American College of Chest
Physicians (ACCP)
Last visited...2/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...45 activities offering a total of 97 hours.
Awarded by....American College of Chest Physicians.
Cost for Credit....Free or $5-25 per hour (see individual activty)
Instruction Type....Text-Only, Streaming Video, Slide-Audio Lecture AND Case-Based
Interactive.
Target Audiences...PULM, CRIT CARE.
Educational material last updated.....2010
Financial Support...Some activities have industry support.
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The American College of Chest
Physicians (ACCP) offers CME in three categories: Pulmonary and Critical Care Update
(PCCU); CHESTSoundings; and PACEP (The Pulmonary Artery Catheter Education Project).
These are described in detail below.
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Pulmonary and
Critical Care Update (PCCU)
Last visited...2/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...1.0 per lesson (24 hours per year; possible maximum of 72 hours)
Awarded by....American College of Chest Physicians.
Cost for Credit....Free for members of the ACCP; $192 for 24 hours for
non-members (payable in advance; this fee is from previous visit; I could not
find the current fee).
Instruction Type....Text-Only.
Target Audiences...PULM, CRITICAL CARE.
Educational material last updated.....Monthly.
CME Credit Expires...3 years after posting.
Financial Support...None Stated.
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Pulmonary and
Critical Care Update (PCCU) is the major offering from the ACCP. Each month,
this online journal provides two lessons
on pulmonary and critical care topics. Some recent topics are: The Unexpandable Lung; Biostatistics and Epidemiology for the Clinician;
and Respiratory Airway Medications: Select Toxicities and Drug Interactions.
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CHESTSoundings
Last visited...2/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...19 activities each offering 0.5 credit-hours (total of 9.5
hours).
Awarded by....American College of Chest Physicians.
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instruction Type....Streaming Video.
Target Audiences...PULM, CRITICAL CARE.
Educational material last updated.....2010.
Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies.
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A set of brief video activities featuring a single expert on a single topic.
Some recent titles are: Adjuvant Management Strategies in the Critically Ill Ventilated Patient; Case Studies in Pulmonary Vascular Disease: What Every Pulmonologist Should Know; Challenges in Management of Pulmonary Hypertension: ICU and Pregnancy; Clinical Conundrum: Two Differing Guidelines on VTE Prevention in Hip and Knee Surgery—Implications and Recommendations;
and COPD 2010.
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PACEP (The Pulmonary Artery Catheter Education Project)
Last visited...2/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...Level I - 10 hours; Level II - 5 hours.
Awarded by....American College of Chest Physicians.
Cost for Credit....$26.
Instruction Type....Slide-Audio Lecture AND Case-Based Interactive.
Target Audiences...PULM, CRITICAL CARE.
Educational material last updated.....2007.
Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.
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The Pulmonary Artery Catheter Education Project (PACEP) was designed to show pulmonologists and other
critical care specialists how to use the pulmonary artery catheter in the clinical environment and measure learning outcomes. Topics are divided into four levels (Levels I - IV; only Levels I and II are presently available) to facilitate participant progression from novice to expert.
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TheAnswerPage
Last visited...6/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...Up to 60 hours per year (240 questions) in each
specialty; about 300 hours available.
Awarded by...TheAnswerPage.com and Thomas Beam, Jr. Memorial
Institute for Continuing Medical Education.
Cost....$150 per year for unlimited credit.
Instruction Type...Question-and-Answer.
Target Audience...ANES, PAIN MGMT, OB-GYN, NEONATAL, CRITICAL CARE.
Educational material last updated...Daily Updates.
Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.
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TheAnswerPage.com
offers 0.25 hours of CME credit for study of the Question of the Day.
You may study that question "today," or view an archive of
questions. There are no quizzes; credit is applied to your
account automatically as you go through the questions and answers,
which are authored by faculty from Harvard and other
medical schools. There are separate sections for Anesthesiology,
Pain Management, Hospital
& Critical Care,
Obstetrics & Gynecology And Newborn
Medicine. TheAnswerPage also has a handheld-based
CME program,
included in the same annual fee, which allows you to receive CME credit
for
study directly on handheld computers.
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