Oakstone CME Courses

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.

Urology CME: Diagnostic Approaches, Therapeutic Advances

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 continuing medical education 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.
• Advances in Systemic Therapy for Management of Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy remains the standard of care for muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
• And many more!

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…

This activity meets the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) requirement that as of June 27, 2023, new or renewing DEA registrants must complete a minimum of 8 hours of accredited continuing education (CE) on the treatment and management of patients with opioid or other substance use disorders before renewing their license.

CME Guide to Gynecologic Pathology Advances

In this online CME program, you’ll encounter the latest discoveries and diagnostic challenges in gynecologic pathology, focusing on biopsies, resections, and gestational trophoblastic neoplasia. You’ll examine commonly encountered specimens such as endometrial and cervical biopsies, as well as the complex mesenchymal lesions that often pose diagnostic difficulties.

Organized by anatomic location and neoplasia subtypes, the Gynecologic Pathology course — part of our Masters of Pathology Series — will help you build a structured and practical approach to interpreting a wide range of gynecologic specimens. It’s continuing medical education that:

• Ensures you’re current with novel emerging diagnostic classification schemes and the newly developed endometrial staging system
• Previews the upcoming 6th edition of the WHO blue book, offering insight into key updates
• Demonstrates how to integrate a wide array of immunohistochemical stains and molecular assays alongside morphologic features in surgical pathology

Discover New Guidelines with Pathology CME

Gastropathology is an online CME course that combines traditional lectures and microscopy sessions to review recent concepts in esophagitis, gastritis, and dysplasia, as well as discussions of the small intestine, colon, and anus.

In addition to discussions on difficult and rapidly evolving areas in pathology, sessions in this continuing medical education program — part of our Masters of Pathology Series — address topics that will help you:

• Understand liver neoplasms and medical liver
• Define gastrointestinal and liver mesenchymal tumors
• Assess inflammatory esophagus biopsies, especially those with lymphocytosis
• Evaluate hepatic adenomas
• Recognize clues for separating reactive and neoplastic changes in esophageal and gastric samples

Learning Objectives

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

• Discuss the significance of esophageal lymphocytosis
• Use diagnostic clues to separate reactive and dysplastic changes in columnar biopsies from the esophagus and stomach
• Describe the features of autoimmune hepatitis and its differential diagnosis
• Recognize the key types of gastritis
• Describe several types of gastric polyps
• Discuss non-neoplastic small intestinal pathology
• Define HPV-associated anal neoplasms
• Understand the classification of hepatic neoplasms
• Recognize key GI tract mesenchymal neoplasms
• Describe key features of appendiceal neoplasms

Intended Audience

This educational activity was designed for pathologists and gastroenterologists in practice, pathology residents, and gastroenterology fellows.

In-depth CME Review of Gastrointestinal Diseases

Gastroenterology and Hepatology Board Review is an online video CME program covering normal function, signs, symptoms, and diseases of the gastrointestinal organs — from the esophagus and stomach to the small intestine, colon, liver, pancreas, and biliary tract.

This continuing medical education program includes 40+ one-hour lectures delivered by recognized experts with extensive clinical experience. You’ll benefit from the decision-making expertise of these skilled educators as they discuss diagnostic procedures, medical therapy, surgical therapy, and procedural therapy. Presentations combine scientific evidence and clinical judgment, culminating with recommendations for the most appropriate care and improved patient outcomes.

Cytopathology CME to Refine Diagnostic Skills

Take your diagnostic skills to the next level with this engaging, practice-focused online CME course. Cytopathology — part of our Masters of Pathology Series — reviews the latest updates to WHO reporting systems and explores how molecular testing and other ancillary studies are transforming the way small biopsy and cytopathology specimens are assessed.

Geared towards those who may not have formal training in cytopathology, the succinct, high-yield lectures in this continuing medical education program are divided by specimen type and will help you to:

• Gain a deeper understanding of how The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology has reduced unnecessary surgical interventions
• Consistently generate standardized reports that are more useful and better understood by clinicians
• Avoid common pitfalls like overinterpreting benign findings or relying too heavily on surgical pathology when results are discordant
• Confidently identify benign and reactive findings in cytopathology specimens
• And more…

Explore Emerging Trends with the Experts
Directed by Jeffrey Bennett, DMD and Elie Ferneini, MD, DMD, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery — A Comprehensive and Contemporary Update is an online CME program that delivers the latest insight on surgical decision-making, techniques, and evidence-based procedures.

In this broad and updated continuing medical education review, respected surgeons and teachers present 101 video lectures in 14 key areas. From anesthesia, pathology, and practice management, to reconstruction, trauma, esthetic surgery, and more, you’ll get continuing medical education designed to enhance your knowledge and improve patient safety.

Geriatric and Palliative Medicine CME: Learn the Latest Trends
Presented by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, this online CME program delivers a clinically-based, intensive board review taught by leading experts. It provides updates on geriatric syndromes and palliative medicine, along with the latest research and treatments. Continuing medical education topics covered by the Intensive Update with Board Review in Geriatric and Palliative Medicine are ideal for exam prep or earning MOC points and include:

• Specialized managed care models and integrative medicine
• Chronic disease prognostication
• Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
• Hospice and end-of-life symptoms
• Medical decision making and advance care planning
• Heart failure and cardiac disease
• Pediatrics
• And so much more…

Expert CME Review of Neurological Conditions

Neurology for Non-Neurologists is an updated collection of concise 30- to 45-minute video CME lectures presented by faculty who excel in their clinical and teaching expertise. It covers all clinical neurology subspecialties and includes 70 lectures on the common and uncommon neurological problems encountered in the non-neurologist’s practice.

This online continuing medical education program will improve your ability to positively impact the care of patients with neurological symptoms and help bring about the best possible outcomes. Along with lectures discussing innovations, disparities, and inclusivity of neurological care, highlighted topics include:

• Holistic care of the Parkinson’s patient
• Stroke recovery
• CGRP inhibitors and migraine treatment
• Electrolyte disorders
• Neuro-palliative care
• TBI diagnosis and treatment
• and more…

Pathology CME: Mastering Diagnosis of Neoplastic and Non-neoplastic Disorders

Dermatopathology: Masters of Pathology Series covers a large variety of topics related to both neoplastic and inflammatory dermatopathology. Presenters emphasize practical issues and diagnostic challenges, as well as new and emerging entities. Lectures in this online CME course are heavily illustrated, featuring thorough discussions of the diagnostic criteria, work-up, and differential diagnosis of challenging cases.

Through informative microscopy sessions and practical discussions, this dermatopathology continuing medical education program will reinforce your fundamental clinical knowledge and help you to:

• Render difficult diagnoses with more confidence
• Gain familiarity with ancillary tests
• Identify pitfalls, including the lack of relevant clinical information and sampling errors
• Recognize the wide morphologic spectrum of both inflammatory and neoplastic disorders

Pathology CME: Board Review and More

Expert speakers deliver a high-yield review of a comprehensive array of head-to-toe anatomic pathology topics in this continuing medical education program. They also delve into the nuts and bolts of running a multidisciplinary clinical pathology laboratory with support for highly specialized testing.

Need-to-Know Pathology: A Review for Physicians in a Hurry provides a thorough evaluation of pathologic features and in-depth work up, using a case-based format with high-quality images. It’s an online CME board review focused on important topics within each subspecialty of anatomic and clinical pathology, including:

• Dermatopathology and Breast Pathology
• Genitourinary and Gynecologic Pathology
• Cytopathology
• Soft Tissue and Bone Marrow Pathology
• Transfusion Medicine and Hematology
• Bacteriology, Mycology, Parasitology, and Virology
• and many more — over 100 sessions!

Pulmonary Medicine CME: Learn the Latest Advances

Speakers in this nationally acclaimed pulmonary medicine CME program deliver state-of-the-art information you can use. With The Brigham Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Pulmonary Medicine online CME course, you’ll learn how to employ optimal therapeutic strategies while reviewing the latest techniques for treating respiratory infections, lung diseases, interstitial disorders, vascular diseases, and more. It’s ideal for MOC and will help you to:

• Better understand clinical problems reflected in the ABIM pulmonary disease subspecialty board examination
• Effectively summarize major areas in pulmonary medicine, including respiratory physiology, genetics, and cell and molecular biology
• Competently evaluate pulmonary function testing, fundamental pulmonary imaging, and cardiopulmonary exercise testing

Rheumatology CME: Expand Your Knowledge

The Brigham Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Rheumatology is designed to improve overall knowledge and clinical competency with comprehensive updates on basic principles, changing guidelines and therapeutic strategies. In this convenient online CME program, world-renowned faculty — led by Jonathan S. Coblyn, MD, Paul F. Dellaripa, MD, and Simon M. Helfgott, MD — cover key rheumatologic medicine topic areas, including:

• Rheumatoid arthritis
• SLE and antiphospholipid AB syndrome
• Sjögren’s and MCTD
• Psoriatic arthritis and other spondyloarthropathies
• Regional pain/sports medicine
• Inflammatory myositis and other myopathies
• Infectious, rheumatologic, and systemic diseases
• and more…

Online Infectious Disease CME: Enhance Your Knowledge

The Brigham Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Infectious Diseases is an online video CME program focused on important practice improvement areas: management of HIV infection, immunizations, recent epidemics, infections in the immunocompromised host, antibiotic resistance, multi-resistant tuberculosis, treatment of sepsis, endocarditis, head and neck infections, and much more.

Directed by infectious disease master clinician James H. Maguire, MD, expert faculty present case-based lectures and in-depth discussions that shed light on the full range of issues related to infectious diseases, providing continuing medical education that will help you to:

• Identify clinical competence-based practice gaps and demonstrate increased overall knowledge
• Correlate pathophysiology and pathobiologic principles with clinical presentations
• Describe optimal therapeutic strategies and their risks and benefits
• Apply knowledge and strategies gained to the board exam and daily practice

Expert Online Endocrinology CME

The Brigham Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Endocrinology is an expert-led, case-based program designed to enhance your clinical knowledge and address competence-based gaps in endocrine disease management. Structured around ABIM certification and recertification requirements, this online CME course covers essential topics such as adrenal disorders, bone health, diabetes, obesity, thyroid conditions, and cardiovascular endocrinology.

Insightful continuing medical education lectures will strengthen your understanding of disease pathophysiology and help refine therapeutic strategies. You’ll gain keen insight that will improve clinical decision-making, enhance patient outcomes, and boost performance on exams.

Essential Hematology and Oncology CMEThe Brigham and Dana-Farber Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Hematology and Oncology is a case-based online video CME program focused on improving overall knowledge and clinical competency with comprehensive updates on basic principles, changing guidelines, and therapeutic strategies. Continuing medical education areas for practice improvement include:

• Hematopoiesis and Cytokines
• Platelet Disorders
• Molecular Basis of Cancer
• New Therapies (Pharmacology)
• Palliative Care (Management of Symptoms/End of Life)
• Gastrointestinal Cancers (Neuroendocrine/Esophageal/Pancreas/Colorectal)
• Thoracic Oncology (Head/Neck/Lung/Thyroid)
• and many more…

Led by top-notch faculty, The Brigham Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Cardiology offers case-based lectures on a wide range of critical continuing medical education topics: coronary and peripheral artery disease, heart failure, cardiovascular disease prevention, hypertension, obesity, non-invasive testing, pericardial disease, valvular heart disease, atrial fibrillation, and more.

You get practical updates on the latest guidelines, therapeutic strategies, and pathophysiological insights — all designed to help you improve patient care and deepen your clinical acumen. You can confidently use this online CME program to stay current, earn credits, and prep for your ABIM certification or recertification exam.

Expert Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine CME

Designed to help you establish a strong foundation in both performance and interpretation of vascular ultrasound, this online CME program was developed in conjunction with the medical and technical directors of the vascular labs at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as esteemed faculty from Stanford University Hospital, University of Colorado, and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The Clinical Approach to Vascular Ultrasound and RPVI Prep Course delivers practical examples and case presentations that will enhance your ability to apply knowledge in patient situations. Online continuing medical education lecture topics include:

• Fundamental lower extremity physiologic and imaging studies used to diagnose and treat peripheral artery disease
• Normal and abnormal anatomy and imaging of the subclavian and vertebral arteries
• Techniques and indications used to predict impending bypass graft failure
• General overview for diagnosing and characterizing deep vein thrombosis, pelvic congestions syndrome, May-Thurner syndrome and venous thoracic outlet syndrome
• Dynamic TCD studies and their resulting surgical interventions and follow-ups
• and more…