Oakstone CME Courses

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

Get Expert Insights with Online Endocrinology CME

In this convenient online video CME program, faculty cover key clinical subspecialty topics — adrenal, bone health and osteoporosis, cardiovascular endocrinology, diabetes, obesity, thyroid — in case-based discussions that will help improve competence and performance on board review and recertification exams, along with helping to enhance patient outcomes.

The Brigham Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Endocrinology is continuing medical education that will help you to:

• Increase your overall knowledge of endocrine diseases
• Identify and improve knowledge on clinical competence-based practice gaps
• Correlate pathophysiology and pathobiologic principles with clinical presentations
• Describe optimal therapeutic strategies, as well as their risks and benefits
• Apply new knowledge and strategies to the board exam and in daily practice

Elevate Your Hematology and Oncology CME

The Brigham and Dana-Farber Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Hematology and Oncology is a case-based online CME course focused on improving overall knowledge and clinical competency. Prep for your board exam and stay current on basic principles, changing guidelines and therapeutic strategies. Practice improvement areas featured in the continuing medical education program include:

• Acquired/Congenital Bone Marrow Failure
• Thalassemia/Hemoglobinopathies
• Transfusion Medicine
• New Therapies (Pharmacology)
• Infections of the Immunocompromised
• Hematologic Malignancies (Acute/Chronic Leukemias; Myeloma/Lymphomas)
• Thoracic Oncology (Head/Neck/Lung/Thyroid)
• and many more…

Elevate Your Hematology CME

The Brigham and Dana-Farber Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Hematology online CME program brings together a distinguished group of experts to present current diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. Enhance patient care and prep for your board exam with topics like molecular genetics, leukemia, bone marrow failures, transfusion medicine, and more. It’s continuing medical education that will help you to better:

• Apply current/recommended hematology guidelines in clinical practice
• Perform differential diagnosis of complex hematologic disorders
• Identify and apply current therapeutic options for hematologic disorders
• Evaluate and interpret up-to-date literature relevant to clinical practice in hematology
• Illustrate knowledge of pathophysiology of hematology disorders
• Apply knowledge gained to the ABIM certification/recertification

This program is also available as part of the combined Brigham and Dana-Farber Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Hematology and Oncology CME course found here.

Comprehensive, Current Cardiology CME Review

The Brigham Board Review and Comprehensive Update in Cardiology includes case-based lectures and in-depth discussions from cardiology experts, updated to current guidelines in clinical practice.

This online CME program is a thorough review of the core concepts and emerging trends in the field of cardiology, covering a wide range of topics: coronary and peripheral artery disease, heart failure, cardiovascular disease prevention, hypertension, obesity, non-invasive testing, pericardial and valvular heart disease, atrial fibrillation, and more. It’s continuing medical education that will help you to better:

• Apply knowledge gained to the ABIM certification/recertification cardiology board exams
• Perform differential diagnosis of complex clinical presentations related to cardiology disorders
• Identify and integrate current therapeutic options for specific cardiology disorders
• Analyze and interpret up-to-date literature relevant to clinical practice in cardiovascular medicine
• Express pathophysiology knowledge as it applies to cardiology disorders management

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…

Important Topics in Hospital Medicine CME

This continuing medical education course covers the clinical issues most relevant to hospitalists and other clinicians who care for inpatients. UCSF’s top teachers and selected guest faculty highlight recent advances and current controversies, delivering lectures on infectious diseases (including updates in COVID), critical care, perioperative care, consult medicine, nephrology, and much more.

With the Hospital Medicine: Evidence to Practice online CME course, you’ll gain new or improved strategies to:

• More easily and effectively diagnose common inpatient clinical presentations
• Perform an evidence-based evaluation for common inpatient clinical presentations
• Apply modern therapeutic approaches to common inpatient disorders
• Appreciate the emerging scientific understanding of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients

ESSENTIAL TOPICS IN HEMATOPATHOLOGY CME

Nephrology CME: Comprehensive Clinical Update and Board Review

With over 90 sessions — including case-based lectures, Q&A discussions, board exam prep and test-taking skills — this online video CME program features nationally renowned speakers who provide a comprehensive and indispensable review of state-of-the-art nephrology.

Intensive Review of Nephrology synthesizes recent advances in renal medicine, presenting them efficiently and effectively and ensuring you know the best ways to diagnose and treat your patients. You get valuable continuing medical education across all all major areas, with special insight on:

• Genetic testing for improved prognosis and therapy selection
• Introduction to point-of-care ultrasound: fundamentals for acquisition and interpretation
• Physical exam of the dialysis access
• Expanding the role of SGLT2i in diabetic and non-diabetic kidney disease
•  Cases in cryptonephrology
• The new fundamentals in immunology and nephrology (it’s not just for transplant patients)
• and more…