Internal Medicine CME

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

The Online Edition of Scientific American Medicine offers “the latest evidence and … recommendations on diagnosis and treatment from over 200 of the world’s leading specialists.”

Its chapters cover eleven major subspecialties of internal medicine; women’s health; geriatrics; palliative medicine; psychology; dermatology; and neurology. A subscription to

Target Audience: Physicians specializing in Internal 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

The major focus of this site is Global Health.

Examples of modules include:
• Module 1: Introduction to Health Care for Immigrant and Refugee Populations
• Module 2: Disaster Response and Clinical Medicine in Resource-Limited Settings
• Module 3: Public Health and Noninfectious Disease in Developing Countries
• Module 4: Parasitic Infections
• Module 5: Bacterial, Mycobacterial (TB), and Fungal Infections
• Module 6: Viral Infections
• Module 7: Travel Medicine

You will also find 2 courses unrelated to global health:
• Nitrous Oxide for Pediatric Procedural Sedation
• FASD: Early Identification and Intervention in the Primary Care Setting

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