Bernard M. Sklar, M.D., M.S.
1133 Amador Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94707
Phone 510-526-4018
Fax 510-527-7030
April 25, 2004
Present Employment:
I am now working part-time as a psychiatrist and family
physician for the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services in
Oakland, CA. I am still available for consulting on issues about Online Continuing Medical
Education (CME).
Special Interest:
My area of special interest is online continuing medical
education (CME). I completed a master’s degree in medical informatics at
the University of California, San Francisco, in June 2000.
Recently Completed Work in
Medical Computing:
From March to June 2003, I worked as the CME Editor with Medscape to create
a daily News CME article based on research articles from the current
medical literature (www.medscape.com).
In Fall of 2002, I was the chief judge
in a contest to choose the best online CME. That prize was awarded at the E-Health
Developers Summit in November 2002.
From June 2001 through November 2002, I created and
maintained a database of all online CME courses and composed weekly articles on
various aspects of online CME for www.professionallearningcenter.com
(This site is no longer operational).
Consulting Activities:
Over the past three years, I have consulted on online continuing medical
education issues for American Medical News, MD Net Guide, HealthStream,
Medscape, Schering-Plough, and Medix.com.au.
Lectures and Presentations:
I have presented papers or posters on online CME topics to the
Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry, the Alliance for
Continuing Medical Education, the Global Alliance for Continuing
Medical Education and the American Association for Technology in Psychiatry.
Publications:
Sklar, B.M., The Current Status of Online Continuing Medical
Education, Masters Thesis, June 2000, University of California, San
Francisco, Graduate Program in Medical Information Science,
Sklar, B.M., Online CME – An
Update.
Ribble, J. G. & Sklar, B.M.
CME Credits as Indicators of Improved Physician Competence: An Online Survey,
presented at the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Annual Meeting, January 2003.
Sklar, B.M., An Introduction to Online CME, Family Practice Management,
March 2003, 59-60.
Sklar, B.M., Introduction to Online CME, Southern California Physician,
April 2003, S4.
Sklar, B.M., Introduction to Online CMEs, County Line (Clark County
Medical Society), Newsletter XXXVIII, March 2003, Pages 1, 8-9.
Sklar, B.M., Online Continuing Medical Education (CME) for
Gastroenterologists, World Gastroenterology News, 7: 10-12, 2002
Sklar, B.M., Continuing Medical Education on the Internet, Medical
Economics AudioDigest, 4:7, 2001.
Sklar, B.M., Online CME, Canadian Journal of CME, 13:2 27-28, 2001.
Sklar, B.M., Online CME for Specialists, Canadian Journal of CME, 13:6,
27, 2001.
Cashen, M.S. et al, Implementing a Web-based Information Resource at an
Inner-city Community Church, CIN: Computers, Information, Nursing, Vol.
20, Number 6, Pages 244-50.
In addition to research in online continuing medical education, I
served as research assistant on two projects: One project, done in
collaboration with several other students, was to teach staff and clients
at a free clinic how to access HIV/AIDS-related materials on the Internet.
I set up the web site and analyzed how clients and staff used the site.
The other project was to assess the clinical vocabulary used by physicians
and nurse practitioners in the care of HIV/AIDS patients. Four other
students and I abstracted about one thousand medical charts and analyzed
the vocabulary usage in those charts.
I assisted in the development of an interactive online continuing medical
education in the area of domestic violence.
I developed a prototype web site to allow physicians to search for online
CME.
Course Work in Medical Informatics:
While in graduate school, I took courses in Biostatistics, Imaging Informatics, Computer Assisted Medical
Decision Making, Health Care Outcomes Research, Healthcare Concept
Representation, Abstraction and Modeling, Consumer Health Informatics,
Clinical Information Systems and C programming. I also served as teaching
assistant for the Introductory Course in Healthcare Informatics.
Work in Medical Computing prior to Graduate School:
Author of the Primary Care version of PAIGE
(the PAtient Instruction Generator), published by Mad
Scientist Software, 1996.
Webmaster for the Alameda
Travel Vaccination Center, 1995-97. (The Center is no longer seeing
patients, but the web site continues to provide links to
sources of medical travel information.)
Author of PRICAR96.R1
(a set of 66 computerized foresighted practice guidelines for primary
care, designed to be used with HUB),
1995-97.
Organized course in using the World Wide Web, Alameda
Hospital 1996.
Organized CME course in medical computing Alameda
Hospital 1994.
General Computing Experience:
Regular use of Microsoft Windows XP, Internet Explorer, Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint and
FrontPage; Netscape Navigator, FTP, HTML, WinZip, America Online, Quicken, EndNote, Adobe PhotoShop, Paint Shop Pro 7 and
Eudora.
Familiar with BASIC, Visual Basic, JavaScript, C, UNIX and Perl.
Medical Practice Experience:
Present: Practice of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services,
Oakland, CA.
Practice of Family Medicine, Alameda CA, 1977-1997.
Hospital Practice: Alameda
Hospital, 1977-1997, 2070 Clinton Avenue Alameda, CA
Director, Alameda
Travel Vaccination Center, Alameda, CA, 1986-1997.
Practice of Psychiatry, Alameda, CA, 1972-1976
Practice of Psychiatry, Berkeley, CA, 1968-1972
Psychiatry and General Medicine, United States Army, Fort Jackson, SC,
1963-1965
Research:
Online Continuing Medical
Education.
Principal Investigator in fourteen pharmaceutical clinical trials.
1986-1996.
Medical Teaching:
Preceptor for twelve family nurse practitioner and physician assistant
students (from Stanford University Medical Center, University of
California Medical Center San Francisco, California State University
Sonoma and University of Texas), 1983-1996.
Licensure, Board Certification and Associations:
Medical Licensure: California, Current for 2003.
Board Certified: American Board of Family Practice: 1978.
Recertified: American Board of Family Practice: 1984, 1989, 1995, and
2001.
Board Certified: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1974.
Associations: Alliance for Continuing Medical Education; American Academy
of Family Physicians; American Medical Association; California Medical
Association; Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Association.
Education:
Bachelor of Science 1957, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Doctor of Medicine 1962, Hahnemann University (now Drexel University), Philadelphia, PA
Rotating Internship 1962-1963, Alta Bates-Herrick Hospital, Berkeley, CA
Psychiatry Residency 1963,1965-1968, Alta Bates-Herrick Hospital,
Berkeley, CA
Preceptorship in Family Practice 1976-1977, Merrithew Memorial Hospital,
Martinez, CA
Bernard M. Sklar, MD, MS
1133 Amador Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94707.
Telephone: 510-526-4018.
Fax: 510-527-7030.
Email: bersklar@netcantina.com
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