Online
Continuing Medical
Education (CME)
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How to Find Online CME: Using this
list, you can find online CME web sites arranged by their:
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AAPM&R EMG Academe
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CME activities are presented in 4 formats. "Courses" combine audio, video, slides and interactive learning activities: Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound; (3.75 hours); and Chemodenervation in the Management of Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders (5 hours). There are 5 slide-audio lectures on various topics (1.5 hours). You will find 6 "cases": EMG, Musculoskeletal, Pain and Spinal Cord Injury. The new online journal, PM&R, currently has 6 articles each offering 1 hour of credit. Podcasts offer no credit. |
(The)
Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning (formerly called ACCESS)
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Reducing Residual Cardiovascular Risk in Patients With Atherogenic Dyslipidemia; The Use of Opioids in Pain Management; Therapeutic Strategies for Improving Atherogenic Lipid Abnormalities Beyond LDL-C in High-Risk Patient Populations; New Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Diabetic Ketoacidosis; Drug-Eluting Stents: How to Balance Benefits and Risks; Which Combination Therapies Can Be Employed to Improve Multiple Atherogenic Lipid Abnormalities and Reduce Residual CVD Risk? Comprehensive Management of Atherogenic Dyslipidemia in Patients at High Risk for Cardiovascular Disease ; Novel Approaches to Sedation in Acute Care Settings: 2 Modules; Does Raising HDL-C Reduce Residual Cardiovascular Risk?: Clinical Implications; Strategies to Reduce Microvascular and Macrovascular Disease in Patients With Diabetes; Can CVD Outcomes Be Improved With Combination Lipid-Lowering Therapies? ; Therapeutic Strategies for Simultaneously Improving Multiple Atherogenic Lipid Abnormalities; and Decision Making in Pediatric Anesthesia: Effects on Recovery. |
ACP
Medicine Online Version
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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: 11 major subspecialties of internal medicine; women's health; geriatrics; palliative medicine; psychology; dermatology; and neurology. |
ACS
Surgery Online Edition
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The Online Edition of ACS Surgery: Principles and Practice is the only American College of Surgeons-sponsored textbook on general surgery. ACS Surgery "gives you the information you need to help you perform core surgical procedures more efficiently and to provide current, cost-effective patient care." It covers resuscitation; common presenting problems; trauma and thermal injury; preoperative preparation; operative management; special perioperative problems; care in the ICU; and postoperative management. |
Acute
Myeloid Leukemia
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After viewing this activity, you should be able to
identify factors that may
complicate the treatment of AML in older patients; discuss the
molecular and
cytogenetic pathogenesis of AML in the context of newer therapies;
develop
treatment strategies for patients with relapsed or refractory AML or
for those
with multiple co-morbidities; and apply new information on targeted
therapies
and “best practices” into clinical practice.
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Acuity
Medical Education
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One program (Clinical and Legal Controversies in ROP Evaluation) is currently available for 1 credit (valid through 12/2009). 2 other programs are available for review, but not for CME credit. (NOTE: One additional program, Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance with New Fluoroquinolones, is actually a live event that will be available at a future conference for 1.5 CME credits.) |
Addiction
CME is a
group of sites concerned with education and treatment for alcohol
abuse,
narcotic drug abuse and tobacco cessation.
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Addiction CME consists of four closely related sections, described below. |
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"The Buprenorphine Training Program fulfills the physician-training requirements of the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA 2000). According to DATA 2000 requirements, physicians must complete 8 hours of education, such as this program provides, if they wish to become eligible to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid dependence. Upon the successful completion of the training, and once they have met other requirements, physicians can submit a “notification of intent” to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to become eligible to prescribe buprenorphine." |
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The courses are presented in these groups: Tobacco Cessation Core Curriculum, General Topics on Tobacco Cessation, Topics on Youth and Tobacco Control, and Topics on Women and Smoking Cessation. |
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Tobacco Free Patients is an online training program in how to provide clinical tobacco interventions, based on a National Cancer Institute educational program, Help Your Patients Be Tobacco Free (Mecklenburg, 1997). Courses were reviewed by tobacco experts and primary care physicians and feature evidence-based, clinically relevant information, key points, interactive questions, patient handouts, clinical forms, and helpful links. |
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To earn your full day Tobacco Treatment Training Program Certificate, complete all 6 mandatory courses: Overview of Tobacco Cessation, Pharmacotherapy of Tobacco Cessation, Five Cases: Basic Tobacco Cessation Interventions, Motivational Interviewing for Primary Care, Tobacco Dependence and Health Effects of Tobacco; and one of the 3 optional courses: Julie: Pregnancy and Smoking, Teens and Tobacco: A Case, and Children and Tobacco: Three Cases. For the half day Certificate, complete 3 mandatory courses and one optional. |
AMDA
cmedirect
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This site is aimed at physicians who are medical
directors in long-term care facilities.
Four webcast programs are:
Immunization in Long Term Care; Pain Management; Practical Guidelines
for Handling VRE and MRSA in Long Term Care; and
Urinary Incontinence in Long Term Care.
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American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) Online CME |
Navigation at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Online CME site is challenging. Some areas are restricted to members of the AAAAI. Here are the portions I was able to view: |
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Some recent articles and quizzes include: Therapeutic approaches to allergy and autoimmunity based on FoxP3+ regulatory T-cell activation and expansion; Mechanisms and treatment of allergic disease in the big picture of regulatory T cells; Occupational asthma: Current concepts in pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management; Mechanisms of occupational asthma; and Efficacy and mechanisms of action of traditional Chinese medicines for treating asthma and allergy. |
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The 2008 Mini-Primer on Allergic and Immunologic Diseases appears to be a subset of 10 of the articles from the February 2008 Supplement of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI) Online CME Program. Some representative titles are: Lymphocytes; Dendritic cells as regulators of immunity and tolerance; Adhesion molecules and receptors; Gastrointestinal mucosal immunity; Genetics of allergic disease; and Secondary immunodeficiencies, including HIV infection. |
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You will hear summaries and review questions on subjects of interest to allergists and immunologists. At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to identify, evaluate and manage the current problems and issues in allergy/immunology in preparation for the ABAI examination. |
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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. |
American
Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry eAACAP Online CME
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You will now find three activities: Early
Onset Bipolar Disorder, What Those in the Know, Know
(2 hours, free);
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American
Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
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American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has 10 sub-sites offering CME oriented to family physicians, Sites are listed in the same order as shown on the AAFP Online CME page. |
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This collection of practice questions is intended to help you prepare for the certification/recertification exam. The questions are organized into 10-question quizzes by topic, corresponding to the categories in the exam. There are also mixed reviews. The questions are multiple choice with one correct answer. Explanations and supporting references are provided for each question. Each 10-question quiz is eligible for 0.25 CME credits. To report your credit, simply click the "Submit your quiz results" button when you finish the quiz. |
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METRIC is an online practice improvement program that allows you to earn CME credit in your office. The program is designed to assist you in fulfilling the requirement for Part IV of Maintenance of Certification. You begin by filling out a short practice assessment questionnaire. Next, you pull 10 patient records for chart review. Once you’ve entered data for 10 charts, you will see how your data compares with other users’ data. Next, you build an action plan that’s based on your feedback report. The program provides descriptions of possible interventions and tools to help build a plan that’s right for your needs. Your action plan becomes a guide to making change in your practice systems over the three-month action period. You then complete a second practice questionnaire and review of a second set of 10 patient charts. |
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Each month's issue of this online journal contains a series of articles concerning clinical issues in primary care and a quiz with questions relating to those articles. Members of the AAFP may submit the answers to quizzes online, while nonmembers must complete and mail in the tear-out card found in the paper version of the journal. |
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Each month's issue of this online journal contains a series of articles concerning management issues in primary care and questions relating to those articles. Members of the AAFP may submit the answers to quizzes online, while nonmembers must complete and mail in the tear-out card found in the paper version of the journal. |
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A single monograph, Chronic Pain Patients on Opioid Therapy. |
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Some newer Bulletins are: Seasonal Influenza Prevention and Treatment; Assessment, Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity; Stroke-TIA; Use of Hormone Therapy for Menopausal Symptoms; and Caring for Patients Who Have Chronic Low Back Pain. |
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The first set of activities in the new AAFP Learning Link is the Pain Management Series, which consists of these 4 lectures: Assessment and Management of Chronic Pain; Managing the Chronic Pain Patient at Risk or with a History of Addiction; Challenging Issues in Chronic Pain Management; Disparities in Care: and Special Populations in Pain Management. |
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A single case study, Opioid Abuse in Chronic Pain: Identifying the Problem and Reducing the Risk. |
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A selection of webcasts: Osteoporosis: An Online Plenary Session from the 2008 Scientific Assembly )1.0 hour); Diabetes: Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes and the Role of Insulin (2.25 hours); and AIM to Change: Encouraging Fitness for All (1.0 hours). |
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A set of four activities helping you to develop new skills and practice strategies that will help you help your patients live tobacco-free lives. Each offers 2.0 credits: Conduct and Get Paid for Tobacco Cessation Group Visits; Beyond the Guidelines: Advances in Tobacco Cessation Treatment and Payment; Become a Tobacco Aware Practice: Using an Organizational and Team-based Approach ; and Treating Tobacco Dependence. |
American
Academy of Ophthalmology O.N.E. Network
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Content is available only to members of The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO). |
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Orthopedic Knowledge Online (OKO) |
I have classified the available CME into two sections: OKO and Self-Assessment. |
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The AAOS OKO section has a large selection of topics for orthopedists. Some subject areas are: Adult, Foot, Hand, Oncology, Pain, Peds, Practice, Shoulder, Spine, Sports and Trauma. |
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Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care, 3rd
Edition and Essentials of Musculoskeletal Imaging consists of
six modules:
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American Academy of Pediatrics PediaLink |
AAP PediaLink offers 3 kinds of instruction: |
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eQIPP is a quality improvement CME program that allows you to evaluate your practice online. Each module has 4 units: Assessing Your Practice; Treating Your Patients; Developing Your Action Plan; and Next Steps For Your Practice. The current offering is: Nutritional Assessment. |
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Each PREP Self-Assessment Exercise offers over 250 multiple choice questions including critiques; links to many of the references; and search capabilities. You can now purchase the PREP Self-Assessment Exercise for 2008, 2007 and 2006. |
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Some newer topics are: Childhood Tuberculosis; Issues in the Emergency Evaluation of Adolescents Following Suicidal Behavior; The Avulsed Tooth in Prepubertal Children; Pertussis Disease and Prevention; Family-Centered Communication in Challenging Pediatric Encounters; A Roadmap for Professional Development; and Public versus Private Cord Blood Banking: What’s the Difference? |
American
Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (ABQAURP)
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Some large comprehensive courses (3 to 13 credit hours) are: Medical Error Prevention and Patient Safety, Parts 1 and 2; A Review of the Core Body of Knowledge; Patient Safety Certificate Course; and Health Care Quality and Patient Safety. |
American
College of Allergy, Asthma
and Immunology (ACAAI)
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Some presentations from the ACAAI's 2008 Annual Meeting are available as Webcasts (2 hours): Update in Hereditary Angioedema; Sublingual Immunotherapy (SLIT) for Allergic Rhinitis; and Advances in Hereditary Angioedema Treatment. Other presentations from the 2008 ACAAI Annual Meeting are available as podcasts or "vodcasts" (0.5 hour). Most of these lectures concern SLIT (sublingual immunotherapy). |
American
College of
Cardiology
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CME content is interspersed through the Cardiosource
site, and will be marked with the
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icon.
Use the link in the upper right corner of the site to claim your
credits (members or subscribers only), and Cardiosource will keep track
of your credits and mail you your certificate.
CME can be found on the following sections of the site:
American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) |
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This online journal is intended for the pulmonary and critical care specialist. Each month provides two lessons on pulmonary and critical care topics. Some recent topics are: Measuring Quality of Life in Lung Disease; Asbestos-Related Lung Disease; Phosphodiesterase-4 Inhibitors for Asthma and COPD; and Management of Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. |
Find sites by medical specialty
or topic:
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American
College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
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Activities include: Selected
Presentations from Scientific Assembly 2005, 29 Web-streaming
audiovisual lectures from the 2005 ACEP emergency medicine education
conference.
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American
Diabetes Association - Diabetes Pro
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The ADA web site has been redesigned. You will have to register separately for each of the activities described below. |
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This webcast focuses on key presentations made June 6 -10, 2008 at the 68th Scientific Sessions in San Francisco. Topical segments include: cardiovascular disease and glycemia, obesity, behavioral medicine, diabetic complications and therapeutic agents. A group of expert panelists from the Scientific Sessions Meeting Planning Committee comments after each of the segments. |
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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. |
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From this page, you may:
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Insulin and Oral Hypoglycemic Agents:
Determining the Proper Combination;
and
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American
Headache
Society (AHS)
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Two courses are now available:
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American
Heart Association Professional Education Center
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The American Heart Association Professional Education Center offers live and televised sessions as well as distance learning through print and CD. To find the online and podcast material, choose Course Catalog, then Delivery Method, then either Online Courses, Webinars and Webcasts or Podcasts/Audiocasts. All activities are concerned with the prevention and treatment of heart disease, stroke and peripheral arterial disease. |
American Medical Association Online Continuing Medical Education. Seven groups of courses are offered. Courses are described in the order presented on the AMA CME main page. A ninth activity, AMA Therapeutic Insights, is described at the end of this section. |
CME through JAMA & Archives is described separately. |
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Current subjects include depression (7 hours), Parkinson's disease (6 hours) and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (5 hours). |
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After completing this activity, you should be better
able to: determine
whether you should accept subsidized electronic health record and/or
electronic prescribing technology; comply with regulations governing
subsidized (donated) health information technology; recognize regular
components of donation agreements and general information technology
contracts; and prepare more effectively for any HIT implementation.
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This monograph provides information for physicians to
heighten
awareness of the role of medication reconciliation in the safe use of
medications. The monograph provides a framework for physicians to
understand their roles and responsibilities in this
process. The monograph offers general concepts and strategies,
implementation steps, and case-based learning. The program includes a
guide to completing an AMA My Medications© patient medication card.
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This section has three 90-minute webcasts. Topics
include: Transitioning to an Improved Hospital
Discharge; Keys to the Successful Implementation of the revised Joint
Commission Medical Staff Bylaws Standard
MS.1.20; and Creating a New Future for a New Day
with a Revamped Organized Medical Staff
Structure.
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Twelve modules on the assessment and management of pain
in a variety of areas:
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Use Internet Explorer to take this course. This activity is an introduction to pharmacogenomics and the influence of a patient's genetic background on drug response. The course was developed by the AMA and the Food and Drug Administration, and is designed for physicians who have had little exposure to the topic in clinical practice or who want to better understand the current levels of pharmacogenomic information in prescription drug labeling. |
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This program addresses strategies to improve communication with Hispanic or Latino patients. This program covers the skills needed to effectively communicate with a low-literate, Spanish-speaking population. These skills focus on clarity, cultural humility, and message confirmation, all of which are important to patient care. |
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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 current newsletters are: Recognizing and Managing Overactive Bladder; Medical Treatment of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Secondary to BPH; Gaining Control of Asthma in Children; and Management of Osteoporosis in Primary Care. |
American
Psychiatric Association
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The newest courses are: BEST of the 2008 Annual Meeting (60+ hours; the link mistakenly says "2007"); Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Principles of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Online video course; and ASD and PTSD; Schizophrenia and Suicidal Behavior; and Substance Use Disorders. Other courses include: Buprenorphine for Office Based Treatment of Opiate Dependent Patients; Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment, A refresher course; Molecular Biology of Memory: A Dialogue Between Genes and Synapses; Alzheimer's Disease: and Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders; Bipolar Disorder; Borderline Personality Disorder; HIV/AIDS; Delirium; Major Depressive Disorder, and Panic Disorder. |
American
Society for Clinical Pathology - eLearning
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The American Society for Clinical Pathology offers online instruction in 5 formats: |
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Some current courses include:
A How-Should-I Guide to Laboratory Quality Control; An Overview of
Chemical Terrorism Agents; A Practical Approach to Dermatopathology of
Inflammatory Skin Disease: Inflammatory Diseases of the Dermis and
Subcutis; A Practical Approach to Dermatopathology of Inflammatory Skin
Disease: Inflammatory Diseases with Prominent Epidermal Change;
Confessions of a Laboratory Safety Officer; and
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Each month several AJCP articles are offered to readers to earn CME/SAM credit (one credit per article). Some recent articles include: Laboratory Medicine Quality Indicators: A Review of the Literature; Combined Small Cell Lung Carcinomas: Genotypic and Immunophenotypic Analysis of the Separate Morphologic Components; Challenges and Pitfalls of Morphologic Identification of Fungal Infections in Histologic and Cytologic Specimens: A Ten-Year Retrospective Review at a Single Institution; Factitious Biochemical Measurements Resulting From Hematologic Conditions; and Direct Measurement of Free Copper in Serum or Plasma Ultrafiltrate. |
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Some current topics include: The Medicolegal Investigation of Recreational Diving Deaths; Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: Diagnosis, Pathogenesis, and Treatment; Crescentic Glomerulonephritis, Differential Diagnosis; Malaria Diagnosis: Microscope to Molecular; Plasma Cell Myeloma (Multiple Myeloma); and Evaluating Errors in Cytologic-Histologic Correlation: A Practical Application of Root-Cause Analysis. |
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Choose from eLearning Modules in five content areas: GYN, Non-GYN, FNA, Technical/Ancillary Studies, and Laboratory Management & Administration |
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Choose one or several of these topics: Clinical Chemistry, Cytopathology, Forensic Pathology, Hematology, Microbiology, Surgical Pathology I (with glass slides), Surgical Pathology II or Transfusion Medicine; or choose the 8-Series Complete Package. |
American
Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR)
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Some newer titles are: Diagnostic Imaging of the Spine: Spinal Vascular Disease: Alzheimer's Disease: Sinonasal Cavity: New Imaging Modalities: and Biological Treatment with Gene Therapy and Stem Cells. |
Find sites by medical specialty
or topic:
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Anesthesiology
Online
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Anesthesiology Online is an online informational and educational resource for anesthesia professionals. You will not be able to view any content until you have registered and paid your fee. |
ArcMesa
Educators
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This site has shrunken considerably since my last visit. There are now only ten courses. Some titles are: Managing the Consequences of Multiple Sclerosis: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Improving the Quality of Life; HIV Patients and Weight Loss: Optimizing Care to Improve Outcomes; Osteoporosis: Opportunity for Better Outcomes; and Congestion in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: A Case Based Discussion. |
Area
Health Education Center (AHEC) of Southern Nevada
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Current course offerings include:
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ARHP
(Association of Reproductive Health Professionals)
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Click on "Archived
Webinars" to find 19 slide-audio lectures (webinars)
immediately
available on a variety of reproductive health topics, including IUC,
HPV,
contraceptive risk, emergency contraception, early pregnancy loss, and
IC/PBS.
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(AskAFIP)
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Legal Medicine
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The link shown is to the 2008 issue. From the main page, you can find links to every yearly issue back to 1999. This site contains articles concerning legal aspects of medical practice with special emphasis on the concerns of military and federal health care providers. I suggest you print and read the pdf files offline. The objectives of the current issue are: "To review recent court decisions affecting health care practitioners in diverse settings. To detail common critical care scenarios which often lead to malpractice claims. To review diagnostic strategies which can reduce delays in the diagnosis of breast cancer. To explore the legal ramification of prescribing “off label” drugs. To review issues of risk, trust, and informed consent in health care decision making." |
(AskAFIP)
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Online Urologic Pathology
(middle of page)
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These are the first two sections, Bladder Pathology and Lesions of the Penis and Urethra of a course primarily for urologists preparing for board examinations and for practicing urologists and pathologists. "On each content page, the participant sees a text description of the light microscopic recognition of specific disease processes, and where appropriate, additional comments about necessary special stains and immunohistochemistry. Following the text, the participant sees several images with captions that illustrate the important features discussed. With a single click on an image, the participant can see a full-size version of an image with its caption." |
(AskAFIP)
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology -- Pathology of Antiretroviral
Therapy
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The objectives of the course are: to review classes of antiretroviral drugs and gain knowledge of the types of adverse drug reactions associated with their use; and be able to recognize possible cases of the immune restoration inflammatory syndrome. This course includes four case examples that illustrate antiretroviral lesions, brief summary text of antiretroviral topics, a PowerPoint presentation on "AIDS in the Time of Antiretroviral Therapy", and a final exam. |
(AskAFIP)
Armed Forces Virtual Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Biopsy Course
(bottom of page)
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This course is presented by the Division of Gastrointestinal Pathology, AFIP. The course has 5 modules; each module consists of eight cases with a brief case history and a set of microscopic slides of an endoscopic biopsy. |
(AskAFIP)
Armed Forces Virtual Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Biopsy Course
(bottom of page)
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This course is presented by the Division of Gastrointestinal Pathology, AFIP. The course has 5 modules; each module consists of eight cases with a brief case history and a set of microscopic slides of an endoscopic biopsy. |
(AskAFIP)
Armed Forces Virtual Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Biopsy Course
(bottom of page)
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This course is presented by the Division of Gastrointestinal Pathology, AFIP. The course has 5 modules; each module consists of eight cases with a brief case history and a set of microscopic slides of an endoscopic biopsy. |
Assessment
and
Management of Overweight and Obese Adult Patients
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This course intends to help you to understand the importance of weight management, recognize the health risks associated with overweight and obesity in adults, recognize the motivations as well as the barriers to successful weight loss and use the treatment algorithm to determine who to treat, when to treat and how to treat overweight and obese patients. |
Audio-Digest
Online CME
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This site presents the familiar Audio-Digest format: Objectives, Pre-Test, Written Summary (not a complete transcript) and the Audio Presentation. Each month, two new courses are posted. There are presently courses in 13 specialties: Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Urology. There is also a category of podcasts called "Journal Watch Audio (General Medicine)." Audio-Digest also offers free download of selected audio files to your computer or MP3 player (podcasts). |
Aunt
Minnie Online CME
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About 200 cases using various radiologic modalities (CT, PET, MR, Isotopes) to diagnose patients. Courses are organized into ten organ systems. Each course "integrates knowledge, imagery, and dynamic interaction to enhance learning..." Each course delivers "choreographed, interactive knowledge to simulate real-time interaction with a radiologic expert. There are built-in mechanisms for assessment, certification, and credentialing..." |
Find sites by medical specialty
or topic:
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Baylor
College of Medicine's Online CME Courses
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Baylor College of Medicine's Online CME Courses consists of 80 activities in eight subject areas offering about 80 hours of credit. Many courses consist of multiple lectures. There is some overlap of courses between subject areas. |
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A variety of courses on many aspects of cardiovascular disease with a special emphasis on lipid abnormalities and diabetes in heart disease. There is considerable overlap between these courses and those in the diabetes section. |
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The diabetes section is heavily weighted towards management of lipid abnormalities and the effects of diabetes in heart disease. There are seventeen courses. |
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Three courses on various aspects of hypertension. |
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Three presentations, illustrating various aspects of medical ethics, drawn from the other sections of this site (pediatrics and women's health). |
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Barriers to Sexual Health after Gynecologic Cancers: What Should be Done?; and Gynecologic and Colorectal Cancer: Risks and Benefits of Contraceptive Methods. |
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This section has 12 pediatric topics: Some topics have multiple sections, and you must complete all sections to earn credit. Some newer topics include: Counseling Adolescents About Sexual Health; Evaluation of the Child with the First Seizure; and The Sexually Active Adolescent Who Is Uncertain About Using Contraception. |
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Two courses are: A Case of Adolescent Obesity: The Role of Bariatric Surgery; and Sterilization Methods for Women. |
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41 sets of lectures or pdfs on contraception, hormone replacement, menopause and many other aspects of women's health. |
BCN-NY
(Comprehensive biological, chemical and nuclear training for physicians)
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This course offers physicians bio-terrorism
preparedness training. Modules describe 11 biological agents, 4
chemical agents including a chemical overview and nuclear radiological
emergencies. Also 4 mental health modules and one on SARS.
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BioCritique
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BioCritique helps you keep up with advances in biomedical research. Scientists and clinicians in major therapeutic areas select and review recent important articles. Each paper is linked to a collection of related resources including PowerPoint presentations, interactive assessments, clinical trials and related research literature, as well as drug and patent information. Almost half the content (87 activities) is in cardiovascular medicine.
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BioDiscussion
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BioDiscussion brings together experts and authors to discuss topics and papers of current interest. Each discussion explores a topic, allowing experts the opportunity to express their opinions and share their knowledge with listeners. Downloadable PowerPoint¨ slides, transcript, and links to other topic resources allow for an in-depth learning experience. |
Boston
University School of Medicine Internet-Based CME Click
on Internet
Based CME to access the courses.
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Present courses (credit hours): What You Should Know About Gifts to Physicians From Industry Self-Study Course from the AMA (4); Cutaneous Laser (2.75); Reach Out and Read (1); Alcohol, Other Drugs and Health: Current Evidence (1.5 credits per issue); STD Clinical Intensive Continuing Medical Education Module (1 - 2.5 credits per section - 8 sections total). You may submit your test answers and evaluation online or by email or fax. |
Find sites by medical specialty
or topic:
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CA - A Cancer Journal for
Clinicians
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Some recent articles (2009) are: Cancer Screening in the United States, 2009: A Review of Current American Cancer Society Guidelines and Issues in Cancer Screening; Patient Adherence and Persistence with Oral Anticancer Treatment; Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics of Anticancer Agents; and Lymphedema: A Primer on the Identification and Management of a Chronic Condition in Oncologic Treatment. In order to take the quizzes, you must first obtain a username, password and customer number and then register with your personal information. |
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. |
California
Society of Anesthesiologists Online CME Programs
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These articles were created to meet the licensure requirement of the California Medical Board for 12 hours CME in pain and end-of-life studies. The twelve articles are: Summary of Pain Management and End-Of-Life Care Series, and Neuromodulation; Neurosurgical Options for Refractory Pain Management; Improving Patient Safety for Pain Blocks: Lessons Learned from Medical Malpractice Claims Review; Pain and the Brain: What We Have Learned from Functional Neuroimaging; Rehabilitation in Pain Management; Palliative and End-of-Life Care; Opioids for Pain: Risk Management; Complex Regional Pain Syndromes; Pain Physiology; Concepts in Opioid Tolerance; Is Untreated Pain a Disease? and Repeal of Triplicate Prescribing. You will also find the Obstetric Anesthesia program containing 4 modules (4 credits) and the Critical Care program offering 5 modules (5 credits). |
California
STD/HIV Prevention Training Center
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The Chlamydia
Course for California Providers is for clinicians who care
for women of reproductive age.
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Cancer
Control: Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
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This site contains full-text online versions of articles from a peer-reviewed cancer journal. Each issue focuses on one type of cancer and contains four or more major articles. A new issue comes out every two months. Currently, only one of these issues offers 2 credits of CME: Myelodysplastic Syndromes: Present Status and New Avenues to Optimize Clinical Outcomes. Each module contains a set of 20 post-test questions; you need to score at least 75% to earn credit. |
CancerNetwork.com
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Click on CME Courses/Meetings, and
register or log on to access the instruction. There appear to be 5
kinds of activities:
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CardioCareLive
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This meeting was presented online live on March 3 and 4, 2009, and is now available online for on-demand viewing and CME credit. CardioCareLive brings "the benefits of a physical medical conference, with live keynote presentations, lectures, peer networking and an exhibit floor, to the convenience of your computer." |
Cardiometabolic Health Congress (2008)
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A set of dinner meetings dealing with various issues related to diabetes, heart disease and the metabolic syndrome. Each section has 3 separate but related talks. To receive credit for a section, view the lectures, complete the post-test and evaluation and submit. Your certificate will be sent by mail in 4-6 weeks. |
CardioVillage
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At present, there are four primary learning topics: coronary artery disease, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and preventive cardiology. Each learning topic includes tutorials, cases, and self-assessment exercises. In addition, some content is presented in a “course” format which is a grouping of topics intended for a particular target audience; there are special courses for 2nd, 3rd, 4th year Medical Students and Cardiology Fellows. You may earn CME credit for reviewing a case, tutorial, or taking a posttest. |
CCHIV
(Changing Concepts in HIV Disease)
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This site offers current information on various aspects of HIV/AIDS diagnosis and management, gleaned from conferences held around the world. Activities are in the form of newsletters, slide kits, "Talking Slide Kits," and mp3 audio files. |
CCMDweb.org
(formerly lipidhealth.org)
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This site offers 3 ways to earn CME credits. There are 4 Interactive Case Studies available, each offering 0.75 to 1.0 credits. There is 1 newsletter available, offering 1-1.5 credit each, after you answer a set of questions. |
CDC
Self-Study
STD Modules for Clinicians
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Seven disease-based interactive modules: Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV), Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), Pelvic inflammatory Disease (PID), Syphilis and Vaginitis. |
CDC
Training and Continuing Education OnLine
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After login, Choose "Search and Register." You may then search for courses by date, keyword, or display all. I recommend keyword "Web on Demand". This will bring you to a list of online courses on public health and preventive medicine topics with an emphasis on vaccination. |
CECentral
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About 50 activities in 28 different specialties. Most instruction is via slide-audio lectures, some by downloadable pdf files and other are audio-only. Some courses are intended for pharmacists, not physicians, so be sure to choose a "CME" (not "CPE") course. |
CEMedicus
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CEMedicus offers access to about 3000 online CME courses offered by different providers. The site allows you to search by medical topic, disease, instruction type or content host. Searching is not easy; it will take you some time to learn the system. |
Cerebrio
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Two activities: Comprehensive Management of Patients With Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections (1.5 hours); and Current Challenges in the Treatment of Patients Hospitalized for Community-Acquired Infections (2.0 hours). |
CE-University.org
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Subject areas include: Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, Diabetes, Immunology, Emergency Medicine, Psychiatric Disorders, Healthcare Policy/Systems, Biologics and Ophthalmology. |
Challenger
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When you buy a Challenger product, you receive a CD/DVD and online access to the course. You will find six major specialty review courses: Family Medicine, 300 credits; Emergency Medicine, 415 credits; Internal Medicine, 290 credits; OB-GYN, 200 credits; Pathology (Damjanov/Linder), 200 credits; and Pediatrics, 170 credits. All review courses are backed by a Boards Pass Guarantee. You will also find several major textbooks that have been integrated into the Challenger review courses, such as Challenger/Rosens Career for EM; Challenger/Rakel Career for FM; and Challenger/Creasy Resnik for OBGYN/MFM. Challenger also offers a selection of cross-specialty review courses directed at primary and emergency care physicians including: ECG: Case Studies, Quiz & Atlas, 35 credits; ECG: Principles of Electrocardiography Series, 94.5 credits; Dermatology, 57.5 credits; Acute Care Radiology Series, 38.5 credits; Pediatric Radiology Series, 34.5 credits; High Risk Medicine Series, 14 credits; and others. `` |
Children's
Healthcare of Atlanta CME Online
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This site is best visited with Internet Explorer. Grand Rounds Online offers 17 slide-audio lectures on various pediatric topics, each worth 1.0 credit-hours. Some recent topics are: Periodic Fever Syndrome; Living Beyond Childhood Cancer: Survivor Healthcare; Children with Electrolyte Disorders; Diagnostic Techniques for Identifying an Infection; and Micronutrients in Preschool Children. The Pediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) module offers 0.5 credits. You can earn CME credit for answering questions based on the articles in Neuro Update (2 hours) or Cardio Update (3 hours). |
Children's
Hospital of Pittsburgh - Webcasts
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Six slide-video lectures offered currently: Curing Epilepsy: Improved Procedures, Improved Outcomes; The Fifth International Pediatric Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation Symposium; ADHD: Managing the Social, Medical and Emotional Impact; 2008 Physician Alumni Day Presentations; Pediatric Trauma: Evaluation, Treatment and Prevention; and Mechanical Support for a Child's Failing Heart: Past, Present and Future. |
Children's
Memorial Hospital - Northwestern University's Feinberg School of
Medicine
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Text or text-and-graphics articles from The Child's Doctor, November 2007 and May 2008 (each issue offers 2.0 credit-hours) and six slide-audio lectures offering 0.5 or 0.75 hours each: Brain Cooling for the Treatment of Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy; Cleft Lip and Palate; Diagnosis of Cystic Fibrosis; Gastroesophageal Reflux In Infants: More than Just Spitting Up?; Approach to the Bleeding Child in the Pediatrician's Office; and Strabismus. |
Children's
of Minnesota Grand Rounds Online
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Each week, a live lecture is presented and archived on the web shortly thereafter. Some recent lectures are: Case Presentation: 9-Year-Old with Possible Seizure; Top Articles in Endocrinology; A Case from Cambodia; and The Adolescent Female Athlete. There is no post-lecture exam; just fill out the evaluation to earn your credit. |
Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education Online CME |
The Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education has grown to include 28 separate CME sections. This makes for a very long entry, but if you are not interested, you can skip it by using your mouse wheel or go on to the letter "D". Activities are described here in the order shown on the Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education main page. The Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine is described at the bottom of this section. |
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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. |
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This series was recorded during a live satellite symposium at the ASH Annual Meeting in December 2008. The goal of this series is to review the pathobiology of bone marrow disorders, describe the variations in disease patterns across global regions, and evaluate the rationale for therapies and their evidence based, clinically relevant application. |
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This program intends to strengthen the ability of rheumatologists to manage the challenge of balancing therapeutic immune suppression and the risk of infectious complications. Lecture titles are: Importance of Assessing Immunocompetence in Biologic Drug Development; Relative Risks of Serious Bacterial and Opportunistic Infections Among Biologics: Results of Randomized Trials and Observational Studies; The Effect of Biologic Agents on Humoral Immunity: Significance of Immunoglobulins and Response to Vaccines; Infectious Complications of Biologic Therapies: Preventive and Therapeutic Strategies; and Immunocompetence and Biologic Therapies: Assessing Risks and Preventing Complications from Infections - Panel Discussion. |
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Lecture titles: Prevalence and Natural History of Hepatitis B in the 21st Century; Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Hepatitis B and Prevention through Treatment; Understanding Cultural Barriers; Hepatitis B Treatment: Current Best Practices How to Avoid Resistance; Debate: Monotherapy vs. Multiple Drug Therapy as the Wave of the Future for HBV infection; HBV in Pregnancy; and HBV-HIV Co-infection. |
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Lecture titles: Current Role of Cytoreductive Nephrectomy; Initial Systemic Therapy Options; Management of Small Renal Masses: The Role of Percutaneous Biopsy; and Management of Small Renal Masses: What is the Best Management Option in this Case? |
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This series presents an overview of new and up-to-date research on management of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). You have your choice of Slide-Video Lecture or podcast. Titles are: The Importance of Platelets and Platelet Response in Acute Coronary Syndromes; The Current State of Antiplatelet Therapy in ACS: The Data and "Real Life"; Novel Antiplatelet Therapies in ACS; and Panel Discussion. |
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This series
applies practice guidelines to clinical practice. Each case includes
didactic information as well as interactive
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A single lecture describes the technology, appropriate indications, efficacy, and side effects of MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound Therapy, which has the potential to improve the clinical care of a specific patient population of women with uterine fibroids. |
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These activities concern new therapies in the treatment of autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs). After completing this course, you should be able to: cite the key clinical features of recent advances in B-cell biology as they relate to autoimmune rheumatic diseases; review advances in molecular biology that contribute to the understanding of the pathogenesis of autoimmune rheumatic diseases; discuss recently published clinical data relating to the usage of B-cell–directed therapies for rheumatoid arthritis; and examine current approaches to the usage of B-cell–directed therapeutics in rheumatoid arthritis. |
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This series contains bimonthly discussions on the management of complicated RA patient cases that encompass diverse treatment challenges. Current lectures include: Prevention of Infection in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Receiving Biologic Agents; Rheumatoid Arthritis and Imaging; Treating a Patient with RA and Hepatitis B or C; Therapeutic Issues in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Pregnancy; Rheumatoid Arthritis and Heart Failure; Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients with an Inadequate Response to TNF Inhibitors; Rheumatoid Arthritis and Malignancy: Associations, Effects of Treatment, and Discussion of Options for Patients with Prior Cancer; and The Management of Difficult Rheumatoid Arthritis. |
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Transvenous lead extraction is the core technique central to the treatment of cardiovascular implantable electronic device complications. Much of the major long-term morbidity associated with these devices is related to the leads, including infectious and vascular complications. These lectures will improve the knowledge of those clinicians who care for patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators and other devices. Lectures include: Definitions and Indications: Procedures, Successes, Complications, Indications & Training and Facilities; Devices and Techniques & Outcomes and Quality Measures; Coding and Reimbursement & Perspectives on Device and Lead Safety Alerts; and Lead Extraction 2008 Panel Discussion. |
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This eJournal club will engage RA clinicians in an examination, discussion and assessment of the most recent peer-reviewed, RA literature. Areas of focus will include emerging approaches to improve patient function and quality of life, and to reduce mortality. This new series has only one activity at present: Certolizumab Pegol Plus Methotrexate Is Significantly More Effective Than Placebo Plus Methotrexate in Active Rheumatoid Arthritis: Findings of a Fifty-Two–Week, Phase III, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled, Parallel-Group Study. Keystone E, et al. Arthritis Rheum. 2008;58:3319-3329 |
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A set of lectures recorded at the 10th Annual Pain Management Symposium in February 2008. Topics include: Cancer Pain; Evidence-Based Pain Management; My Technique Symposium: Presentation by the Experts Parts 1 & 2; and Emerging Therapies. |
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This monograph examines how to tailor the management of menopause-related health issues to the individual woman, based on her most bothersome symptoms and personal priorities regarding risks, benefits, and quality of life. The articles give special emphasis to the cardiovascular effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy in younger, recently menopausal women as opposed to older, late-postmenopausal women. |
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A single monograph, Hepatic Effects of Biologic Agents: Current and Future Issues in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis. The monograph is a report of a discussion between a rheumatologist and a hepatologist of the hepatic effects of biologic agents in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and their potential for the treatment of viral hepatitis. |
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The goal of this activity is to enable clinicians who are engaged in perioperative medical care to incorporate the latest findings from clinical research into their office and hospital practice so that they can provide quality and safe medical care. Two brief interactive cases: Perioperative Management Strategies for the Patient Requiring Warfarin; and Challenging Perioperative Cases. |
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This webcast explores the rationale for opioid rotation and alternatives. After completing this activity, you will be able to: explore the pros and cons of opioid rotation; discuss the physiologic and clinical rationale for opioid rotation; and review specific conversion protocols for alternate opioid therapies. |
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After completing this activity, you should be able to: describe the indications for IV methadone use; explain the side effect profile of IV vs. oral methadone; review the current guidelines for monitoring patients on IV methadone; and elucidate how to safely utilize IV methadone in appropriate circumstances. |
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This activity focuses on clinical practices for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in the medical, cancer and orthopedic patient. For each type of patient you will find a didactic presentation, a case presentation and a panel discussion. |
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The first section of a 3-part series on cardiac disease is Atrial Fibrillation: Choice of Therapy, which consists of Ablation vs. Anti-Arrythmic Agents: What is the best therapy? and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: When is it the Answer? |
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This site is based on a meeting that took place in August 2007. After studying the content, you should be able to: review and describe immunoregulatory pathways including the roles of T-cell and B-cell activation and effector function, cytokine biology, and immunologic central mechanisms in the pathogenesis of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases; differentiate the mechanisms of action, efficacy, and toxicity of varying classes of biologic therapeutics (TNF, T-cell, B-cell, and directed agents); apply state-of-the-art management strategies to patients with varied autoimmune and inflammatory diseases; recognize and diagnose refractory states of autoimmunity and inflammation including rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis, psoriasis, and inflammatory bowel disease states; and evaluate the risks and benefits of using biologic therapies as options in patients with refractory autoimmune and/or inflammatory diseases. |
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After completing this course, you should be able to: classify neuropsychiatric complications of SLE and describe the sequence, order, and interpretation of neurodiagnostic testing needed to accurately diagnose these complications; differentiate the common clinical subsets of CNS vasculitis from their important mimics and describe the interpretation and limitations of common neurodiagnostic testing used for its evaluation; identify the common clinical and electrodiagnostic features of vasculitis neuropathy and associate and correlate such findings to neurovascular pathologic findings; and define the role of immunosuppressive and biologic therapies in the pathogenesis of opportunistic CNS infections. |
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These lectures come from the 11th Annual Diastology and New Echo Technologies Summit, recorded February 9, 2008. Titles include: Contrast Basics, Physics and Imaging Modalities; Left Ventricular Opacification: Rest and Stress Echo; LV Perfusion: Rest and Stress Echo; and Myocardial Perfusion, 3-D Echo and New Research Developments/ |
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After completing this series, you should be able to: review the effects of regional and general anesthesia on thermoregulatory control; discuss heat balance and how surgical patients become hypothermic; review the consequences of hypothermia and how to maintain normothermia; and identify methods of reducing the risk of surgical infection. Lectures are titled: Non-Pharmacologic Prevention of Surgical Wound Infection; Perioperative Shivering: Physiology and Pharmacology; Prevention and Treatment of Perioperative Hypothermia; and Temperature Monitoring and Perioperative Thermoregulation. |
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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. |
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Two case-based lessons: Fred is Stuck (what to do about accidental needle sticks); and Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C and No Health Insurance Coverage. |
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Two activities: Post-Herpetic Neuralgia and Spinal Cord Stimulation and Occlusive Peripheral Vascular Disease. |
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Seven activities: Anesthetic Management for
Morbid Obesity During Craniotomy; Perioperative Management of Patients
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Cleveland Clinic
Journal of Medicine
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You will find the full text and the CME questions from the last 6 months of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. You will need to flip back and forth from the articles to the CME questions. |