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Addiction CME is a group of sites concerned with education and treatment for alcohol abuse, narcotic drug abuse and tobacco cessation.

Addiction CME consists of four closely related sections, described below.

• BuprenorphineCME.com
  Last visited...3/2009.
  Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
  Credit hours....A single course offering 8 hours and DATA 2000 certification.
  Awarded by....Clinical Tools, Inc.
  Cost...........$175.
  Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
  Target Audiences...General Interest, PSYCH.
  Educational material last updated....4/08.
  Financial support...National Institute on Drug Abuse.

"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."

• TobaccoCME.com
  Last visited...3/2009.
  Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
  Credit hours....Courses offer 0.5 to 1.5 hours each (11 courses offering a total of 10.75 hours)
  Awarded by....Clinical Tools, Inc.
  Cost...........$15,
  Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
  Target Audiences...General Interest, PSYCH.
  Educational material last updated....2009.
  Financial support...National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

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.

• TobaccoFreePatients.com
  Last visited...3/2009.
  Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
  Credit hours....Courses offer 0.5 to 1.5 hours each (13 courses offering a total of 11.75 hours)
  Awarded by....Clinical Tools, Inc.
  Cost...........$15.
  Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
  Target Audiences...General Interest, PSYCH.
  Educational material last updated....2009.
  Financial support...National cancer Institute.

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.

• TobaccoTreatmentTraining.com
  Last visited...3/2009.
  Credit hours....9.5.
  Awarded by....American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).
  Cost...........You can choose either the full-day program (7 courses, $150) or the half-day program  (4 courses, $80).
  Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
  Target Audiences...General Interest, PSYCH.
  Educational material last updated....6/08.
  Financial support...National cancer Institute and national heart Lung and Blood Institute.

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.

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry eAACAP Online CME
Last visited...12/2008.
Credit hours....3 courses offering total of 21 hours. See ===>
Awarded by....AACAP
Cost for Credit...See ===>
Instruction Type...Slide-Audio Lectures.
Target Audiences...PSYCH, PED
Educational material last updated....2008.
Financial Support...Lilly, Shire, Bristol-Myers Squibb.
CME Credit Expires...2009.

You will now find three activities: Early Onset Bipolar Disorder, What Those in the Know, Know (2 hours, free); 
Alcohol and Other Substance Use Disorders Curriculum for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Practitioners, Residents, and Other Health Professionals (5.5 hours, free); and 
2008 Psychopharmacology Update - Online CME Program: Successful Transition from Acute to Maintenance Psychopharmacological Treatment in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (13.5 hours, fee-based; fee not stated; you need to register in order to see prices).

American Psychiatric Association
Last visited....12/2008.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours....1.0 to 8.0 per course (about 69 activities offering about 105 total hours).
Awarded by.....American Psychiatric Association.
Cost............About $20 per credit for non-members; free to members of APA (except for Buprenorphine courses and access to BEST of the 2008 Annual Meeting).
Instruction Type....Text-Only (Guidelines, Monographs and HIV) or Slide-Audio Lecture.
Target Audience....PSYCH.
Educational material last updated....2007.
Financial support...Many Pharmaceutical Companies. 

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. 

Changing Lanes (Cyberounds-MAO Inhibitors)
Last visited...3/2009.
Credit hours...Three activities, each offering 2 hours.
Awarded by...Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Cost for Credit...Free.
Instruction Type....Interactive game ("bowling").
Target Audiences....PSYCH.
Educational material last updated...2006.
Financial Support...Bristol Myers Squibb.

Changing Lanes is an "interactive program on new strategies for MAOIs in the management of depression. Like a bowling tournament, there are three games -- each one focusing on a different topic -- interactions (drug-drug and drug-food), clinical issues and basic neuroscience." Go to the Cyberounds Psychiatry Neuroscience page and click on Free CME at our Changing Lanes to enter the program.

(The) CME Institute (Formerly Journal of Clinical Psychiatry Online CME)
Last visited...3/2008. 
Credit hours...Too numerous to count.
Awarded by....CME Institute of Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc.
Cost...........Most are free; some require "platinum membership" ($66 per year).
Instruction Type...Slide-Audio Lectures; Text-Only; Case-based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....PSYCH
Educational material last updated....3/08.
Financial Support...Multiple pharmaceutical companies.

This re-designed and re-named site will take some practice to navigate. There is a huge quantity of material in varying formats. This  includes:
Classes (Interactive presentations that allow you to learn at your own pace); 
Lectures (with slide presentations).
CME From The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (each activity includes multiple articles).
CME From The Primary Care Companion (each activity from includes a PDF of one or more articles).
Supplements to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (most offer CME credit).
Supplements to The Primary Care Companion (offer CME credit, and the full text is available free online).
Library (other CME activities in text format).
Medfair, the 3-D multimedia section of CME Institute, is not working well enough to recommend (6/19/06)

CME LLC Online Symposia
Last visited...5/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...14 courses, each offering a total of about 19.5 credit-hours.
Awarded by....CME Inc.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Slide-Audio Lectures.
Target Audiences....PSYCH.
Educational material last updated....2008.
Financial Support...Multiple pharmaceutical companies.

Most courses are in psychiatry; topics include: Fibromyalgia; Treatment of Insomnia; Adult ADHD; Major Depressive Disorder; Bipolar Disorder; Augmentation in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder; and The Role and Tolerability of Atypical Antipsychotics. Other topics include Acute Coronary Syndrome and Colorectal Cancer.

DDHealthInfo.org (Developmental Disabilities) 
Last visited...2/2009.
Reviewed by Clara Auty, MD
Credit hours...About 50 activities, each offering 0.5 credit-hours (total of about 25 hours).
Awarded by....University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.
Cost for Credit.....Free. 
Instruction Type....Text-Only.
Target Audiences....FP, PEDS, PSYCH.
Educational material last updated...2008.
Financial Support...California Department of Developmental Services.
CME Credit Expires...June 30, 2010.

This website is designed to assist physicians in caring for persons with developmental disabilities. Topics include: Autistic Spectrum Disorders; Cerebral Palsy; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Down Syndrome; Spina Bifida; and 
more than 50 additional conditions and associated medical issues. Each activity is presented in outline style followed by five multiple choice questions.

EndingSuicide.com (previously called MentalHealthCME.com)
Last visited...5/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...19 courses, but only 3 courses offering 3 hours of CME credit currently.
Awarded by....Clinical Tools, Inc.
Cost...........$15 per hour
Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
Target Audiences....General Interest, PSYCH.
Educational material last updated...2007.
Financial Support...National Institute of Mental Health. 
CME credit expires: June to August 2009.

The 3 courses offering credit are Identification of Risk and Protective Factors in Suicide; Physician Practice of Suicide Assessment: Strategies and Tools; and Physician Understanding Therapeutic Interventions for Patients With Suicidality. 

Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy
Last visited...6/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...1.0.
Awarded by....Elsevier Office of Continuing Medical Education.
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instruction Type...
Target Audiences...PSYCH.
Educ. material last updated....2009.
Financial Support...Lilly, Bristol Meyers Squibb and AstraZeneca.

A single course: Critical Advances in the Pharmacotherapy of Mood Disorders (to be offered live on June 17, 2009 and archived thereafter).

MeasureCME 
Last visited…2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours…3.0.
Awarded by…The France Foundation.
Cost…Free.
Instruction Type…Slide-Only.
Target Audiences…PSYCH.
Educational material last updated…6/08.
Financial Support… AstraZeneca.

MEASURE is an acronym for "Modeling Effective Antipsychotic Therapeutic Success by Utilizing Real Evidence." You will find 3 PowerPoint slide shows on the diagnosis, treatment, and management of bipolar disorder.
To receive CME credit, print the CME application and evaluation form, and fax or mail it to The France Foundation.

Neuroscience CME
Last visited....8/2008.
Credit hours...26 activities each offering 1.0 credit hours.
Awarded by....CME Outfitters, LLC.
Cost............Free.
Instruction Type....Slide-Video Lectures; podcasts; monographs (pdf).
Target Audiences....PSYCH.
Educational material last updated...2008.
Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.

Recent archived webcast topics include The Impact of Adherence on Maintenance Treatment in Schizophrenia; Atypical Antipsychotics for Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder; Augmenting Antidepressants with Atypical Antipsychotics in Major Depressive Disorder; Pharmacology of Atypical Antipsychotics: Clinical Impact on Efficacy and Safety; and Posttreatment Outcomes: Combined Pharmacotherapy and Psychosocial Intervention. Many lectures are also available live or as audio call-in shows.

OptumHealth Education
Last visited...5/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD
Credit hours...About 51 activities offering 1 credit each (51 total credits)
Awarded by....various sponsors.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type....Slide-Video Lecture.
Target Audience....PSYCH, CARD, ONCO.
Educational material last updated....2008.
Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.

The slide-video lectures currently available are in the following areas: Cardio (6), Infectious Disease (3), Gastroenterology (1), Neuroscience (32), and Oncology (9).

Projects In Knowledge Advanced Certificate Program: Management of Mood Disorders
Last visited...6/2008.
Credit hours...20 activities, each 0.5 to 1.0 hour, for total of 12 hours.
Awarded by.....Projects in Knowledge.
Cost............Free.
Instruction Type....Slide-Audio and Text.
Target Audience....PSYCH.
Educational material last updated....2008.
Financial Support...Pfizer.
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

These CME activities examine and disseminate current and emerging strategies for treating and managing patients with mood disorders. After concluding this series, you will be able to assess the diagnosis of mood disorders; evaluate the efficacy and safety of antidepressants and other agents; and Identify strategies designed to improve patient outcomes using novel regimens or combination regimens for the treatment of mood disorders. The first 6 activities are already posted (6/14/08); the other 14 will be posted as the year goes on.

Psychiatric Times
Last visited...5/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD
Credit hours...12 articles offering 1.5 credits/article: 18 total credits
Awarded by....CME, Inc.
Cost for Credit....$15/credit
Instruction Type...Text-Only.
Target Audience...PSYCH.
Educ. material last updated....3/09.
Financial Support...None Stated. 

Some recent articles are: Brief Psychotherapies: Potent Approaches to Treatment; Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Guide for the Perplexed; Enhancing Suicide Risk Assessment Through Evidence-Based Psychiatry; Late-Life Depression; The Dementias: Neuropsychiatric Syndromes of the 21st Century; and Elder Abuse. In order to earn CME credit, you must read the article, then take a CME exam at a separate website, CME LLC. Onscreen instructions are provided when linked to the CME exam site.