Online CME: Wellness/Prevention//Substance Abuse/Diet
Last Updated January 5, 2008.

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The sites described on this page are primarily concerned with wellness, prevention, substance abuse and dietary topics. You may find additional online CME sites and courses concerning these areas at the main online CME site.

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, and a 5th section on cardiothoracic transplantation, described separately.

  • Alcohol CME.com
    Last visited...2/2007.
    Credit hours....20 courses offering 20 hours.
    Awarded by....Clinical Tools, Inc.
    Cost...........$15
    Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive or Slide-Audio lecture.
    Target Audiences...General Interest, PSYCH.
    Educational material last updated....2006.
    Financial support...National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Activities consist of replays of live conferences, Best Practice - Core Courses, Alcohol Science and Best Practice - Other Courses.

  • BuprenorphineCME.com
    Last visited...2/2007.
    Credit hours....12 courses offering 8 hours and DATA 2000 certification.
    Awarded by....Clinical Tools, Inc.
    Cost...........$150,
    Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
    Target Audiences...General Interest, PSYCH.
    Educational material last updated....2006.
    Financial support...National Institute on Drug Abuse and The American Society of Addiction Medicine.

"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...2/2007.
    Credit hours....Courses offer 0.5 to 1.5 hours each (18 courses offering a total of 18 hours)
    Awarded by....Clinical Tools, Inc.
    Cost...........$15,
    Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
    Target Audiences...General Interest, PSYCH.
    Educational material last updated....2006.
    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...2/2007.
    Credit hours....Courses offer 0.5 to 1.5 hours each (18 courses offering a total of 18 hours)
    Awarded by....Clinical Tools, Inc.
    Cost...........$15,
    Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
    Target Audiences...General Interest, PSYCH.
    Educational material last updated....2006.
    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...2/2007.
    Credit hours....9.5.
    Awarded by....American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).
    Cost...........$150,
    Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
    Target Audiences...General Interest, PSYCH.
    Educational material last updated....2006.
    Financial support...National cancer Institute and national heart Lung and Blood Institute.

To earn your 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. There are also 3 optional courses: Julie: Pregnancy and Smoking, Teens and Tobacco: A Case, and Children and Tobacco: Three Cases.

AIM to Change: Encouraging Fitness for All
Last visited...1/2008.
Credit hours...2.0.
Awarded by....AAFP.
Cost..........Free to AAFP members; $15 each for non-members.
Instruct. Type...Slide-Audio-Lecture (WebEx).
Target Audience....FP.
Educ. material last updated...2/07.
Financial support...None Stated.

The purpose of this activity is to encourage family physicians to "approach every patient encounter as an opportunity to engage in a fitness conversation" and to "utilize behavioral counseling techniques to open a dialogue" (about fitness and obesity). You may view the slide-audio presentation using WebEx and / or download the slides as a pdf file.

Ask and Act Webcasts (Smoking Cessation)
Last visited...1/2008.
Credit hours...2.0 per webcast (5 webcasts offering a total of 10 hours). Only AAFP members can earn credit.
Awarded by....AAFP.
Cost..........Free.
Instruct. Type...Slide-Audio-Lecture (WebEx).
Target Audience....FP.
Educ. material last updated...2006.
Financial support...Smoking Cessation Leadership Center.
CME Credit Expires...Not stated.

Five webcasts on various aspects of helping patients with tobacco dependence. You may view the slide-audio presentation using WebEx and / or download the slides as a pdf file.

Assessment and Management of Overweight and Obese Adult Patients
Last visited....7/2006.
Credit hours...2.0.
Awarded by....Ciné-Med, Inc., and the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute, National Institutes of Health.
Cost............$15.
Instruction Type....Mostly Text; some audio.
Target Audiences....FP, IM.
Educational material last updated...2002.
Financial Support...None Stated.

This course intends to help you to understand the importance of weight  management,  recognize the health risks associated with overweight and obesity in adults, recognize the motivations as well as the barriers to successful weight loss and use the treatment algorithm to determine who to treat, when to treat and how to treat overweight and obese patients.

 

Dartmouth Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond
Last visited...6/2006.
Credit hours...Up to 5.
Awarded by....Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Cost...........$15.
Instruct. Type...Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....FP, IM, PED, OB/GYN, General Interest.
Educational material last updated..2004.
Financial support...None Stated.

This program, based on the "Virtual Practicum" model, is intended for health care providers who will be assisting their female patients in quitting smoking, in particular, patients who are pregnant or in their child-bearing years.

Journalbytes Integrative Medicine
Last visited...6/2006.
Credit hours...36 per year (3.0 per month).
Awarded by.... Johns Hopkins.
Cost..........$240 per year.
Instruction Type...Most is Text-Only; some Audio.
Target Audience... General Interest.
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. 

Stress and Cardiovascular Disease
Last visited...11/2006.
Credit hours...1.0.
Awarded by.....University of Kentucky School of Medicine.
Cost ................$15.
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audience ...FP, IM, CARD.
Educational material last updated...7/02.
Financial Support...Maharishi College of Vedic Medicine.

The purpose of this CME program is to familiarize physicians with medical benefits of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique and the research on its health applications, with emphasis on cardiovascular disease, its risk factors, stress, hypertension, and overall health.

Webility
Last visited...11/2006.
Credit hours...2.5.
Awarded by....American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
Cost for Credit.....$75 (some insurance companies may pay for the course).
Instruction Type....Text-and-Audio.
Target Audiences....General Interest
Educational material last updated...2004.
Financial Support...None Stated.

A single course: Disability Prevention for Treating Clinicians: Talking About Ability to Work. After completing this course, you will know the questions that employers and insurers need treating physicians to answer in disability cases; understand the role of the physician in preventing the development of iatrogenic disability; see the connection between giving timely and adequate return-to-work advice, better patient outcomes, and improved customer satisfaction; and see how you can assist employers in reducing medically unnecessary time off work. 

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This list was compiled by Bernard Sklar, MD, MS