Florida CME Requirements and CME Courses

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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

With eight categories of HIV meds now available, healthcare professionals need to be up to date about these therapies. Whether using regimens from 20 years ago, or the newest drugs healthcare professionals need to be monitoring adherence to those regimens. By providing data from the San Francisco Study to show the needs for 95% adherence. This Florida-approved course will also describe the advantages and disadvantages of each category of drugs, as well as those individual drugs.

This course fulfills the ACCME, Florida Board of Medicine, and Florida Physician Assistants requirement to provide medical professionals with a clearer understanding of medical errors, the devastating effects that these errors can have on both patients and health care providers, and how to use root cause analysis to identify and prevent common medical errors.

This course fulfills the Florida Board requirement for MDs and PAs for a domestic violence training that discusses the categories, signs and symptoms, and reporting obligations for known or suspected domestic violence cases.

This course is designed for healthcare professionals and those in allied professions who may come into contact with and be called upon to intervene on behalf of victims of human trafficking within the scope of their practice.

According to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 3.8 million people (1.4% of those ages 12 or older) reported misusing prescription pain relievers, while another 329,000 people reported using heroin. Within the same year, 52,404 lethal overdoses took place, making drug overdose the leading cause of accidental death within the United States. Stancliff et al estimated that as of 2012, approximately 80% of people dependent on heroin or prescription opioids were not engaged in any treatment and many in treatment do not use the most effective medication-assisted treatments available to them.

Despite recent increased awareness of opioid use disorder (OUD) and efforts to improve access to care, several barriers to treatment still exist, including financial, geographic, regulatory, and social. In 2012, only 2.2% of physicians in the United States obtained waivers to prescribe buprenorphine for the treatment of OUD. Of those who received waivers, 41.6% were psychiatrists. This may be perceived as a potential barrier to OUD treatment as patients are often resistant to referrals to psychiatric and/or addiction clinics given the stigmas commonly surrounding addiction and mental health. Furthermore, physicians with waivers were found to practice primarily in urban settings, leaving a large portion of the rural population without access to buprenorphine treatment.

With all this in mind, education is needed in regards to current and emerging treatment options for OUD available to multiple patient populations. Also, with the deaths due to drug overdoses still elevated, education on how to recognize and reverse an opioid overdose is needed.

This presentation will address the above needs by discussing the science behind opioid use disorder as well as reflect upon current statistics associated with its impact on the United States. During the discussion, opioid overdose risks will be discussed and participants will be able to practice recognizing key symptoms of an overdose situation. Steps of using naloxone will be discussed and connected to how to appropriately seek out treatment for maintenance of opioid use disorder. Finally, new buprenorphine products and the potential role of naltrexone will be applied to this stigmatized population.

The Surgery and Advanced Wound Care Summit for Podiatrists and Residents is a 16 CME/CECH-accredited virtual medical conference geared towards podiatric surgeons and advanced wound care podiatrists, along with the podiatric residency community. Dr Harold Schoenhaus and Dr. Robert Frykberg are Co-chairs for the event and welcome a prestigious teaching faculty. The goal of this Conference is to bring podiatric surgeons, advanced wound care podiatrists, surgical residents, and other healthcare members of our residency community to a virtual conference designed especially to best meet their surgical, wound care, and medical educational needs. This prestigious conference is attended by the podiatrists in this important and influential group that makes up those in private practice or outpatient clinic based, along with our nation’s podiatric residency community. The attendees focus on advanced technologies that provide practical experience to advance attendees’ skills and patient outcomes.