Oakstone CME Courses

Musculoskeletal Imaging CME: State-of-the-Art Updates

NYU Langone Advanced Imaging of the Musculoskeletal System: Up Your Game is a comprehensive and intensive series of online CME lectures covering major topics, including common sports injuries, bone tumors, arthritis and cartilage imaging, pediatric imaging, and AI. You can explore new advances in MR, CT, and US, and update skills with continuing medical education that will help you to:  

• Improve therapeutic decision making by learning how to modify imaging techniques and protocols for all areas of musculoskeletal MRI
• Develop a working differential for bone and soft tissue tumors and know when additional imaging or tissue sampling is warranted
• Evaluate the use of imaging in diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory arthritides and common musculoskeletal infections
• Describe techniques that improve MR imaging in the presence of hardware, as well as areas of pathology that can be diagnosed post hip, knee, or shoulder arthroplasty

State-of-the-Art Diagnostic Pathology CME

You’ll gain knowledge, confidence, and experience through this unique series of online video CME lectures highlighting the integration of small biopsies, a common component of the typical FNAB procedure. Expert faculty from Harvard Medical School’s three academic centers — many of whom are leaders in the field — deliver a comprehensive tutorial on the current state of the art in cytology. Harvard Advances in Cytology and Small Biopsies continuing medical education topics including:

• Advances in automation and standardized terminology
• “Challenging Cases and Lessons Learned” case-based virtual microscopy sessions
• Urinary cytopathology and changes to The Paris System 2.0 last updated in 2022
• The role of the cytopathologist in diagnosis using minimally invasive techniques
• Updates on utilizing ancillary testing for diagnosis, prognosis, and targeted therapy
• And more!

CME Insights for Emergency Medical and Trauma Care

UCSF High Risk Emergency Medicine is sharply focused on meeting the needs of the practitioner who encounters high-risk conditions in their daily practice. It’s continuing medical education designed to address topic that — due to risk of misdiagnosis or misadventure — produce the greatest anxiety and concern for anyone practicing in an urgent care, high-risk, or ED setting.

Through 33 online video CME lectures, you’re sure to gain competence in diagnosis, treatment, procedures, and patient counseling while you expand your knowledge of traumatic, cardiologic, neurologic, toxicologic, pediatric, and airway emergencies — and much more.

Psychiatry Board Review: CME from the Experts

This in-depth, clinically up-to-date online CME program emphasizes assessment and diagnosis of psychiatric disorders for adult, adolescent, and child patients. Psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and other forms of treatment, including interventional are covered, along with special topics germane to all psychiatric practices.

Speakers experienced in both clinical care and teaching discuss high-quality patient care, ethical standards, sensitivity and compassion, patient-centered treatment, and health equity.

Enhance Your Knowledge with Online Radiology CME

Led by University of Washington’s Jason Hartman, MD and Jihoon Lim, MD, expert faculty focus on the latest imaging methodologies and diagnostic techniques. This online radiology CME course offers comprehensive presentations and Q&A sessions covering the broad range of emergency imaging — from epidemiology and mechanisms of trauma, to an integrated approach to injuries of the head, neck, spine, torso, pelvis, and appendicular skeleton. It’s continuing medical education that will help improve overall patient care as you learn to:

• optimize imaging protocols
• incorporate standardized classification systems
• implement updated approaches to management
• make appropriate recommendations for incidental findings
• and more…

Radiology CME: Standard Protocols and More

Experienced and knowledgeable faculty discuss the fundamentals and pitfalls of state-of-the-art imaging in this online video CME program. UCSF Imaging: Core and Extremities delivers a practical review of routine GI, GU, and ObGyn presentations of the abdomen and pelvis, as well as the diagnosis of routine and incidental findings in the lungs and chest cavity.

Short, focused continuing medical education sessions cover diagnosis in imaging of the brain, spine, and major joints in the musculoskeletal system, standard protocols for each organ system, and appropriate imaging technique and use of CT, MR, and US.

Primary Care CME: Integrating Medical and Psychiatric Care

Increasingly, primary care practitioners are tasked with diagnosing and treating not only common but also complex and chronic psychiatric disorders. This online CME program will equip you with the knowledge to confidently diagnose and manage prevalent mental health conditions and associated comorbidities like cardiovascular disease, arthritis, and diabetes.

Focused on evidence-based pharmacological interventions and the most recent advancements in the field, Psychopharmacology for Primary Care Physicians will prepare you to handle behavioral and emotional health problems in your day-to-day practice. Delve into a range of continuing medical education topics, including:

• Treatment of depression and bipolar disorder
• Suicide in primary care settings
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• OCD and panic disorder
• Sleep disorder
• Alcohol and substance use disorder
• ADHD
• Mood disorders in pregnancy and postpartum
• Digital technologies
• Child, adolescent, and geriatric psychopharmacology
• When, why, and how to consult psychiatry

Practical, Results-Focused CME

Throughout the online video CME program Optimizing Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care, recognized experts share strategies and best practices that can be readily implemented by pediatric, family medicine, internal medicine, or subspecialty providers as they tailor patient transfer plans based on age, disease type, and physical/intellectual capabilities.

This in-depth continuing medical education course includes case-based lectures on chronic conditions like diabetes, cystic fibrosis, congenital heart disease, epilepsy, cancer survivorship, organ transplantation, substance use disorder, etc. Along with assessing patient readiness and timing transitions for the best outcome, you’ll learn to optimize how you:

• Ensure adherence, teach self-care, and help patients maximize independence
• Promote medical and educational self-advocacy
• Address sexual health and fertility with young adults
• Strengthen family engagement
• Provide care for college students
• Screen for high-risk behaviors

Target Audience

This activity was designed for physicians, NPs, and PAs in: pediatrics, internal medicine, family medicine, medicine-pediatrics, pediatric subspecialties, medical specialties and subspecialties; and psychologists, social workers, and counselors who support young adults and their families.

CME Focused on Soft Tissue Diagnostics

This online CME course offers an in-depth, case-based exploration of soft tissue pathology—from benign lesions and reactive mimics to high-grade sarcomas. Renowned faculty preview a wide range of real-world cases and provide practical strategies for navigating common diagnostic challenges.

Through the Cleveland Clinic Comprehensive and Immersive Soft Tissue Pathology continuing medical education course, you’ll develop skills and tools to triage and work up mesenchymal lesions while strengthening your use of immunohistochemistry, molecular tools, and radiologic studies in soft tissue tumor diagnosis. You’ll be better equipped to:

• Identify common and rare soft tissue tumors
• Recognize diagnostic pitfalls
• Develop a systematic diagnostic approach
• Integrate ancillary testing in clinical workflows

This online CME course — created by the established leader in perioperative medicine specifically for clinicians who provide patient care before, during, and after surgery — delivers current and concise knowledge ideally suited to improving patient outcomes through perioperative evaluation, intraoperative management, and postoperative care.

Perioperative Management is based on an examination of evidence-based, peer-reviewed literature, recent research, course participant feedback, and input from colleagues inside and outside Johns Hopkins. Speakers deliver the most up-to-date knowledge in a series of 50 expert continuing medical education lectures and eight informative Q&A sessions.

Comprehensive CME for Today’s Primary Care Physician

Enhance your clinical expertise and elevate your practice with this comprehensive online CME course. Primary Care Essentials: Core Curriculum for Ambulatory Practice will help you strengthen your skills in preventive medicine, cardiovascular risk management, chronic disease care, and effective communication—all while deepening your understanding of health equity and the care of vulnerable populations.

Through expert-led lectures and case discussions, you’ll gain practical strategies for optimizing diagnostic testing, applying new medications, and collaborating across specialties and healthcare teams in the care of complex patients. Beyond common clinical challenges, you’ll explore focused updates in dermatology, women’s health, clinical nutrition, neurology, oncology, and infectious diseases.

Chaired by Dr. Robert B. Baron and featuring outstanding UCSF faculty, this continuing medical education course offers the tools and insights you need to maximize quality, safety, equity, and value.

In-Depth Vascular Surgery Board Prep CME

Whether you’re preparing for your board exam or building a foundation as a resident or fellow, this comprehensive continuing medical education course delivers an expert-led exploration of the four major pillars of vascular surgery—conventional open operations, catheter-based endovascular interventions, medical management, and diagnostic imaging and noninvasive testing.

The Comprehensive Review an Update of What’s New in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery online CME program features internationally recognized faculty who review current standards in basic science, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of vascular disorders. Speakers highlight the most important developments and recent advances related to their topic, ensuring that you are in-the-know.