Lab Medicine CME

Key Topics in Pathology CME

Pathology Board Review, an online CME course, presents a comprehensive array of pathology topics, from head to toe in anatomic pathology, to the nuts and bolts of running a multidisciplinary clinical pathology laboratory with support for highly specialized testing. It’s continuing medical education that will guide you in applying relevant concepts to the pathology boards examination, and help you to better:

• Define high-yield concepts within anatomic pathology, including neoplasm recognition and subclassification
• Discuss mesenchymal and hematopoietic neoplasms
• Explain basic concepts in placental pathology
• Describe laboratory management concepts and their use with transfusion medicine, blood banking, chemistry, immunology, microbiology, cytogenetics, and more

Learning Objectives

After viewing this program, the participant will be better able to:

• List high yield concepts within anatomic pathology, including recognition and subclassification of neoplasms of the breast, skin, gastrointestinal tract, hepatobiliary tract, soft tissue, bone, head and neck, heart, lung, kidney, male and female reproductive tracts, and brain
• Discuss mesenchymal and hematopoietic neoplasms, including those involving children
• Explain basic concepts in placental pathology, with a focus on high yield material for the boards examination
• Describe concepts of laboratory management and explain their utilization in health care, specifically with transfusion medicine/blood baking, chemistry, hematology (including hemoglobinopathies), coagulation, immunology, microbiology (including bacteriology, virology, parasitology), and molecular techniques ranging from cytogenetics to next generation sequencing

Target Audience

This course is designed for pathology residents/fellows preparing for their specialty examinations, as well as practicing pathologists who wish to fulfill MOC (CME and SAM) requirements, prepare for recertification, or update their knowledge in general.

The BoardVitals Pathology CME Review offers clinicians 60 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM, 60 SAM Credits, and over 950 Pathology board review questions. The questions cover key topics including lab management, blood banking, and molecular pathology. This question bank will assist clinicians with Pathology certification and recertification.

The BoardVitals Pathology CME Review also features:

• Quick and Convenient CME
• Computer, phone, and tablet access
• Constantly updated up-to-date questions
• Questions that are targeted specifically to the exam
• Online CME tracker
• 100% Pass Guarantee
• Statistical comparison to other Pathology test-takers (Nationally)

After completing this activity, you should be able to:

• Determine an accurate histological diagnosis
• Determine appropriate interpretation as well as limitations for a variety of laboratory tests
• Identify common pitfalls encountered while making a pathological diagnosis

Target Audience: Pathologists

The BoardVitals Pathology ABP Recertification Practice Test contains over 1100 Pathology MOC practice questions specifically targeted to the ABPath 10-year exam. The pathology maintenance of certification qbank offers 470 CP questions and over 400 AP questions.

The BoardVitals Pathology ABP Recertification Practice Test offers:
• Peer reviewed content
• Pathology MOC Multiple Choice Questions, answers, and detailed explanations
• Take practice tests in review mode or timed mode
• Compare yourself to other practicing Pathologists and predict your performance on the exam

Target Audience:
Pathologists preparing for the Maintenance of Certification exam.

The Osler Pathology Board Reviews offer learning in a variety of venues and formats.

Topics include all major areas of Pathology. This course has an optional day of glass-slides before and after the seven-day seminar. The first four days are anatomic pathology which overlaps, by one day, the last four days of clinical pathology.

The Osler Pathology Course on 8 MP3 CDs w/Electronic Syllabus.
Each CD includes a full days’ lectures from the most recent live meeting in MP3 format which you can play on your MP3 player, computer or CD player.

The Osler Pathology Course on Creative MP3 Player Preloaded with the Course Review Audio MP3s.
The player contains selected lectures from the most recent live meeting.

Target Audience: Pathologists

CME activities of special interest to pathologists. 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: Pathologists