Free CME

Practice Point: HIV offers various vidoes, clinical clips, interactive case, and mini modules focusing on HIV.

All the courses are free and offers CME credits.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Infectious Disease

ReachMD consists entirely of podcasts offering 0.25 to 0.75 credit-hours. These can be listened to on your computer, mp3 player, XM Satellite radio or iPhone. Most activities are in general adult medicine and OB/GYN.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and OB-GYN.

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 Safe and Effective Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain, you will be able to:
• Discuss the breadth and quality of evidence for the use of opioids for chronic pain, including current gaps in knowledge.
• Describe appropriate assessment, monitoring and documentation strategies to meet best practice standards and medico-legal requirements to support opioid prescribing.
• Apply appropriate communications strategies when initiating, managing, and, if necessary, terminating opioids for patients with chronic pain.
• Describe, screen for, and manage potential co-morbidities in chronic pain patients.
• Apply a practical framework for decision-making on the initiation, maintenance, and discontinuation of opioid analgesics for the treatment of chronic pain.
This program meets the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for 4 hours of risk management study and 4 hours of opioid education.

Target Audience:
Physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dentists, and pharmacists

After completing Scope of Pain: Safe & Competent Opioid Prescribing Education, you will be able to:
• Discuss prevalence of chronic pain in the US
• Discuss prevalence of the use and misuse of opioid analgesics
• Describe the pharmacology, efficacy and safety of opioid analgesics
• Describe the components of a thorough opioid misuse risk assessment for a potential candidate for chronic opioid therapy
• Describe universal precautions and their role in chronic opioid therapy
• Describe monitoring and documentation strategies for chronic opioid therapy
• Describe initiating opioid therapy
• Apply counseling and communication strategies to ensure appropriate and safe use of opioid medications
• Assess differential diagnosis for aberrant medication taking behavior – Pain relief vs drug seeking

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Pain Management

Over 125 text-only courses in a comprehensive variety of hematology and oncology areas. Some recent topics are:
• Comparative Effectiveness Research in Oncology
• Oncology Comparative Effectiveness Research: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Principles for Conduct and Reporting
• Progress in the biological understanding and management of breast cancer associated CNS metastases
• Multicenter Italian Experience in Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in HIV Infected Patients
• Prospective Head and Neck Cancer Research: a Four-Decade Bibliometric Perspective
• Role of Postoperative Vitamin D and/or Calcium Routine Supplementation in Preventing Hypocalcemia After Thyroidectomy

Target Audiences: Hematologists, Oncologists

South Texas Regional Family Medicine Grand Rounds is a weekly CME program that is directed by the Department of Family & Community Medicine in partnership with the South Central Area Health Education Center (AHEC). Grand Rounds is presented live in each week and then archived for later viewing.

Some recent lectures are:
• Multiple Sclerosis: Management in Primary Care
• Diabetes Therapy and Drug Selection
• Bone Tumors
• Warfarin vs. New Anticoagulants
• Age-related Osteoporosis: A primary care health problem

Target Audiences:
Physicians specializing in Family Medicine

Southern Medical Journal offers many CME courses offering a range of CME credits.

Topics covered include:
Vaccines, Obesity, Personality Disorders, Hypertension, HIV/AIDS, Osteoperosis, and many more.

Target Audience: Multiple Specialties

This site contains various CME activities including:
Archived Symposias, Cardiology Grand Rounds, presentations on Ethics, sessions on Heart Sounds, Echocardiography, Sleep Apnea, and more.

Target Audience:
Physicians specializing in Cardiology, Thoracic Surgery, and Vascular Surgery.

There is a huge quantity of CME material in varying formats.

This includes:
• Classes (Interactive presentations that allow you to learn at your own pace);
• Lectures (with slide presentations).
• CME From The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (each activity includes multiple articles).
• CME From The Primary Care Companion (each activity from includes a PDF of one or more articles).
• Supplements to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (most offer CME credit).
• Supplements to The Primary Care Companion (offer CME credit, and the full text is available free online).

Target Audience: Psychiatrists