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The sites described on this page are primarily for internists. You will find other online CME sites and courses concerning Internal Medicine at the main online CME site. |
ACP
Medicine Online Version |
The Online Edition of ACP Medicine offers "the latest evidence and ... recommendations on diagnosis and treatment from over 200 of the world's leading specialists." Its chapters cover eleven major subspecialties of internal medicine; women's health; geriatrics; palliative medicine; psychology; dermatology; and neurology. A subscription to ACP Medicine Online Version includes twelve online tests, each test offering ten CME credits. |
ACP MKSAP 15 Digital Edition
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Over 1,000 multiple-choice questions and over 2,500 pages of supporting content are organized into 11 books covering the gamut of Internal Medicine: Cardiovascular Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hematology, Oncology, Neurology, Rheumatology, Dermatology, Endocrinology, General Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care. Self-assessment format provides immediate feedback with full critiques explaining not only the correct answer but also the rationale and evidence and explanations for each incorrect item, as well. |
AMAprimarycare.org
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Current subjects include depression (6 hours), Parkinson's disease (4 hours) and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (6 hours). |
AMA Therapeutic Insights
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AMA Therapeutic Insights is a "disease-specific CME newsletter with the latest treatment guidelines and unprecedented prescribing data views." The four newsletters are: Management of depression in primary care; Current management of dyslipidemia; Initial treatment of type 2 diabetes--oral hypoglycemics; and Diagnosis and Treatment of Migraines. |
American
Diabetes Association Self-Assessment Program (ADA-SAP™) - Module 2-
Pharmacological Treatment of Hyperglycemia
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This program is designed to assess and strengthen your knowledge of diabetes and provide you with a better understanding of the options available for managing patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. You can complete this program at your own pace. After you answer 75 multiple choice questions, the program directs you to a discussion of the correct responses. |
American
Kidney Fund
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A single activity, Identifying Chronic Kidney Disease and Slowing Its Progression. After completing this course, you will be able to "describe the demographics of the CKD population; list the medical interventions needed to prevent or slow the progression of CKD; identify complications associated with the progression of CKD; and recognize the importance of early referral to a nephrologist." |
California
Academy of Family Physicians Online CME (CAFP)
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Activities are: Shrinking Health Care Disparities in Women: The Depression Dilemma; Opioid Abuse in Chronic Pain; Diagnosis and Treatment of Adult ADHD; Treating Musculoskeletal Pain; The Diabetes Dilemma; COPD: Putting Guidelines Into Practice; and Chronic Pain With a Focus on Neuropathic Pain. |
Cleveland Clinic Medicine Today: Internal Medicine Webcast Series |
This series presents topics from the Division of Medicine's Medical Grand Rounds. Some recent topics are: Bariatric Surgery; Statin Treatment in African-Americans; Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; The Future of Platelet Transfusion. |
Cleveland
Clinic Disease
Management Project Clinical Decisions Cases |
This series applies practice guidelines to clinical practice. Each case includes didactic information as well as interactive |
Cleveland Clinic
Journal of Medicine
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You will find the full text and the CME questions from the last 12 months of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. Articles in the January issue include: Acetaminophen: Old drug, new warnings; Lesions on the hands, high aminotransferase levels; Myelodysplastic syndromes: A practical approach to diagnosis and treatment; Food allergy and eosinophilic esophagitis: Learning what to avoid; and Abdominal pain in a 20-year-old woman. |
Clinical Cornerstone
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Each issue provides up to 8 CME or AAFP credits. Supplements provide up to 3 credits. CME tests and evaluation must be completed on paper and faxed or mailed. Topics include: Management of Osteoporosis; Prevention of Thromboembolic Events; and Cardiometabolic Risk Management; Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Children; Advances in Cardiometabolic Health; Neutropenia; Abdominal Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Risk; Osteoporosis in the Male Patient; Early Intervention for Optimal Outcomes; Dyslipidemia In Metabolic Syndrome; Realizing Near-Normoglycemia; and Treatment Options for Thyroid Disease. |
Clinical
Directors Network (CDN) - Clinical Leadership Webcasts
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Clinical Directors Network, Inc. (CDN) is dedicated to providing and improving primary and preventive health care services for poor, minority, and underserved populations. CDN online training sessions contain about 35 tracks including Access To Care; Adolescent Health; Alternative Medicine; Asthma/Pulmonary; Bioterrorism; Cancer Prevention and Care; Cardiovascular Disease/Hypertension; Clinical Ethics; Clinical Informatics; Clinical Leadership; Clinical Research; Cultural Competency; Dental/Oral Medicine; Depression/Mental Health; Diabetes; Geriatric Medicine; Health Disparities; HIV/AIDS; and many more. These sessions are delivered on a weekly basis by content experts from the specific clinical fields. Once the live session is completed, webcasts are added to the archived webcast database. Viewers can fill out an online CME questionnaire to receive CME certificate via email. |
CMELectures.org
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Online lectures are presented in Grand Rounds format. Presentations are authored by more than 100 physician educators, most of whom have contributed to the basic text in their specialty. A record of lectures and credits are stored in a personal file for each subscriber. |
Consultant.Live.com | Each issue of this online journal presents a photograph and accompanying clinical information for two patients. The program asks you to select a diagnosis from a list of possibilities, then follows with a didactic presentation based on the correct diagnosis. Each case offers 0.5 hour of CME credit. |
Crescent
(Secondary Hyperparathyroidism) |
Crescent intends to increase your understanding of the physiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism
in patients with chronic kidney disease. There are three types of instruction: |
Cyberounds "Conferences" (Text-Only) |
Cyberounds was the first producer of online CME, beginning in 1996. There are programs in 16 specialties, developed by a panel of academic clinicians from 15 U.S. medical schools. |
Drexel
University College of
Medicine Virtual Grand Rounds
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There are 37 lectures on general internal medicine and medical subspecialty areas. Some lectures are almost 5 years old (2005) but have been recently reviewed and are eligible for credit. Recent subjects include: The Role of the Electronic Medical Record in Medical Malpractice; Beta-Blockers in Hypertension; Which Anti-RAAS Shall We Use?; Vaccination: A New Approach to RAAS Inhibition?; Pathophysiology of Clinical Disorders of Renal Tubular Electrolyte Reabsorption & Causes of Hypertension vs. Hypotension; and C. difficile – A Community Epidemic. Courses can be sorted by topic, date or speaker. |
Harvard
Medical School Intensive Review of Internal Medicine | This offering consists of ten modules, each of which is counted and priced as a separate course: Cardiology, Pulmonary, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Rheumatology, Endocrine, General Internal Medicine, Critical Care, Hematology and Nephrology. |
Internet-based Studies in Education and Research
(University of Pittsburgh) | The major offering at this site is now UPMC Presbyterian Medical Grand Rounds, a set of 50 slide-video lectures, mostly aimed at internists. Another section contains 30 modules on angiogenesis with special emphasis on angiogenesis in ophthalmology. There are 2 grand rounds presentations in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; 4 activities concerning Mental Health and Substance Abuse Problems of Older Adults; 3 in pediatrics; and 6 from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Public Health Practice. |
Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine CME Programs | Click on CME Programs to get started. The site offers courses in 23 medical specialty areas. Many courses have "CME expired" noted: make sure that is not the case if you need CME credits. New topics include: acne, pandemic influenza, Alzheimer's, MS, CNS malignancies, asthma management. 2008 special topic, Johns Hopkins Consultative Medicine Essentials for Hospitalists. Eight (8) interactive, case-based modules released in pairs beginning May 2008. |
Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine Journal | You will find 36 issues of Advanced Studies in Medicine. Each issue offers a set of CME Clinical Evaluation Articles (3 Credit Hours). In addition, each issue has a "Case of the Month" offering 0.25 hours of credit. The most recent issue (May 2006) contains these articles: Update on Pharmacologic Strategies for Atrial Fibrillation; Early Ovarian Cancer; and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes. The "Case of the Month" features a 20-year-old morbidly obese woman presenting with progressive enlargement of her legs. |
Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management | The Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to helping physicians and managed care decision makers improve outcomes of care. Each issue of this journal contains an article offering one hour of CME credit. You may read the abstract without charge, but to read the entire article and earn credit, you must first pay $9. Some recent subjects are: Gallstone Disease; Preeclampsia; Primary Care Management of the Patient with Cirrhosis; Postoperative Delirium; and Anorexia Nervosa. |
Medscape
Internal Medicine
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CME activities of special interest to internists. Medscape contains
a variety of educational formats:
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Medscape Nephrology
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CME activities of special interest to nephrologists. Medscape contains
a variety of educational formats:
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NEJM
Weekly CME Program
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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. |
National Diabetes
Education Initiative (NDEI) |
The National Diabetes
Education Initiative (NDEI) offers several kinds of activities, all related
to Type 2 Diabetes. |
Practical Reviews in Internal Medicine |
Each issue contains: downloadable audio of 24-28 articles summarized and reviewed in each issue; 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. |
Primary
Care Education
Network Online CME
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You will find 3 types of CME activities: Online CME contains 17 slide-audio lectures, many dealing with diabetes; Primary Issues eNewsletter features 12 downloadable pdf newsletters on a variety of topics; and 25 Podcasts, also on a variety of topics. There is considerable overlap between the topics in the 3 types of activities. |
Pri-Med Online | Instruction falls into 5 categories: Patient Case Studies, Slide Lecture Series, Clinical Reviews, Expert Perspectives and Morning Reports; content of these instructions is in 21 Condition Centers: Alzheimer's / Dementia; Anxiety; Asthma; Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy; Cancer in Primary Care; Depression; Diabetes; Dyslipidemia; GI Motility Disorders; Heart Failure; HEENT; Hypertension; Infectious Disease; Migraine; Obesity; Overactive Bladder; Pain Management; Pediatrics; Sleep Disorders; Vascular Disorders and Women's Health. |
Projects In Knowledge Living Medical Textbook - Osteoporosis - Fracture Prevention and Therapeutic Management
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Five chapters at present: Overview of Osteoporosis; Identifying Patients at Risk for Osteoporosis and Fractures; Assessment of Fracture Risk Using FRAX®; Treatment of Osteoporosis; and Management of the Postfracture Patient. |
Projects
in Knowledge Osteoporosis Compendium
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The Osteoporosis Compendium is comprised of 28 courses. You may select courses that suit your particular needs or interests. Earn a Certificate of Achievement upon the successful completion of 5 courses. You may earn up to 5 Certificates of Achievement. Complete ALL 28 courses and earn the Compendium Certificate of Advanced Study.
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Southern Medical Association's MedEd On-Demand
| Lectures are organized into groups. Some of the newer groups are: Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Disorders; Osteoporosis; Ask The Experts; and Practice Management. You can also search for lectures by keyword. |
Southern Medical Journal | Each monthly online journal offers one to three hours of CME credit. Some recent articles are: Control of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Use of Aspirin in Diabetic Patients Remain Elusive; Platelet Function in Patients with Depression; Brain Abscess and Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia; Human Trafficking and the Healthcare Professional; C-Reactive Protein: The Harbinger of Cardiovascular Diseases; and Endobronchial Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Lung Cancer. |
Theory into Practice CME for PCPs
(TiPS)
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In these courses, you will participate as part of a group of learners, and you will use your own patient charts as well as learning from didactic presentations. Three courses are presently available: Advising Patients on Advance Directives (2.5 hours); Stepping up to Insulin in Type 2 Diabetes (10 hours); and Physician Counseling to Enhance Adherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines (10 hours). Additional hours are available from the 2nd and 3rd activity if you participate in the Card Study and Performance Activity Study. You should listen to the "Learn More Audio Presentation" and also view the individual course demo before registering. |
University
of California at Davis (UCDHS) Continuing Medical Education Self-Study
Modules
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Lectures on general medical subjects. Each lecture was originally presented as a video teleconference. Some recent lectures are: Enhancing Surge Capacity and Preparedness Effort: Crisis Care Guidelines; Osteoporotic Spinal Compression Fractures; Overview of Adult Occupational Lead Poisoning in California; “When is Chemotherapy Enough”? Integrating Palliative Care Into Usual Oncology; Healthy Brain Aging; and Varicose Veins, The Orphan and The Clinician Radiologist. To receive CME credit, print and mail or fax the evaluation form. |
Yale
Online CME
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The bulk of the instruction is in Internal Medicine Grand Rounds (39). The second largest group is "Connecticut Mandated Courses" (11). Other lectures are in Cancer (4), Surgery (5), Pediatrics (5), OB/Gyn/Reproductive Sciences (4), Neuroscience (1), Diabetes (2) and Dermatology (1). |