Oakstone CME Courses

Learn from an Industry Trailblazer

Dermatopathology – Masters of Pathology Series, is directed by Jerad M. Gardner, MD, #1 Trailblazer of the Lab on The Pathologist’s 2019 Power List. Join Dr. Gardner as he presents a pragmatic approach to dealing with skin biopsies, common conundrums and more. Through informative microscopy sessions and practical discussions, this dermatopathology continuing medical education program will improve your ability to:

• Interpret requisition sheets and understand clinical dermatology terminology
• Apply a structured approach to analysis and classification of keratoses, neoplasms, adnexal tumors, sarcomas
• Recognize and diagnose common lesions and unique nevus subtypes
• Report diagnoses that will be understood and result in optimal patient care

Learning Objectives

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

• Diagnose actinic keratosis, verruca, seborrheic keratosis, and squamous cell carcinoma and have practical ways of dealing with uncertain cases or small biopsies
• Apply a structured approach to analyzing melanocytic lesions and distinguishing nevus from melanoma
• Recognize unique subtypes of nevus and melanoma that may easily misdiagnosed
• Apply a structured approach to classifying skin adnexal tumors
• Recognize serious non-neoplastic dermatologic conditions that are often urgent or emergent clinically and handle them appropriately and expediently
• Utilize a pattern based descriptive approach to evaluating and reporting inflammatory skin biopsies
• Identify and recognize important sarcomas that often arise in skin
• Recognize and diagnose various fibrohistiocytic, myxoid, and other spindle cell lesions that commonly present in skin
• Recognize select hematolymphoid and histiocytic entities that commonly present in skin

Intended Audience

This educational activity is intended for practicing pathologists.

Key Topics in Pathology CME

Pathology Board Review, an online CME course, presents a comprehensive array of pathology topics, from head to toe in anatomic pathology, to the nuts and bolts of running a multidisciplinary clinical pathology laboratory with support for highly specialized testing. It’s continuing medical education that will guide you in applying relevant concepts to the pathology boards examination, and help you to better:

• Define high-yield concepts within anatomic pathology, including neoplasm recognition and subclassification
• Discuss mesenchymal and hematopoietic neoplasms
• Explain basic concepts in placental pathology
• Describe laboratory management concepts and their use with transfusion medicine, blood banking, chemistry, immunology, microbiology, cytogenetics, and more

Learning Objectives

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

• List high yield concepts within anatomic pathology, including recognition and subclassification of neoplasms of the breast, skin, gastrointestinal tract, hepatobiliary tract, soft tissue, bone, head and neck, heart, lung, kidney, male and female reproductive tracts, and brain
• Discuss mesenchymal and hematopoietic neoplasms, including those involving children
• Explain basic concepts in placental pathology, with a focus on high yield material for the boards examination
• Describe concepts of laboratory management and explain their utilization in health care, specifically with transfusion medicine/blood baking, chemistry, hematology (including hemoglobinopathies), coagulation, immunology, microbiology (including bacteriology, virology, parasitology), and molecular techniques ranging from cytogenetics to next generation sequencing

Target Audience

This course is designed for pathology residents/fellows preparing for their specialty examinations, as well as practicing pathologists who wish to fulfill MOC (CME and SAM) requirements, prepare for recertification, or update their knowledge in general.

Radiation Oncology CME from the Experts

Comprehensive Review of Radiation Oncology consists of 30 one-hour lectures spanning a wide range of radiation therapy treatments that require a complex set of processes: diagnosis, consultation, simulation, contouring target volumes and normal tissue structures, treatment planning, chart review, treatment delivery, quality assurance, and patient follow-up. Authoritative and clinically experienced faculty guide you to more efficient, safer, and higher quality care for each patient. This online CME program will help you to better:

• Describe delivery speed and dose rates of FLASH radiation therapy
• List head and neck tumors for which radiotherapy is beneficial
• Compare radiotherapy for brain metastases and primary brain tumors
• Summarize differences in therapy for non-small versus small cell lung tumor
• Discuss therapy for upper and lower GI malignancies
• Contrast decision making involved in therapy after mastectomy and after breast conservation

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should be able to:

• Define the initial clinical evaluation of a cancer patient – using the physical exam, history, relevant diagnostic studies, and communication with the referring and other physicians involved
• Describe the delivery speed and dose rates of FLASH radiation therapy
• List the head and neck tumors for which radiotherapy is beneficial
• Compare radiotherapy for brain metastases with radiotherapy for primary brain tumors
• Summarize the differences in radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer
• Discuss radiation therapy for upper and lower gastrointestinal malignancies
• Contrast the decision making involved in radiation therapy after mastectomy and after breast conservation
• Explain effective treatment delivery for gynecological tumors
• Differentiate the treatment planning required for Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• Compare the doses and beams of various intensities used in stereotactic body radiation therapy used for primary and metastatic gastrointestinal tumors and spinal tumors

Intended Audience

This educational activity was designed for radiation oncologists in practice, radiation oncology residents and fellows.

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

Earn CME Credits and Board Review Prep

The Brigham Board Review in Gastroenterology and Hepatology provides in-depth CME coverage of wide-ranging topics, keeping you abreast of the latest advances in the field.

This board review course includes case-based lectures on topics like GERD, gastrointestinal bleeding, gastric and small bowel motility disorders, acute liver failure, celiac disease, benign and malignant biliary diseases, and more. It’s online CME that will help you to better:

• Apply latest/recommended gastroenterology guidelines in clinical practice
• Attain the latest knowledge on clinical presentation, pathologic features, diagnosis, and differential diagnosis of various gastroenterology disorders
• Stay updated on an expanding array of therapeutic options for diverse gastrohepatic disorders
• Evaluate and interpret up-to-date literature for evidence-based clinical practice in gastroenterology
• Prepare for ABIM certification/recertification gastroenterology examinations

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

• Apply current/recommended gastroenterology guidelines in clinical practice
• Perform differential diagnosis of complex clinical presentations related to gastroenterology disorders
• Identify and apply current therapeutic options for specific gastroenterology disorders
• Analyze and interpret up-to-date literature relevant to clinical practice in gastroenterology
• Recognize and apply knowledge of pathophysiology as it applies to management of gastroenterology disorders
• Apply knowledge gained to the ABIM certification/recertification gastroenterology examinations

Intended Audience

This educational activity was designed for fellows/trainees and practicing gastroenterology specialists (MDs) and other professional affiliates (internists with an interest in gastroenterology) who are preparing to take ABIM Board Review or Recertification Examinations or who seek CME activities to improve patient care in the area of gastroenterology medicine. The target audience is regional, national and international.

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…

Enhance Your Infectious Disease Knowledge with Online CME

Directed by James H. Maguire, MD, The Brigham Board Review in Infectious Diseases is comprehensive continuing medical education that covers a wide range of topics in a relevant and rapidly evolving field.

Through case-based lectures and in-depth discussions, this expertly designed review sheds light on the entire gamut of issues related to infectious diseases. It’s online CME that will help you to better:

• Assimilate and demonstrate improved overall knowledge of infectious diseases
• Correlate pathophysiology and pathobiologic principles with clinical presentations
• Evaluate the latest therapeutic strategies, their risks and benefits
• Appraise the management of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, zoonoses, viral hepatitis, etc.
• Incorporate new knowledge into daily practice to provide paramount care to the patients
• Prepare for ABIM Infectious Diseases certification/recertification examinations

Learning Objectives

After viewing this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Integrate and demonstrate increased overall knowledge of infectious diseases
• Identify and improve knowledge and clinical competence-based practice gaps in infectious diseases
• Correlate pathophysiology and pathobiologic principles with clinical presentations
• Describe optimal therapeutic strategies and their risks and benefits
• Apply the knowledge and strategies gained through participation in this activity to the board exam and daily practice

Intended Audience

This educational activity was designed for practicing infectious disease specialists, internists with an interest in infectious disease, and fellows and trainees who are preparing to become board certified, maintaining their certification, or who seek CME activities to improve patient care in the area of infectious disease.

Continuing Medical Education: Advances in Endocrinology

This online CME course in endocrinology is extremely thorough, covering a range of key topics and core concepts in the specialty. The Brigham Board Review in Endocrinology includes case-based lectures on a range of practice improvement areas, including adrenal, bone health and osteoporosis, cardiovascular endocrinology, diabetes, obesity, and thyroid. It’s endocrinology CME will help you to better:

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

Learning Objectives

After viewing this activity, participants should be able to affirm or modify their approach to patient management in the following areas:

• Integrate and demonstrate increased overall knowledge of endocrine diseases
• Identify and improve knowledge and clinical competence-based practice gaps in endocrinology
• Correlate pathophysiology and pathobiologic principles with clinical presentations
• Describe optimal therapeutic strategies and their risks and benefits
• Apply the knowledge and strategies gained through participation in this activity to the board exam and daily practice

Intended Audience

This activity was designed for fellows/trainees and practicing endocrinologists and other professional affiliates (internists with an interest in endocrinology) who are preparing to become board certified, maintaining their certification, or who seek CME in attempt to improve patient care.

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.