
eACLS offers refresher training in Advanced Cardiac Life Support featuring 10 interactive case studies. Provides 6 AMA/PRA Category 1 and 6 ACEP Category I CME credits.
You can now earn CME credit for reading and studying APLS: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Resource, 4th edition and completing online CME modules.
Each Foresight issue presents strategies for reviewing and modifying emergency medicine practice to reduce exposure to liability risk.
"Focus On" - a new series of clinical articles that provide useful information to the practicing emergency physician and CME credit to those who participate. The "Focus On" series looks at an issue or topic common in everyday practice, but through a lens that highlights a state-of-the-art treatment, a new approach based on emergency medicine literature, or something innovative that will change a physician's practice.

Cleveland Clinic Symposium for Pre-Hospital and Acute Care Emergencies
Last visited...3/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD
Credit hours....A single activity (you must view all 3 lectures to earn 1.5 hours).
Awarded by....Cleveland Clinic.
Cost..........Free.
Instruct. Type...Slide-Video lectures.
Target Audiences...ER.
Educ. material last updated....2/2008.
Financial Support...Amgen, Biosite, Genentech, PDL BioPharma, Response Biomedical of Canada, Watson Pharmaceuticals.
CME Credit Expires...2/2010.

At the conclusion of this activity, you will be able to: discuss the indications and contraindications of thrombolytic therapy in the prehospital setting; explain the effect of prehospital thrombolytic use on patient outcomes; detail the beneficial outcomes from obtaining a 12-lead EKG in the prehospital setting; list the prehospital and field presentations of dyspnea; assess and manage CHF, COPD, and pneumonia in the prehospital patient and in the ED; list medical indications for dialysis treatment; review how common medical emergencies seen in the prehospital setting ( dyspnea, bleeding from shunt, fluid overload, electrolyte imbalances) affect dialysis patients; and describe the rationale for the assessment and treatment of hyperkalemia in the prehospital and ED setting.

CMEDownload.com
Last visited...11/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...295 CME-credit lectures offering a total of 149 hours. (Also many other non-credit lectures)
Awarded by....American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
Cost...........Yearly subscription costs $295 for online access only or $395 for online access plus a DVD of all lectures. 
Instruction Type...Slide-Video Lectures; also video podcast and audio podcast..
Target Audiences....ER.
Educational material last updated....2009.
Financial Support...None Stated.
Credit expires: 3 years after posting.

CMEDownload.com records lectures delivered at live meetings and presents them in a wide-screen side-by-side format. Currently 295 CME-credit lectures are available on the website with 149 hours of Category 1 CME. Lectures focus on emergency medicine, trauma, critical care and pediatrics as well as special courses in EKG reading, ultrasonography, airway management and emergency procedures. In addition, ongoing short video podcasts are also included.

DVT/PE Open (Deep Vein Thrombosis Pulmonary Embolus Cyberounds)
Last visited...2/2009
Reviewed by Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...9.0.
Awarded by....Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instruction Type...Interactive Game.
Target Audiences...Not Stated, probably best suited to ER, CRITICAL CARE and PULM.
Educational material last updated....2007
Financial Support...Sanofi Aventis.
CME Credit Expires...Sept 29, 2009.

The Cyberounds® DVT/PE Open is an interactive CME golf program on the treatment and management of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

EMedHome.com CME Center
Last visited...7/2009.
Credit hours..."Over 60."
Awarded by....EMedHome.
Cost..........$79 per year.
Instruction Type...
Target Audience....ER.
Educ. material last updated...Monthly
Financial support...None Stated.
Credit Expires...One year after posting.

You must pay the annual subscription fee before you can view any content except for the titles of the various activities. Some recent titles are: Intracranial Hemorrhage; Shoulder Dislocations; Acute MI in Left Bundle Branch Block; Mythbuster: Acute Pericarditis—Appendicitis of the Heart; Disorders of Glucose Homeostasis: Both Ends of the Spectrum; High Risk ECGs; The Crashing Asthmatic and COPD Patient: Pearls and Pitfalls; Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum; and Just Another Diaper Dermatitis?

EMedHome LLSA CME Program
Last visited...7/2009.
Credit hours...35 for each set of articles.
Awarded by....American College of Emergency Physicians.
Cost..........$75 (credit only).
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics, Question-and-Answer..
Target Audience....ER.
Educ. material last updated...2009.
Financial support...None Stated.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine's Continuous Certification (LLSA) program requires the reading of designated articles each year. In order to maintain board certification, Emergency Physicians must complete the annual Lifelong Learning Self-Assessment (LLSA) test on the ABEM website based upon the contents of these articles. eMedHome offers access to the 20 articles required by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and 35 hours of CME credit for reading the articles and answering the related questions.

Emergency Medicine Practice and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice
Last visited...5/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...4 credits per month per journal (48 credits/per annual subscription). These are two separate journals.
Awarded by....Mount Sinal School of Medicine.
Cost...........$299 per 1-year subscription. Individual issues may be purchased for $30.
Instruction Type...Text and Graphics.
Target Audiences....ER, PED.
Educational material last updated...Monthly.
Financial Support...None.
CME credit expires: AMA Cat 1: 3 years from published date, AAFP Prescribed: 2 years from published date.

Emergency Medicine Practice and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice are online journals focusing on one topic per issue, most often based on a single complaint; within that topic, ED evaluation (including history and findings), differential diagnosis, diagnostic studies, treatment (including pharmacological therapies), special circumstances, controversies, common pitfalls and patient disposition are covered.

Harvard Medical School Online CME
Last visited...2/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...57 courses; total about  164 hours. (Most courses are 1 to 5 hours; there are two extensive ER courses, 20 hours each).
Awarded by....Harvard Medical School.
Cost for Credit......$20 per hour. (The review courses cost about $10 per hour.
Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
Target Audiences...ER, IM, FP, GEN, GERO.
Educational material last updated...2009.
Financial Support...None Stated.

The largest activities, in terms of hours, are the Emergency Medicine Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) Reviews for 2005 and 2006, each offering 20 hours. There are 13 activities concerned with genetics and 6 in geriatrics. Most of the remaining courses are in general medicine.

Medscape Emergency Medicine
Last visited...10/2009.
Reviewed by... Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours... Over 50 hours in 38 programs currently. 
Awarded by....Medscape and many other sponsoring organizations.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics, Text-Only, Slide-Audio Lecture, Slide-Video Lecture and Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....ENDO.
Educational material last updated...7/2008. New activities posted frequently.
Financial Support...Many academic, specialty, and commercial sources as well as WebMD.
Expiration of CME Credit...Credit for most activities expires one year after posting. 

CME activities of special interest to emergency specialists. Medscape contains a variety of educational formats:
CONFERENCE COVERAGE - Reports of  advances presented at major medical conferences; typically includes several tracks with news stories, expert interviews, and in-depth topic overviews.
CLINICAL UPDATE - Comprehensive original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.
FAST TRACK CLINICAL UPDATE – Narrowly focused original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.
CME-LIVE - Real-time online events with streaming video, synchronized visuals, and interactive questions and answers; archived for 1 year.
NEWS-CME - Daily reports of major current medical research articles; 0.25 credits each
JOURNAL CME - Articles selected from a wide selection of conference reports and peer-reviewed journals, including MedscapeGeneralMedicine (MedGenMed).
SPECIAL REPORT CME – Topic-based monthly email newsletter distributed to Medscape’s professional member database by specialty.
INTERACTIVE PATIENT CASES – Original CME activity presented to the physician in an interactive, clinical case-based format. 
CME CIRCLE – Multimedia content certified by other accredited professional education providers, typically from live symposia or monographs, and then posted on Medscape and archived for one year.

ThrombosisClinic.com
Last visited...10/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...About 26 courses, each offering 0,5 to 6.5 hours, for a  total of about 49 hours of credit.
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. 
Educ. material last updated....2009.
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. The newest activities include: New Anticoagulants for Prevention and Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism; ThrombosisClinic Vol. 3, No. 2 (new information on how to treat patients with acute coronary syndrome); and Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke (efficacy and safety of antiplatelet agents, anticoagulant agents, and mechanical methods for thromboprophylaxis).