Oakstone CME Courses

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

Board Prep with Online Pediatrics CME

This nationally recognized program from Cleveland Clinic is a comprehensive pediatric board review sharply focused on helping you prepare for board certification or recertification. The quality and breadth of content in this online CME course is also beneficial for those seeking a thorough review of basic pediatric clinical information while earning MOC.

With 60+ general pediatric and specialty-specific lectures and board simulation sessions, Pediatric Board Review is continuing medical education that will help you to:

• Gain the knowledge you need to pass the pediatric board examination or recertification exam
• Devise a differential diagnosis and construct a therapeutic plan for specific presentations
• Interpret laboratory findings for a host of clinical presentations
• And more…

Stay Current with Essential Internal Medicine CME

The UCSF Advances in Internal Medicine online CME course provides an expert review of the most recent clinical advances and current controversies. Clinically active faculty emphasize topics of clinical relevance — cardiology, geriatrics, endocrinology, general internal medicine, women’s health, infectious diseases, gastroenterology, hematology and oncology, neurology, rheumatology, and pulmonary disease.

Designed for practicing internists, family practitioners, and other primary care health professionals, this internal medicine continuing medical education program will help you to:

• Better manage common medical conditions such as diabetes, osteoporosis, obstructive lung disease, and obesity
• Bring your practice in line with current evidence and updated guidelines for ischemic heart disease, vaccinations, sexually transmitted infections, contraception, and stroke prevention
• Manage problems traditionally treated by specialists and recognize indications for referral for conditions such as heart failure, cirrhosis, advanced lung disease, allergies, common neurologic diagnoses, and side effects of modern cancer therapy

CME Guidance for Diabetes and Obesity Management

This innovative online video CME course tackles the rising challenge of obesity and diabetes — two closely connected conditions that need to be treated together. Through comprehensive and practical lectures, you can explore holistic approaches to patient care, combining evidence-based assessments with strategies for behavioral change in diverse clinical settings.

Diabetes and Obesity: Caring for the Whole Patient includes expert-led discussions on current and emerging medications and procedures that will help you tailor therapeutic plans for patients struggling with metabolic disease. It’s continuing medical education designed to foster an interdisciplinary approach to inclusive, equitable care that improves the health of your patients and their communities.

Evidence-Based Cardiology CME: Strategies for ACHD

Adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) are a rapidly growing, frequently underserved population who present new challenges in cardiology patient management. In this online video CME course, presenters address the latest clinical and research advances in congenital anomaly morphologies.

Evidence-based lectures focus on the best diagnostic modalities and interventions, as well as the most appropriate management strategies. You get continuing medical education that will improve your ability to:

• Assess right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction, including clinical evaluation and interventional, surgical, and hybrid options
• Assess and manage adults who underwent Fontan surgery, including imaging, treatment options, and timing of valve interventions, Fontan conversion, and heart failure therapies
• Assess and treat patients with Fontan-associated liver disease
• Recognize social and patient-perceived barriers that complicate the diagnosis and life-long management of ACHD
• Detail the highly complex ecosystem of adult congenital heart care and describe how new guidelines may shape care in the future

Radiology CME: Explore Abdominal and Thoracic Imaging

Designed for both the general and specialized radiologist, UCSF Abdominal and Thoracic Imaging is an online CME course providing an extensive review of clinically relevant topics in chest, abdominal, pelvic, and ob-gyn imaging. Speakers discuss interpretation tips for both routine and emerging applications, artificial intelligence and its implications in clinical practice, and more.

You get case-based continuing medical education lectures targeting relevant areas of focus, including:

• Abdominal — female pelvis, acute pelvic pain in the reproductive age female, early and ectopic pregnancy, male pelvis and prostate, gastrointestinal conditions including the liver, and organ transplants
•  Thoracic — lung cancer screening, pulmonary embolism, mediastinal masses, chest radiographs, and other findings and indications relevant for the general radiologist

Geriatric Board Review: CME from the Experts

The UCLA Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine and Board Review is one of the longest running and highest-regarded programs of its kind. This online video CME course emphasizes an evidence-based, practical, and functional approach to the comprehensive care of older adults.

You can prep for certification or re-certification exams while gaining in-depth of knowledge in neurology, cardiology, psychiatry, urology, hematology, gastroenterology, nephrology, endocrinology, pharmacology, and rheumatology as they apply to older patients. It’s continuing medical education that will help you to better:

• Apply principles of geriatric assessment, pharmacology, rehabilitation, and long-term care
• Identify psychological problems related to aging
• Create individual medication regimens for the older adults
• Address geriatric syndromes such as dementia, pain management, incontinence, and osteoporosis

Online Internal Medicine CME: Comprehensive Exam Prep

This acclaimed CME program provides a proven and extensive review, coupled with comprehensive preparation, test-taking skills, and strategies for the ABIM board examination. It’s continuing medical education that spans all major fields of internal medicine to ensure you’re current with state-of-the-art patient care. The 45th Annual Intensive Review of Internal Medicine features Harvard Medical School faculty who share:

• Newer options for diagnosis: what to choose, when, and why
• Treatment and care management strategies to optimize patient outcomes
• How to avoid medical mistakes
• Improved approaches to common and complex clinical challenges
• Navigating screening controversies
• And more…