Internal Medicine CME

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This extensive Clinical Guidelines and Updates CME Topical Collection offers a wide range of clinical practice updates in areas such as hospital medicine, infectious disease, primary care issues and much more.

Key Topics in Risk Management CME

Risk Management for Medical Practitioners focuses on the major risk management areas and legal pitfalls encountered in everyday practice and on enduring principles and strategies for managing these risks. This online CME course teaches risk management principles and current developments in liability prevention.

Through lectures and panel discussions, faculty address the impact of COVID-19 and its implications for clinical practice. Current concepts in malpractice prevention and risk management “hot spots” are emphasized, including best ways to diminish risks associated with documentation and informed consent. It’s available online, so you can conveniently earn CME credits while learning more about topics such as:

• Email communication risks
• Prescription monitoring programs
• Curbside consultation: Pros and cons
• Supervisor liability for nurse practitioners, PAs, residents, and medical students
• Strategies if sued
• Witness stand perils and opportunities
• Malpractice insurance coverage
• and many more!

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be better able to apply the following:

• Describe the essential of risk management in medical, surgical and psychiatric practices
• Successfully navigate the realities of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Document with diminished liability risk
• Outline risks of telemedicine, email communications, and electronic medical record
• Describe the risks related to your licensing board
• Discuss liability issues pertaining to the prescription monitoring program and the consequences of the Notebook
• Review strategies for improved communication when things go wrong
• Assess risks in supervising trainees, nurse practitioners & physician assistants
• Utilize strategic tips about liability protection from both plaintiff’s attorney and defense attorney and practicing clinicians
• Discuss informed consent and the heightened expectations of the Boards process rather than a signed form
• Better navigate the insurer’s perspective about liability
• Distinguish between curbside vs. formal consultation and understand their benefits and risks

Target Audience

This activity is targeted towards physicians of all specialties, with a special focus on medical, surgical, and psychiatric practices.

Expert Clinicians Share Lessons Learned from Medical Mishaps

What My Mistakes Taught Me is a truly unique and illuminating online CME program. In 22 one-hour lectures, physicians from different areas of medicine and surgery discuss the expertise they’ve gained from problems, mistakes, and errors in clinical practice.

Led by Martin A. Samuels, MD, these experienced clinicians share case studies and the take-away messages learned from their own medical mishaps, emphasizing that:

• While we’re not perfect, we’re still valued contributors to our profession and society
• Perceived mistakes help us live with our imperfections and strengthen our integrity
• Recognized mistakes tell us what works and what doesn’t
• Accepting mistakes helps us take responsibility for erroneous ideas or actions
• Open acknowledgement of mistakes inspires others to do likewise

Women’s Health CME: Key Topics in Primary Care

Healthcare providers are continually challenged to stay abreast of a large volume of emerging research in order to assess evidence and correctly analyze its application to the clinical care of women.

In Cleveland Clinic’s Primary Care Women’s Health: Essentials and Beyond, faculty address clinical gaps in several practice areas with evidence-based CME lectures that will help physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses to:

• Identify the impact of obesity and present prevention and treatment for the disorder
• Address gender-related differences in HIV screening, diagnosis, and treatment
• Compare and contrast direct-to-consumer and consumer-directed genetic testing
• Summarize the risk assessment, prevention, and gender-based treatment of cardiovascular disease
• Identify the benefits, risks, and FDA-approved indications for hormone therapy and review the clinical application for postmenopausal women
• Discuss the significance of culturally competent care for LGBTQ individuals and identify strategies for creating LGBTQ affirming environments

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Understanding medicine has never been so simplified.

The Cleveland Clinic Ultrasound Workshop focuses on developing foundational diagnostic and procedural skills that can be quickly applied to clinical practice. Physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners across multiple specialties will benefit from lectures and demonstrations from more than twenty expert educators. This activity will provide a greater understanding of ultrasound as an imaging and interventional tool. As such, the lessons learned should have a direct impact on patient care. Worth 9.5 AMA PRA Category I Credits™, with ANCC and AAPA accreditation provided as well!

Activity Description / Statement of Need:

In this online, self-learning activity:

The WHO defines vaccine hesitancy (VH) as a “delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite the availability of vaccination services.” Despite substantial progress in rates of routine immunization over the decades prior to the most recent one, more recent trends suggest that immunization rates are beginning to plateau. Beyond VH and skepticism, there is also the embrace of outright vaccine rejection or denial fostered by the presence disinformation on conventional and social media platforms including claims that vacines are unsafe or unnecessary. Recent outbreaks of largely eradicated diseases such as measles, mumps, and diphtheria suggest that herd immunity may have suffered, putting those ineligible for vaccination at additional risk of infection. These developments have been attributed in part to VH and denial.

One large group with increasing VH is parents. A 2019 national survey found that approximately 1 in 4 parents reported serious concerns towards vaccinating their children. Another study saw that in up to 35% parents of well-vaccinated children demonstrate VH. Parents may raise issues that many providers feel ill-equipped to answer, due to lack of thorough knowledge of all vaccines or lack of evidence-based communication strategies. Unfortunately, only few evidence-based strategies exist to guide providers in their discussions with vaccine-hesitant parents.

Providers play a crucial role in vaccinating populations, but it is not and should not be their sole responsibility. Clinical practice sites, community organizations, health organizations, and government all contribute to addressing VH. Understanding potential solutions outside the office, such as media campaigns and policy changes, also provide insight into vaccine hesitancy and potential directions for future use.

Target Audience:

The following HCPs: Primary care physicians, pediatricians, and public health professionals; physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists who practice in adult internal medicine and pediatrics; and any other clinicians who commonly encounter patients eligible for protection against vaccine-preventable diseases.

Online CME: Discover New Primary Care Guidelines

Led by Dr. Robert B. Baron and taught by UCSF’s best teachers, this continuing medical education program addresses a range of primary care topics: preventive medicine, reduction of cardiovascular risk factors, day-to-day clinical problems, chronic disease management, women’s health, geriatrics, behavioral medicine, optimal use of diagnostic tests, new medications, and more.

UCSF Primary Care Medicine: Principles and Practices includes 22 online CME lectures that will help you meet the challenges of health disparities and the care of vulnerable and complex patients. Learn to maximize quality, safety, equity, and value, along with essential strategies for collaboration with other specialists, inpatient colleagues, and diverse teams of health professionals.

Learning Objectives

The purpose of this course is to increase competence and improve clinician practice in primary care. We specifically anticipate improvements in skills and strategies to:

• Understand the impact that COVID-19 has had on primary care practice and use best evidence to treat patients with COVID-related conditions and concerns, including vaccinations and post-COVID sequelae
• Implement new guidelines in office-based preventive medicine, including new strategies for cancer screening, immunizations, prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke, and STDs
• Manage common office problems including diabetes, coronary heart disease, valvular heart disease, chronic kidney disease, heart failure, asthma, COPD, stroke, TIAs, osteoporosis, common cancers, Parkinson’s Disease, dementia, chronic pain and substance use disorder
• Manage common specialty problems in neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine and critical care, oncology, dermatology, allergy and immunology, gynecology, and perioperative care
• Diagnose and treat common problems in women’s health including cervical, breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancer, contraception, osteoporosis, and gynecological concerns of older women
• Understand the health implications of climate change and what health professional can do about it
• Improve skills in medical documentation to maximize clinical efficiency and quality, best practices, and alignment with recent changes in federal requirements
• Select the best diagnostic tests and enhance value in medical practice
• Use best evidence and optimize patient communication and shared-decision making
• Become a better clinician and advocate with a deeper understanding of structural racism, health disparities, and the central role of primary care clinicians in providing equitable, patient-centered care

Intended Audience

This course is designed for practicing internists, family practitioners, advance practice providers, and all other health professionals interested in providing high quality primary care.

Stay Current with Essential Internal Medicine CME

The UCSF Advances in Internal Medicine online CME course provides an expert review of the most recent clinical advances and current controversies. Clinically active faculty emphasize topics of clinical relevance — cardiology, geriatrics, endocrinology, general internal medicine, women’s health, infectious diseases, gastroenterology, hematology and oncology, neurology, rheumatology, and pulmonary disease.

Designed for practicing internists, family practitioners, and other primary care health professionals, this internal medicine continuing medical education program will help you to:

• Better manage common medical conditions such as diabetes, osteoporosis, obstructive lung disease, and obesity
• Bring your practice in line with current evidence and updated guidelines for ischemic heart disease, vaccinations, sexually transmitted infections, contraception, and stroke prevention
• Manage problems traditionally treated by specialists and recognize indications for referral for conditions such as heart failure, cirrhosis, advanced lung disease, allergies, common neurologic diagnoses, and side effects of modern cancer therapy