Florida CME Requirements and CME Courses

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

The Human Side of Medical Errors will help you to:
• Deal with complex ethical issues that arise when caring for colleagues;
• Share bad news with patients or families compassionately and effectively;
• Participate in safe and efficient patient handoffs with other healthcare providers; and
• Recognize and respond appropriately to disruptive behavior that is endangering patient safety within the health care team.

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

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Risk Management.

Using Systematic Procedures to Prevent Medical Errors will help you to:
• Use standardized procedures and checklists to reduce medical errors;
• Manage informed consent;
• Utilize rapid response teams; and
• Better approach communication difficulties.

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

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Medical Errors.

Current Management of Domestic Violence – Responding to IPV will help you to:
• Improve your skills by managing up to 17 patient cases;
• Meet your ethical and legal obligations to screen patients for intimate partner violence (IPV); and appropriately respond to disclosures of abuse; Assess the safety of IPV victims; and
• Work with your patients to change their violent situation.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, 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.

After completing the Immune Reconstitution Syndrome in AIDS, you should be better able to:
• Recognize that restoration of immunologic function in persons with HIV disease may lead to a worsening clinical picture, the immune reconstitution syndrome.
• Diagnose and manage occult opportunistic infections in persons with newly treated HIV disease.
• Treat CNS cryptococcal disease in persons with AIDS.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut and Florida.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Infectious Diseases.

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.