CMEInfo
- Programs in Sports Medicine
(Sponsored Link)
Last visited...7/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...16.75
Awarded by....New York University Post-Graduate Medical School.
Cost...........$995.
Format...Video DVD, Audio CD, Audio MP3 DVD and others.
Target Audience...ORTHO, RAD.
Educational material updated...2008.
Financial Support...None Stated.
Expiration of CME credit...June 21, 2011.
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Sports Medicine Imaging is designed as a state-of-the-art update on all facets of sports medicine imaging for the radiologist, orthopaedic surgeon, and sports medicine physician. Didactic lectures on imaging of the spine and all articulations are provided. In addition, current thinking on musculoskeletal pediatrics, musculoskeletal ultrasound, cartilage, and post-operative imaging of the shoulder, knee, and wrist are featured. This course also provides panel discussions and interesting case sessions.
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AAPM&R EMG Academe
Last visited...3/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...About 117 activities offering about 120 hours.
Awarded by....AAPM&R.
Cost for Credit....Prices are very variable. See the individual
activity. Members receive about a 30% discount.
Instruction Type...Slide-Audio lectures, Case-based interactive,
Text-Only.
Target Audiences...NEURO, PHYSIATRY, RAD.
Educational material last updated....2010.
Financial support...Some activities have support from pharmaceutical
companies.
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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 Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound for the Physiatrist: An Introduction
(10
hours). You may also purchase individual modules from these courses. There are 15
"slide-audio lectures" on various topics (each offers 0.75 or 1.0
hour).
You will find "cases" in 6 areas: EMG (17), Musculoskeletal (3), Pain
(10), Spinal Cord Injury (2), Stroke (2) and Sports Medicine (2). Two
"journals" also offer CME. PM&R,
currently has 41 articles from 2009 and 2010 each offering 1.0 hour of credit. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
offers 23 articles (each 1.0 hour). Podcasts offer
no credit.
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American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
(AIUM)
Last visited...5/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD,
Credit hours...84 activities each awarding 1.0 hour.
Awarded by....AIUM.
Cost...........Free to members; $40 to non-members.
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics (Ultrasound images).
Target Audience...RAD and all other specialties utilizing ultrasound.
Educational material last updated...2010.
Financial support...None Stated.
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After registering, log on and navigate to JUM
Tests. The Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (JUM) provides 2 or 3 CME self-study tests in every issue.
Areas of interest are: Breast, Basic Science, Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, Gynecology, Musculoskeletal, Obstetrics, Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Radiology/General and Vascular.
Some recent activities are: Comparison of Infection Rates Among Ultrasound-Guided Versus Traditionally Placed Peripheral Intravenous Lines; Three-Dimensional Fast Acquisition With Sonographically Based Volume Computer-Aided Analysis for Imaging of the Fetal Heart at 18 to 22 Weeks' Gestation; Utility of Bedside Sonography to Distinguish Soft Tissue Abnormalities From Joint Effusions in the Emergency Department; Sonographic Features of
Gynecomastia; and Utility of the Ultrasound Elastographic Systolic Thyroid Stiffness Index in Reducing Fine-Needle
Aspirations.
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AuntMinnieCME.com
Last visited...5/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD
Credit hours....480 activities, each offering 20 minutes, for a total of
160 hours.
Awarded by....intellyst® Medical Education.
Cost..........$15 per hour (3 activities).
Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive with many images (radiological).
Target Audiences...RAD.
Educational material last updated....2010.
Financial Support...None Stated.
CME Credit Expires...3 years after the date of the activity.
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This site consists of 480 brief (20 minute) case-based interactive exercise. For each exercise, the objectives are:
1. Explain why the featured patient presented with the stated history.
2. Describe the radiographic findings for the diagnosis.
3. Give a differential diagnosis for the radiographic findings.
4. Discuss key points of the diagnosis.
5. Enumerate other clinical manifestations of the diagnosis.
6. Describe the clinical significance of the diagnosis in the context of the patient's presentation.
7. Describe the natural course of the diagnosis.
8. Correlate the multimodality findings that are associated with the diagnosis for this exercise.
Areas discussed include Breast Imaging, Skull & Brain, Face & Neck, Spine, Musculoskeletal, Heart & Great Vessels, Pulmonary, Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, Vascular & Lymphatics and Other.
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PILOT
(Pulmonary fibrosis Identification: Lessons for Optimizing Treatment)
Last Visited...4/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit Hours: 17 activities offering a total of 13.5 hours. (plus Point of Care,
see ===>)
Awarded by...The France Foundation.
Cost….Free.
Instruction Type…Text-Only, Slide-Only, Podcast, Case-Based-Interactive, Point
of Care.
Target Audiences…PULM, RAD, PATH.
Educational material last updated….2009.
Financial Support…InterMune.
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PILOT focuses on the early diagnosis of idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and disease intervention and management. The five
current offerings include:
4 Interactive Cases, 1.0 hour each;
2 monographs: Managing Comorbidities in IPF; and Lung Transplant,
2.0 hours each;
Peer-to-Peer Dialogue: 10 audio-only discussions between experts, 0.25 hour each;
The PILOT™ Slide Compendium, PowerPoint slides with speaker notes, 3.0
hours; and
Point of Care CME: structured, self-directed online learning that enables
you to earn CME credit for researching questions relevant to your clinical
practice, 0.5 hour per question.
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RSNA's Online
Education contains several types of CME instruction, primarily oriented to
radiologists, organized into 3 sections: Refresher Courses,
RadioGraphics CME tests, and Cases of the Day.
There are “over 300 peer-reviewed programs” available for
study. RSNA also offers Point of Care Learning (PoC), a structured, self-directed, online learning activity designed for physicians on topics relevant to their clinical practice.
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RSNA
Refresher Courses
Last visited...6/2010.
Reviewed by Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...Available to members only. About 60 active courses offering
0.5 to 1.5 hours per course (most are 1.0 hour).
Awarded by....RSNA.
Cost for Credit....Members Only
Instruction Type...Slide-Audio-Lecture.
Target Audience ...RAD.
Educational material last updated.......2009.
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About 60 active Refresher Courses in 27 areas of study. Users are presented with audio and slide presentation that was recorded at previous RSNA annual meetings. RSNA Members can earn CME credit by taking the associated CME test with the course. Non-members can view the course for free but are not eligible for CME credit.
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Radiographics
CME Tests
Last visited...6/2010.
Reviewed by Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...About 200 articles (not counted), 1.0 hour per article.
Awarded by....RSNA.
Cost...........See Above.
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audience ...RAD.
Educational material last updated.....2010.
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Some recent (January 2010) articles include: When to Suspect
Pulmonary Vasculitis: Radiologic and Clinical Clues; Current Concepts in
the Evaluation of Multiple Myeloma with MR Imaging and FDG PET/CT;
Epicondylitis: Pathogenesis, Imaging, and Treatment; Ileal Pouch-Anal
Anastomosis Surgery: Imaging and Intervention for Post-operative
Complications; Helminthic Diseases in the Abdomen: An Epidemiologic and
Radiologic Overview; FDG-PET/CT of Extranodal Involvement in Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma and Hodgkin Disease; and Quantitative CT Assessment of
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
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Cases
of the Day from RSNA Meetings
Last visited...6/2010.
Reviewed by Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours....About 25 courses, 1.0 hour per course
Awarded by....RSNA.
Cost for Credit....See Above.
Instruct. Type...Question-and-Answer.
Target Audience ...RAD.
Educational material last updated.....2010.
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Each set of 5 cases represents one credit. There are cases in the
following areas: Breast, Cardiac, Chest, Emergency Radiology,
Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, Musculoskeletal, Nuclear Medicine,
Neuroradiology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Pediatric Radiology, Physics and
Basic Science, and Ultrasound.
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SNM
Journal CE for Physicians
Last visited...7/2010.
Reviewed by Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...10 courses offering 10 hours.
Awarded by.....Society of Nuclear Medicine.
Cost ................Free to members, $15 for nonmembers.
Instruction Type....Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audience....RAD.
Educational material last updated....2009.
Financial Support...None Stated.
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Some titles are: Nuclear Imaging Techniques for the Assessment of Hepatic Function in Liver Surgery and Transplantation; Economic Evaluation of PET and PET/CT in Oncology: Evidence and
Methodological Approaches; Innovations in Radiotherapy Planning of Head and Neck Cancers: Role of PET; SPECT in Acute Pulmonary Embolism;
and Dosimetry of Pediatric PET/CT.
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SNM
Learning Center Online Lectures and Workshops
Last visited...5/2010.
Reviewed by Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...7 sets of activities totaling about 140 hours.
Awarded by....Society of Nuclear Medicine.
Cost...........$24 per hour for members; $40 per hour for non-members.
Instruction Type...Slide-Audio Lectures.
Target Audience ...RAD.
Educational material last updated.....2009.
Financial Support...Various commercial supporters.
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Courses and (hours) offered:
Oncology PET and PET/CT Lectures (6); Cardiac PET and PET/CT Series (7.5); Molecular Imaging Series (9); Clinical and Molecular Imaging of the Brain Series (3); Basic Science Series (21); 53rd Annual Meeting Webcast (28); 2008 Annual Meeting Webcast (32.5);
and 2006 Annual Meeting Webcast (30).
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