Neurology CME

Neurosurgery CME from the Experts

This online CME program is broad and deep in its coverage of neurosurgery subspecialty areas. Led by Ian F. Dunn, MD, FAANS, authoritative speakers with extensive subspecialty training present the latest technical innovations and surgical techniques, along with pearls and pitfalls from their own clinical practices. Neurosurgery – A Comprehensive Review delivers key take-home points with each lecture, including:

• Vascular Malformations. Intracranial vascular malformations are best treated with multimodality therapy, including microsurgery, embolization, and stereotactic radiosurgery in different combinations.
• Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Modern management of traumatic brain injury involves improving outcomes via minimizing secondary injury.
• Cervical Spine Trauma. The need for surgical stabilization after cervical trauma depends on the extent of bony, discoligamentous, and neurologic compromise.
• Brachial Plexus Lesions. Nerve transfers have a role in reconstructing function in brachial plexus injuries.
• Meningiomas. Threat of recurrence is directly related to the extent of surgical removal.
• And more…

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Differentiate among intracranial aneurysms by etiology
• Decide on when and how to treat arteriovenous malformations
• Describe the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative considerations in skull base surgery
• List the complications possible in frontal sinus surgery
• Differentiate among benign, malignant, intraneural, and extraneural peripheral nerve tumors
• Explain the ideal circumstances for resection of meningiomas
• Compare Type I, Type II, Type III, and Type IV classifications of nerve sheath tumors
• Identify the possible causes of hydrocephalus
• Describe the classic presentation and symptoms of craniopharyngioma
• Name the benefits of minimally invasive surgery over open surgery for disc herniation

Intended Audience

This educational activity was designed for neurosurgeons in practice, neurosurgery fellows, residents, nurse practitioners and physician assistants working in neurosurgery.

Explore the Latest in Neurology CME

Improve knowledge, competence, and performance with presentations that thoroughly and broadly cover all areas of neurology. Learn about atypical forms of commonly seen disorders and the presentation of complicated signs and symptoms. Get guidance regarding judicious use of imaging and laboratory testing, along with clinical pearls about interpretation of these tests.

With each of the 55+ one-hour lectures in the Comprehensive Review of Neurology online CME program, you’ll get expert take-home points, including:

• Neuromuscular Ultrasound. Neuromuscular ultrasound is a rapidly developing, high value technology that is enhancing the field of neuromuscular disorders as an essential adjunct to electrodiagnostic testing.
• Back and Neck Pain. While pain radiating to the extremities is often caused by nerve root compression, axial spine pain is generally caused by musculoskeletal causes rather than nerve compression..
• Voodoo Death Revisited – The Modern Lessons of Neurocardiology. Catecholamines from a sympathetic storm can alter the electrocardiogram and damage the cardiac muscle.
• Neurological Complications of Checkpoint Inhibitors and CAR-T Therapies. Prompt recognition and treatment of neurologic problems that arise in patients receiving checkpoint inhibitor therapy or chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy is improving outcomes.
• And many more!

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Explore SUD Topics with Online CME

Addiction Medicine for Non-Specialists is a case-based CME course designed to guide non-specialists in recognition, evaluation, treatment, and follow-up of patients with substance use disorders. Led by Antoine Douaihy, MD, experienced practitioners cover substances used — alcohol, opioids, stimulants, benzodiazepines, tobacco/nicotine, cannabis — and outline how the non-specialist can help their patient stop using drugs, maintain a drug-free lifestyle, and function in family and in society. Treatment strategies discussed include pharmacological, cognitive-behavioral, and a combination of the two.

Your MDCalc CME subscription includes 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, with up to 10.5 credits available in the Stroke specialty.

Easily earn and redeem CME as you use review CME eligible calculator content. Over 1 million medical professionals use MDCalc’s over 550 tools daily to support clinical decision making at the bedside. Earn CME with the following Stroke calculators:

• FUNC Score
• ASTRAL Score
• ATRIA Bleeding Risk
• HEMORR₂HAGES Score
• Hunt & Hess Classification
• Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) Score
• MEWS Score
• mSOAR Score
• NEWS Score
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
• RACE Scale
• SEDAN Score
• tPA Dosing for Stroke Calculator

Comprehensive Online CME: Expert Advice and Guidance

This online CME course is designed to help non-neurologists stay abreast of the vast field of clinical neurology, better diagnose and manage their patients, and make appropriate referrals. The 60+ lectures in Neurology for Non-Neurologists cover both common and uncommon neurological disorders.

Speakers — chosen for their clinical expertise and experience educating non-neurologists — cover all areas of clinical neurology in practical, focused 30-minute continuing medical education lectures. You’ll benefit from their expert advice, clinical guidance, and valuable take-home points, including:

• Numbness and Spells. The key to assessing spells is to determine whether the spells are fast (seconds), suggesting seizures, or TIA or slow (minutes), which suggest migraine.
• Gait Disorders. Testing gait is a very sensitive but not specific test of neurologic function.
• Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders. The diagnostic criteria for essential tremor have been updated to include bilateral action tremor of the upper limbs of at least 3 years’ duration, with or without head, voice, or leg tremor.
• Neuropathy: What You Should Know. Peripheral neuropathy is not one disease. Your first step in patient work up of a patient with suspected neuropathy is to characterize its phenotype so you can better tailor your management.
• and many more…

ScientiaCME Neuropsychiatry – Neurology contains 2 lectures:

• Highlights from the 2014 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting: Take-Aways, Emerging Practice Changes, and Barriers to their Implementation in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (1 hr CME)
• Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in a Primary Care Setting: Employing Strategies for Appropriate Diagnosis and Improved Patient Outcomes (1 hr CME)

Target Audience: Neurologists

Target Audience: Neurologists

Emergency Stroke Care, a practical, evidence-based stroke care resource reviews the latest research, recommendations, and opportunities in the diagnosis and management of stroke. Emergency clinicians are on the front lines of stroke care every day, and with the breathtaking speed of progress in diagnosis and management of this disease, you need to know how to manage patients according to the latest and best evidence.

Emergency Stroke Care includes:
• 70 pages of evidence-based content, covering management of TIA and acute ischemic stroke
• 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits that are stroke specific
• A review of the most recent evidence in TIA and acute ischemic stroke care
• Summaries of the evidence
• Treatment recommendations to help you optimally manage stroke patients

Target Audiences:
Emergency Medicine Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Residents.

The Osler Live Neurology Recertification Review is a 3-day course designed to help you pass your Neurology board exams as well as to update your clinical knowledge base.

Topics covered in the Osler Live Neurology Recertification Review include:
Pediatric Neurology, Developmental Disorders, Brain Tumors, Myopathies, Neuromuscular Junction, Dementia, Aphasia, Cerebral Spinal Fluid, Epilepsy, Sleep Disorders, Focal Neuropathies, Peripheral Neuropathies, Spinal Cord Compression, Movement Disorders and many others.

See the date and location of the next live Osler Live Neurology Recertification Review.

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a chronic, acquired, autoimmune disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system. Symptoms of CIDP include progressive limb weakness, usually with a predilection for proximal muscles, and sensory loss and are monophasic and progress for 8 weeks or more.

After viewing Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), you will be able to:
• Describe the pathophysiology of CIDP such that it might inform treatment mechanisms
• Identify the currently available and emerging pharmacotherapeutic treatments for management of CIDP and apply them to patient cases using evidence-based medicine
• Modify an existing treatment plan for a specific patient with CIDP to optimize safety and efficacy following non-response to therapy
• Describe non-pharmacological options to manage CIDP

Target Audience:
Healthcare professionals specializing in: neurology, internal medicine; nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and pharmacists who specialize in neurology; and those who otherwise commonly care for or clinically encounter patients with CIDP.