Online CME: Urology
Last Updated January 31, 2008.

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The sites described on this page are primarily concerned with urology. You will find additional online CME sites and courses partially concerning urology at the main online CME site.

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Online Urologic Pathology
Last visited....7/2006.
Credit hours....5.0 each (Total of 10 hours).
Awarded by....AFIP.
Cost...........$50 for each course.
Instruction Type....Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audiences....PATH, URO.
Educational material last updated....2/00.
Financial Support...None Stated.

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."

Baylor Urology
Last visited...7/2005.
Credit hours...2 courses offering 1.75 hours.
Awarded by....Baylor.
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instruction Type....Slide-Audio Lecture or Text-Only.
Target Audiences....UROL.
Educ. material last updated....2005

Two courses: An Update: The Female Sexual Response; and Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Update and the Implications for Improved Patient Outcomes. 

Contemporary Urology
Last visited...1/2008.
Credit hours...5.
Awarded by....CMEWeb.
Cost for Credit......Free. 
Instruction Type...Text-Only or Slide-Video.
Target Audiences...UROL.
Educational material last updated...Monthly
Financial Support...Pharmaceutical Companies.

Activities are called "tests," and contain both content and questions. Recent titles include: Critical evaluation and risk assessment of the elderly patient undergoing urologic surgery; Abdominal fascial wound and skin closure: Current techniques and materials; Is bone mineral density monitoring necessary in urolithiasis patients?; Pulmonary embolism: New algorithms for diagnosis and treatment; and Uric acid calculi: A practical approach to diagnosis, management, and prevention.

Journalbytes Urology
Last visited...6/2006.
Credit hours...36 per year (3.0 per month).
Awarded by.... American Urological Association.
Cost...............$240 per year.
Instruction Type...Most is Text-Only; some Audio.
Target Audience...UROL.
Educational material updated monthly.
Financial Support...None Stated.
Expiration of CME credit...Two years after date of publication.

Each issue contains a variety of types of presentations: Literature Reviews; Critical Discussion and Commentary; Vital Topic; Audio Reviews; Tables of Contents from Key Journals; and an E-quiz offering 3.0 CME credit-hours. 

Medscape Urology
Last visited...11/2006.
Credit hours...Varies from time to time.
Awarded by....Medscape and many other sponsoring organizations.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics, Text-Only, Slide-Audio Lecture, Slide-Video Lecture and Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....UROL.
Educational material last updated...New activities posted frequently.
Financial Support...Many academic, specialty, and commercial sources as well as WebMD.
Expiration of CME Credit...Credit for most activities expires one year after posting.

CME activities of special interest to urologists. Medscape contains a variety of educational formats:
CONFERENCE COVERAGE - Reports of  advances presented at major medical conferences; typically includes several tracks with news stories, expert interviews, and in-depth topic overviews.
CLINICAL UPDATE - Comprehensive original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.
FAST TRACK CLINICAL UPDATE – Narrowly focused original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.
CME-LIVE - Real-time online events with streaming video, synchronized visuals, and interactive questions and answers; archived for 1 year.
NEWS-CME - Daily reports of major current medical research articles; 0.25 credits each
JOURNAL CME - Articles selected from a wide selection of conference reports and peer-reviewed journals, including MedscapeGeneralMedicine (MedGenMed).
SPECIAL REPORT CME – Topic-based monthly email newsletter distributed to Medscape’s professional member database by specialty.
INTERACTIVE PATIENT CASES – Original CME activity presented to the physician in an interactive, clinical case-based format. 
CME CIRCLE – Multimedia content certified by other accredited professional education providers, typically from live symposia or monographs, and then posted on Medscape and archived for one year.

New York Prostate Institute Second Annual Perspectives Meeting on Prostate Cancer 2005  
Last visited....6/2006.
Credit hours...5.5.
Awarded by....South Nassau Communities Hospital.
Cost............Free.
Instruction Type....Slide-Video.
Target Audiences....UROL, ONCO, RAD, IM.
Educational material last updated...2005.
Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical and surgical supply companies.

Click on the "TXT" icon to the left of "The New York Prostate Institute is committed..." to enter the course. At the end of this activity, you should be able to: discuss recent changes in the epidemiology and prevention of prostate cancer; apply recent updates in the early detection of prostate cancer; discuss the implication of pathology, staging and risk assessment; discuss the advances in brachytherapy, external radiation and surgery; describe new techniques of real-time dosimetry for brachytherapy; describe treatment assessment; and discuss salvage treatment options.

NNPTC Online Case Series (National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers)
Last visited...7/2006.
Credit hours...1.0. 1.25 or 1.5 each (total of 4.5 hours).
Awarded by....CDC and NNPTC.
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instruction Type....Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....FP, IM, PED, GYN, UROL, ID.
Educational material last updated....2006.
Financial Support...CDC.

The series includes case presentations of common STD-related syndromes. The guided interactive process helps you to evaluate each case, arrive at a diagnosis and provide recommended treatment. There are four cases: Lydia, a 15-year-old recently incarcerated young woman complaining of vaginal discharge; Melissa, a 20-year-old college student presenting for evaluation of some painless "growths" on her genitals; Brian, a 30-year-old man presenting with a 2-3 day history of urethral discharge and moderate-severe dysuria; and Sam, a 31-year-old man complaining of a painful blister on his penis.

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This list was compiled by Bernard M. Sklar, MD, MS