Oakstone CME Courses

Online Dermatology CME and Board Prep

Oakstone CME’s Comprehensive Review of Dermatology focuses on general dermatology topics, including basic science, basement membrane biology, dermatological manifestations of internal disease, hair and nail biology/disorders, skin cancer, pediatric dermatology, and drug metabolism.

Dr. Yasmine Kirkorian and expert faculty provide a comprehensive regimen, covering the entire spectrum of board-relevant dermatology topics with high-yield, 30-minute lectures. This continuing medical education program will help you to:

• Diagnose the 150 conditions identified by the ABD for the General Dermatology module of the Maintenance of Certification in Dermatology (MOC-D) exam
• Evaluate and diagnose dermatologic and dermapathologic lesions and entities
• Identify areas needing additional study in preparation for the certifying or recertification exam
• Expand your scope of knowledge in basic and clinical dermatological science

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Enhance Your Knowledge with Online General Surgery CME

Comprehensive Review of General Surgery provides guidance for preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management, as well as management of complications. Led by Pardon R. Kenney, MD, clinically-skilled speakers offer direction in selecting operative techniques, outlining the advantages and disadvantages of both open and minimally invasive surgery.

Lectures in this continuing medical education board review cover a broad range of surgical areas (vascular, breast, abdominal, alimentary tract, trauma, etc.) and reinforce important take-home points, including:

• Critical Care. Operative necrosectomy should be the last procedure offered to a patient with necrotizing pancreatitis. Exhaust all other options (percutaneous drainage, endoscopic drainage,  video-assisted retroperitoneal debridement) before offering open pancreatic necrosectomy.
• Ethics. Palliative care is not restricted to care at the end of life or for the imminently dying. It’s an focused on improving quality of life that’s appropriate at any stage of serious illness.
• Gynecologic Challenges. Unlike most general surgical procedures, gynecologic surgeries often require fertility considerations before determining the best course of action.
• Tumor Biology. Solid tumors are associated with mutations in proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressors. These mutations disrupt known signaling pathways that are required for normal cellular and immune homeostasis, and often promote a more aggressive tumor behavior. These genetic mutations may be useful therapeutic targets.
• And more!

Discover New Guidelines with Online CME

This online CME program — tailored to anesthesiologists who care for patients of all ages in ambulatory and inpatient settings — provides a general review of common pediatric anesthesia challenges, as well as clinical pearls and procedure-specific considerations for the young patient.

Led by University of Minnesota’s Jakob Guenther, MD, expert speakers in Pediatric Anesthesia for General Anesthesiologists discuss physiology, pharmacology, preoperative/postoperative considerations, congenital heart defects, pain control, airway management, and more.

Additional continuing medical education lectures focus on frequent procedures and anesthetic challenges associated with specific specialties (ENT, dental, neurosurgery, urology, orthopedics, etc)

Learning Objectives

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

• Have a better overview about the differences in physiology, pharmacology and anatomy between adult and pediatric patients including more recent data and evidence for your daily practice, both for basic techniques of pediatric anesthesia, as well as procedure specific strategies
• Approach pediatric patients with a focus on their specific needs in the preoperative (anxiety, agitation), intraoperative (physiology, fluid requirements, airway management) and postoperative (emergence, PO(N)V, airway complication) setting
• Have guidance how to optimize anesthetic technique for common procedures and conditions
• Have more background information about invasive and complex procedures, conditions (congenital heart disease) and interventions. Those procedures may not be part of your practice, but that the patient either went through them or will have to go through them in the future. Both past and future interventions may have implications on how to approach the patient’s anesthetic management while the patient is under your care

Intended Audience

This activity is designed for anesthesiology residents, pediatric anesthesia fellows, and general anesthesiologists.

Family Medicine CME: Get the Latest Guidelines

Our online video CM program Comprehensive Review of Family Medicine is an evidence-based, guideline-driven look at a variety of conditions and problems. It’s a clinical how-to focused on a practical and holistic approach to the biological, psychological, and social needs of a patient’s immediate care, as well as ideal outcomes and long-term health.

Experts from all over the U.S. share practical advice not limited by age, organ system, problem, or care setting. Highlights among the 84 continuing medical education lectures include:

• Diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation
• Metabolic-associated steatotic liver disease
• Injections in the office
• Dermatologic conditions in skin of color
• Lifestyle medicine
• Social determinants of health
• Geriatric medications
• Cancer screening update
• Immunization updates for adults and children
• Diets and medications for weight loss

Pain Medicine CME from the Experts

The Comprehensive Review of Pain Medicine online CME program addresses the challenge of effective, safe, and timely relief of acute or chronic pain with in-depth insights into evolving viewpoints of opioid analgesics, pain practice management, clinical updates, advances in pain physiology, spine technology, and neuromodulation.

Multidisciplinary speakers are experienced clinicians and teachers who offer not only practical recommendations, but also ways to integrate empathy and an understanding of the mechanism of pain. The sessions in this continuing medical education course highlight both existing and emerging evidence-based clinical strategies in the behavioral, pharmacological, and physical sciences. Key take-home points include:

• Limiting the Opioid Supply – Are Our Communities Safer?
• Psychotherapies for Pain – Underused But Effective
• Opioids and Perioperative Pain Management – A Reassessment
• Neuromodulation – Moving Past the Epidural Space
• Appropriate Prescribing and the Pharmacist’s Obligation.
• Restorative Neurostimulation for Refractory, Mechanical, Nociceptive Chronic Low Back Pain
• And more…

Discover the Latest in Neurology CME

The Samuels Comprehensive Review of Neurology includes 65 one-hour lectures and offers a broad, evidence-based look at common and uncommonly seen disorders, as well as best practices in diagnosis and management. Authoritative and clinically experienced faculty share pearls, pitfalls, and practical continuing medical education updates.

Named for the late Dr. Marty Samuels, long-time Oakstone CME contributor, beloved educator, inspirational mentor, and legend in the field of neurology, this online video CME program provides important strategies — including judicious use of imaging and lab testing — that will help you treat patients with neurological disorders and achieve the best clinical outcomes.

Discover New Guidelines with Online CME

This online CME program — tailored to anesthesiologists who care for patients of all ages in ambulatory and inpatient settings — provides a general review of common pediatric anesthesia challenges, as well as clinical pearls and procedure-specific considerations for the young patient.

Led by University of Minnesota’s Jakob Guenther, MD, expert speakers in Pediatric Anesthesia for General Anesthesiologists discuss physiology, pharmacology, preoperative/postoperative considerations, congenital heart defects, pain control, airway management, and more.

Additional continuing medical education lectures focus on frequent procedures and anesthetic challenges associated with specific specialties (ENT, dental, neurosurgery, urology, orthopedics, etc).

Learning Objectives

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

• Have a better overview about the differences in physiology, pharmacology and anatomy between adult and pediatric patients including more recent data and evidence for your daily practice, both for basic techniques of pediatric anesthesia, as well as procedure specific strategies
• Approach pediatric patients with a focus on their specific needs in the preoperative (anxiety, agitation), intraoperative (physiology, fluid requirements, airway management) and postoperative (emergence, PO(N)V, airway complication) setting
• Have guidance how to optimize anesthetic technique for common procedures and conditions
• Have more background information about invasive and complex procedures, conditions (congenital heart disease) and interventions. Those procedures may not be part of your practice, but that the patient either went through them or will have to go through them in the future. Both past and future interventions may have implications on how to approach the patient’s anesthetic management while the patient is under your care

Intended Audience

This activity is designed for anesthesiology residents, pediatric anesthesia fellows, and general anesthesiologists.

Continuing Medical Education: Advances in Urology

Comprehensive Review of Urology provides current, relevant information on adult and pediatric disorders of the male and female urinary tract, the male reproductive system, and the kidney. Led by renowned urologist Aria F. Olumi, MD, lecturers use guideline-driven information that will improve your approach to screening, staging, diagnosis, and treatment. You’ll get expert take-home points from each lecture, including:

• MRI of Prostate Cancer. MRI is effective in detecting focal areas of highgrade prostate cancer, providing accurate locoregional staging, and guiding targeted biopsies.
• Kidney Cancer – Laparoscopic Management. Laparoscopic and robotic nephrectomy is now the standard care for most renal cell carcinoma patients. It offers significant advantages in morbidity while maintaining oncologic outcomes of open surgery.
• The Etiology and Treatment of Pelvic Organ Prolapse. Vaginal wall descent is a normal part of aging; however, once the bulge protrudes past the hymen, most women are symptomatic.
• Surgical Management of Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer. Surgical management of high-risk bladder cancer is a central component of definitive treatment. Wide resection of the bladder/perivesical tissues and control of the regional pelvic lymph nodes are key surgical tenets.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this CME activity, you will be better able to:

• Discuss appropriate imaging for disorders of the prostate
• Explain the therapeutic approaches to recurrent urinary tract infections
• Describe office care and surgical approaches for transgender patients
• Define the diagnostic approach to a patient suspected of having penile cancer
• Explain the initial surgical approach to a patient with bladder trauma
• Distinguish between medical and surgical management of urinary lithiasis
• Compare the advantages of open surgical management and laparoscopic management for kidney cancer
• Differentiate which patients are appropriate for surgical management of urinary continence and which are appropriate for medical management
• Identify the best patient population for active surveillance of prostate cancer
• Explain the causes of urinary tract infections in children
• Summarize the neurogenic bladder issues in the adult spina bifida patient

Intended Audience

The activity was designed to provide urologists, urology fellows and residents, surgery residents interested in urology, other licensed individual practitioners or ancillary staff interested in urology, or who participate in the delivery of urologic care with current, relevant, and condensed information needed to pass certification and recertification exams.

Enhance Inpatient Care with Online Hospital Medicine CME

Led by Robert M. Wachter, MD, UCSF’s top teachers and selected guest faculty deliver a focused review of the clinical issues most relevant to hospitalists and those who care for inpatients — broad content in critical care, perioperative care, radiology, hospital neurology, cardiology, GI, diabetes, hematology, oncology, nephrology, infectious diseases, and more.

Management of the Hospitalized Patient is an online CME course aimed at enhancing your diagnostic and management skills, while highlighting recent advances and current controversies. Continuing medical education topics include:

• Pearls in palliative care and cardiology
• Tough cases and controversies in medical consultation
• Patient management with kidney failure, liver disease, cancer, stroke, etc.
• Neurological emergencies
• And more…

Lung Pathology CME from the Experts

Through engaging lectures, case studies, and virtual microscopy sessions, Masters of Pathology Series – Lung Pathology continuing medical education helps build and translate knowledge into realistic diagnostic scenarios. Course Director Lynette M. Sholl, MD, and her colleagues deliver in-depth coverage of topics like granulomatous diseases, vasculitis, multiple lung tumors, lung transplant pathology, pulmonary vascular pathology, benign mimics of lung cancer, and more. This online CME course will help you to better:

• Recognize common, uncommon mediastinal tumors including thymic neoplasms
• Interpret the clinical implications of specific carcinoma diagnoses
• Identify effective diagnostic and predictive biomarkers for NSCLC diagnosis
• Differentiate between reactive and neoplastic proliferations of the lung and pleura
• Understand the relevance of IHC, FISH, molecular tests for diagnosing malignant mesothelioma
• Define appropriate biomarkers to select lung cancer patients for immunotherapy

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, the participant will be able to do the following:

• Identify the pathologic and immunohistochemical features of common lung carcinomas and understand the clinical implications of specific carcinoma diagnoses
• Identify the crucial diagnostic and predictive biomarkers for non-small cell lung carcinomas and understand how to apply them in clinical practice
• Define appropriate biomarkers for selection of lung cancer patients for immunotherapy
• Distinguish between reactive and neoplastic proliferations of the lung and pleura
• Classify correctly primary and metastatic mimics of non-small cell lung carcinomas
• Recognize common and uncommon mediastinal tumors including thymic neoplasms
• Recognize clinically significant interstitial changes in the lung in patients with and without prospectively recognized clinical and radiographic correlates

Intended Audience

This educational activity was designed for practicing pathologists, oncologists, pulmonologists, and pathology assistants.