Oakstone CME Courses

Convenient, Comprehensive Neurology and PM&R CME

Designed for neurologists and physical medicine & rehabilitation doctors, residents, and fellows, this continuing medical education program covers all diagnostic and management approaches to both inherited and acquired neuromuscular conditions.

The 41 lectures in Electrodiagnostic Medicine and Neuromuscular Disorders — each just 30 and 45 minutes in length — delve into basic techniques and clinical applications of electrodiagnosis and ultrasound, as well as generalized disorders, motor neuron diseases, polyneuropathies, neuromuscular junction disorders, and myopathies. Key take-home points from this online CME program include:

• Basics of Needle EMG: Voluntary Activity. Motor unit potential waveform reflects the change in motor unit architecture due to disease processes, while the interference pattern provides information about the number of motor units and their activation.
• Neuropathies Associated with Systemic Disease and Cancer. Countless systemic disorders — metabolic, nutritional, inflammatory, infectious, neoplastic, and others — can cause neuropathy and accordingly, neuropathy can take many forms. Carefully characterizing the phenotype of neuropathy can help narrow down the relevant causes.
• Muscle Channelopathies. For a patient with a personal and family history of muscle stiffness and pain, consider genetic testing for myotonic disorders.
• And more…

Centers on the treatment of usual psychiatric patients with emphasis on the difficult to treat or treatment-resistant. Continuing medical education lectures will enhance your ability to choose treatments as you gain an understanding of the interface between psychiatric, neurological, and medical illness.

Legendary faculty review new antipsychotic medications and treatment augmentation, potential new uses for mood stabilizers, the neurobiologic mechanisms of depression and the role of inflammation, the importance of a therapeutic alliance when prescribing psychotropic medications, and more. With this online CME program, you’ll explore current evidence-based and emerging treatments for:
• Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
• Bipolar and treatment-resistant depression
• TMS and ECT
• Anxiety spectrum and sleep disorders
• PTSD
• Alcohol and substance abuse disorders
• Women’s mental health issues
• Child, adolescent, and geriatric psychopharmacology

Expert Clinicians Share Lessons Learned from Medical Mishaps

What My Mistakes Taught Me is a truly unique and illuminating online CME program. In 22 one-hour lectures, physicians from different areas of medicine and surgery discuss the expertise they’ve gained from problems, mistakes, and errors in clinical practice.

Led by Martin A. Samuels, MD, these experienced clinicians share case studies and the take-away messages learned from their own medical mishaps, emphasizing that:

• While we’re not perfect, we’re still valued contributors to our profession and society
• Perceived mistakes help us live with our imperfections and strengthen our integrity
• Recognized mistakes tell us what works and what doesn’t
• Accepting mistakes helps us take responsibility for erroneous ideas or actions
• Open acknowledgement of mistakes inspires others to do likewise

Learn Now: Advances in Interventional Radiology CME

In this online CME program, internationally recognized leaders present a multi-faceted approach to care of one of the most challenging patients: the critically-ill acute trauma patient. Interventional Radiology and Surgical Management of the Trauma Patient focuses on current endovascular and interventional techniques and state-of-the art equipment used to perform life-saving procedures by both interventional radiologists and trauma surgeons.

Earn CME credits with lectures covering embolization, balloon occlusion, stent and stent-graft placement, and other downstream interventions. You get interventional radiology CME that covers all major topics in the global treatment of trauma, including:

• exam choice and accurate diagnosis

• arterial and venous injuries

• solid organ trauma

• pelvic trauma

• firearm injuries

• acute brain trauma

• sepsis and infection control

Gastrointestinal Pathology CME: A Practical Overview

From Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. A practical, case-based overview for those who encounter GI and liver specimens in their daily practice, this online CME program addresses interpretation of upper GI tract mucosa and liver biopsies, along with recent advances in pancreatic and biliary pathology.

Current Topics in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology — led by renowned pathologist Lysandra Voltaggio, MD — includes case-based continuing medical education lectures designed to help you better interpret mucosal and liver biopsies, enhance your understanding of pancreatic and biliary disorders, and apply modern techniques to gastrointestinal disorders.

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

Enhance Your Dermatology Knowledge with Online CME

Dermatology for Primary Care is an online CME program designed exclusively for primary care providers and focused on total patient care — from diagnosis of common skin conditions and lesions, to developing a treatment plan and establishing skin care management. You’ll learn the fundamentals of the dermatologic exam, with an emphasis on what to look for — so you’ll know what you are looking at.

Led by Adam Friedman, MD and Karl Saardi, MD, faculty use real-patient photography to illustrate skin conditions including acne, eczema, melanoma, and other skin cancers. These real-life clinical scenarios and step-by-step procedural videos demonstrate common patterns of patient presentation, as well as how to approach patients who don’t improve and what adjustments to make when conditions change.

It’s continuing medical education that will help you answer the following questions:

• What are the most common dermatologic conditions encountered by nondermatologists?
• 
What are the most common and important dermatologic manifestations associated with systemic diseases?

• What is new and relevant in the medical/dermatologic arena and in relation to internal medicine?

Key Topics in Risk Management CME

Risk Management for Medical Practitioners focuses on the major risk management areas and legal pitfalls encountered in everyday practice and on enduring principles and strategies for managing these risks. This online CME course teaches risk management principles and current developments in liability prevention.

Through lectures and panel discussions, faculty address the impact of COVID-19 and its implications for clinical practice. Current concepts in malpractice prevention and risk management “hot spots” are emphasized, including best ways to diminish risks associated with documentation and informed consent. It’s available online, so you can conveniently earn CME credits while learning more about topics such as:

• Email communication risks
• Prescription monitoring programs
• Curbside consultation: Pros and cons
• Supervisor liability for nurse practitioners, PAs, residents, and medical students
• Strategies if sued
• Witness stand perils and opportunities
• Malpractice insurance coverage
• and many more!

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be better able to apply the following:

• Describe the essential of risk management in medical, surgical and psychiatric practices
• Successfully navigate the realities of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Document with diminished liability risk
• Outline risks of telemedicine, email communications, and electronic medical record
• Describe the risks related to your licensing board
• Discuss liability issues pertaining to the prescription monitoring program and the consequences of the Notebook
• Review strategies for improved communication when things go wrong
• Assess risks in supervising trainees, nurse practitioners & physician assistants
• Utilize strategic tips about liability protection from both plaintiff’s attorney and defense attorney and practicing clinicians
• Discuss informed consent and the heightened expectations of the Boards process rather than a signed form
• Better navigate the insurer’s perspective about liability
• Distinguish between curbside vs. formal consultation and understand their benefits and risks

Target Audience

This activity is targeted towards physicians of all specialties, with a special focus on medical, surgical, and psychiatric practices.

Learn Now: Thrombosis CME from the Experts

This online CME course from the North American Thrombosis Forum provides a comprehensive review of the most significant changes and advances impacting the care of patients who have — or are at risk for — thrombotic disorders. World-renowned experts and leading clinical faculty share key updates on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of thrombosis and related conditions.

Thrombosis and Thromboembolism is continuing medical education that will help you to:

• Identify the etiology and pathophysiology of atherothrombosis
• Recognize the link between inflammation and thrombotic illnesses
• Explain new tools for stroke prevention and prediction in atrial fibrillation
• Identify the optimal duration of anticoagulation for PE and DVT
• Provide advanced therapies such as thrombolysis, catheter-directed therapy, and surgical embolectomy
• Explain the connection between diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and major adverse cardiac events
• Provide patients with useful insights into how a heart-healthy diet can help prevent thrombosis
• Manage a high-risk pregnancy
• And more…

Diabetes and Obesity Management Online CME

This unique online video CME course — a response to the burden of diseases driven by obesity and diabetes — is designed to help you manage these two conditions holistically, with an eye toward the health of both your patients and their communities.

Expert faculty from Harvard Medical School and other leading institutions guide you through evidence-based patient assessment, methods to support behavioral modification in different care settings, and tailoring of both medical and procedural therapeutics for those struggling with metabolic disease.

Diabetes and Obesity: Patient-Centered Management is available online so you can earn continuing medical education credits whenever, wherever. It will help you to better:

• Identify and integrate current therapeutic options for obesity and diabetes
• Apply current and recommended guidelines
• Deliver equitable care with respect to race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, sexual preference, and gender orientation