Internal Medicine CME

After viewing Osteoporosis Management: Advances in Pharmacotherapy, you will be able to:
• Apply the results of diagnostic imaging and pertinent past medical history to determine a given patient’s diagnosis of osteoporosis or osteopenia
• Describe the criteria for initiation of pharmacotherapy for osteoporosis treatment and prevention
• Identify investigational pharmacotherapeutic treatments for management of osteoporosis, and describe their mechanisms of action and likely place in therapy
• Describe the challenges associated with treating patients with osteoporosis, focus specifically on the risks (e.g., adverse drug reactions, drug interactions, etc.) of the agents used to treat and prevent osteoporosis and apply the information in optimizing patient care

Target Audience:
Endocrinologists, geriatricians, internists; physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists who specialize in those areas of medicine and those who otherwise commonly care for patients with osteoporosis.

This series applies national practice guidelines and key research findings to clinical practice. Each case includes didactic information as well as interactive case-based lessons to aid in patient management. S

ome recent topics are:
• Endometrial Cancer;
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease;
• Prostate Cancer Prevention;
• Cervical Cancer;
• Diverticulitis;
• Screening and Detecting Early Signs of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children; and
• Chronic Renal Failure.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Family Medicine or Internal Medicine.

You will find the full text and the CME questions from the last 12 months of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. Recent articles include:
• Nocturia in the elderly: A wake-up call;
• Cervical cancer screening: Less testing, smarter testing;
• Managing glucocorticoid-induced diabetes and adrenal suppression;
• An erythematous plaque on the nose; and
• Osborn waves.

Target Audience: Family Physicians and Physicians focusing on Internal medicine

The “Conferences” section includes programs in 16 specialties, developed by a panel of academic clinicians from 15 U.S. medical schools. eCME games are interactive quizzes.

Target Audiences: Physicians focusing on Family Medicine or Internal Medicine

A set of brief (30 minutes) case simulations about:
• Hepatitis A (3)
• Hepatitis B (14)
• Hepatitis C (6)
• Common Management Issues (2) and
• Health Educator (2).

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Infectious Disease

Read the article and score above 80% on the quiz for credit.

Some topics covered frequently are: Cardiology, Pulmonary, Critical Care, Neurology, Nephrology, and Surgery.

Target Audience: Physicians specializing in Internal Medicine.

As a participant in The Medical Letter CME program:
• You read reviews of FDA-approved and off-label uses of drugs and other treatment modalities;
• You learn to select and prescribe, or confirm the appropriateness of the prescribed usage of the drugs and other therapeutic modalities with specific attention to clinical trials, pathophysiology, dosage and administration, drug metabolism and interactions, and patient management; and
• You learn to make independent and informed therapeutic choices in your practice.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Family Medicine or Internal Medicine.

CME activities of special interest to internists. Medscape contains a variety of educational formats:

CONFERENCE COVERAGE – Reports of advances presented at major medical conferences; typically includes several tracks with news stories, expert interviews, and in-depth topic overviews.

CLINICAL UPDATE – Comprehensive original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.

FAST TRACK CLINICAL UPDATE – Narrowly focused original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.

CME-LIVE – Real-time online events with streaming video, synchronized visuals, and interactive questions and answers; archived for 1 year.

CLINICAL BRIEFS – Daily reports of major current medical research articles; 0.25 credits each

JOURNAL CME – Articles selected from a wide selection of peer-reviewed journals.
SPECIAL REPORT CME – Topic-based monthly email newsletter distributed to Medscape’s professional member database by specialty.

INTERACTIVE PATIENT CASES – Original CME activity presented to the physician in an interactive, clinical case-based format.

CME CIRCLE – Multimedia content certified by other accredited professional education providers, typically from live symposia or monographs, and then posted on Medscape and archived for one year.

Target Audience: Physicians specializing in Internal Medicine

Each week, three articles in the New England Journal of Medicine have a companion CME exam available online. You can earn up to one CME credit for each exam successfully completed. NEJM subscribers receive 20 online exams per year as part of their subscription. Non-subscribers may pay on an hourly basis ($19 per single credit or $109 for 10 exams) and read the articles and take the exams completely online.

Target Audience:
Physicians focusing on Family Medicine and Internal Medicine.

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.