Connecticut CME Requirements and CME Courses

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Enhance Your Infectious Disease Knowledge with Online CME

Directed by James H. Maguire, MD, The Brigham Board Review in Infectious Diseases is comprehensive continuing medical education that covers a wide range of topics in a relevant and rapidly evolving field.

Through case-based lectures and in-depth discussions, this expertly designed review sheds light on the entire gamut of issues related to infectious diseases. It’s online CME that will help you to better:

• Assimilate and demonstrate improved overall knowledge of infectious diseases
• Correlate pathophysiology and pathobiologic principles with clinical presentations
• Evaluate the latest therapeutic strategies, their risks and benefits
• Appraise the management of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, zoonoses, viral hepatitis, etc.
• Incorporate new knowledge into daily practice to provide paramount care to the patients
• Prepare for ABIM Infectious Diseases certification/recertification examinations

Learning Objectives

After viewing this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Integrate and demonstrate increased overall knowledge of infectious diseases
• Identify and improve knowledge and clinical competence-based practice gaps in infectious diseases
• Correlate pathophysiology and pathobiologic principles with clinical presentations
• Describe optimal therapeutic strategies and their risks and benefits
• Apply the knowledge and strategies gained through participation in this activity to the board exam and daily practice

Intended Audience

This educational activity was designed for practicing infectious disease specialists, internists with an interest in infectious disease, and fellows and trainees who are preparing to become board certified, maintaining their certification, or who seek CME activities to improve patient care in the area of infectious disease.

Infection Control for Physicians will help you to:
• Use evidence-based risk management practices and current guidelines to control infection in health care personnel;
• Improve your knowledge and skills in blood borne infection, drug resistant organisms, and outpatient respiratory illness; and
• Meet state infection control training requirements.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island (Universal Precautions), Rhode Island (Infection Control / Modes of Transmission) and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Infection Control.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Infectious Diseases. 

Learn from Risk Management Experts

You’ll discover key strategies for protecting both your patients and your practice with this series of in-depth audio discussions focused on important topics in risk management and health care ethics. Led by Richard P. Kidwell, JD, Senior Associate Counsel and Vice President of Risk Management at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, medicolegal experts share their valuable insights on:

• Opioid prescribing pitfalls
• Complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Preparting for and participating in depositions
• Alternative dispute resolution (ADR), including mediation and arbitration
• Issues with electronic records
• Avoiding potential fraud and abuse claims

Learning Objectives

After participating in this activity, the learner will be able to:

• Avoid potential fraud and abuse claims
• Create electronic records that will cover ongoing patient care and prevent or provide a defense to medical malpractice claims
• Prepare for and perform confidently when testifying at a deposition
• Understand the advantages of participating in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) rather than taking the riskier course of letting a lay jury decide a medical malpractice case

Intended Audience

Physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and others interested in the education of risk management.

A Guide to the Secrets of Never-Sued Physicians will help you to:
• Utilize the behaviors of never-sued physicians and incorporate them into daily practice;
• Refrain from using specific physician behaviors that precipitate lawsuits;
• Recognize potentially litigious patients and put into practice methods for dealing with them
• Practice medicine in a way that is consistent with recognized ethical principles.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Risk Management.

Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors will help you to:
• Recognize how root causes and other factors contribute to errors and medical adverse events;
• Understand the difference between active and latent causes of medical adverse events;
• Manage your ethical obligation to promptly and openly disclose a medical error to a patient and their family;
• Develop ongoing patient safety improvement efforts based on national standards and guidelines

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Medical Errors

Risk Management and the Art of Medicine will help you to:
• Identify physician behaviors that lead to malpractice lawsuits;
• Explain the four elements required to prove a claim of medical malpractice;
• Incorporate strategies you can use to reduce your malpractice risk; and
• Practice medicine in a way that is consistent with recognized ethical principles.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Risk Management

A Clinician’s Guide to Sexual Assault will help you to:
• Understand the epidemiology of sexual assault;
• Anticipate your patients’ needs; and
• Meet legal and forensic requirements in assault cases.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Texas.

The program presents a series of typical emergency room encounters with victims of domestic violence.

DVeducation.ca is the “online source for evidence-based, interactive curricula on intimate partner abuse and sexual violence”

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on domestic violence.