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Oakstone CME Psychopharmacology – A Master Class
The Latest CME: Advances in Psychopharmacology
This unique online CME course is designed for experienced clinicians who understand the basic therapeutic mechanisms of psychotropic medications and who are familiar with neurobiological and genetic contributions to psychiatric illnesses. World-renowned faculty focus on treatment of both typical and difficult-to treat child, adolescent, or geriatric psychiatric patients.
In Psychopharmacology — A Masters Class, you’ll explore both the interface of medical and psychiatric disorders, and the interface between neurology and psychiatry. The importance of a therapeutic alliance when prescribing psychotropic medications is underscored, as are the hazards and benefits of polypharmacy drug interactions. Catch up on current and emerging treatments of:
- Schizophrenia or bipolar personality disorders
- Anxiety spectrum or sleep disorders
- Alcohol and substance abuse disorders
- Treatment resistant depression
- Women’s mental health issues
- ADHD
- Borderline personality disorders
- Eating disorders
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be better able to apply:
- Evaluate the effects of neurotransmitters and genes on psychotropic drug treatment
- Study the interface between neurology and psychiatry
- Describe the pharmacologic treatment of schizophrenia with particular reference to the prodromal period and first episode
- Outline the emerging theories and treatments of bipolar disorder, depression, treatment resistant depression, bipolar depression, stress and anxiety disorder
- Discuss the role of psychotropic medications in women’s mental health with an emphasis on PMS, pregnancy, nursing, and the postpartum period
- Review the appropriate use of medications in the treatment of sleep disorders
- Access psychopharmacologic treatment of eating disorders
- Summarize the interface between medicine and psychiatric disorders with an emphasis on cardiovascular disease and cancer
- Review the appropriate use of stimulants in the treatment of attention and ADHD disorders as well as their use as an adjunct to antidepressant treatment
- Identify psychopharmacologic treatment for the borderline personality disorder
- Explain the role of psychopharmacology in the treatment of substance use disorders with particular emphasis on alcohol, opiates, and cannabis
- Recognize when to utilize ECT and TMS for the treatment of depression
- Discuss standard psychopharmacologic treatments that have now been proven to be ineffective
- Give examples of the latest advances and problems associated with treatment approaches in the child, adolescent and geriatric populations
Intended Audience
Experienced clinicians in the field of psychopharmacology drawn from the following disciplines: psychiatry, medicine, nursing, nurse practitioners, and psychology.
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- Credit hours: 14
- CME credits awarded by: Oakstone Publishing, LLC.
- Format: On-Demand Online
- Material last updated: May 15, 2021
- Expiration of CME credit: January 31, 2024
Oakstone CME Molecular Diagnostics: Cancer Diagnosis and Patient Management
Learn Now: Advances in Molecular Diagnostics
In Molecular Diagnostics: Cancer Diagnosis and Patient Management, experts in the field review current concepts and up-to-date techniques, delving into the appropriate use of molecular assays for different tumor types to inform diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment using evidence-based guidelines.
Lectures in this online CME course illustrate common diagnostic pitfalls, with additional focus on variant interpretation and the complexity of billing for molecular tests. It’s continuing medical education that will help you to:
- Develop appropriate tissue-handling protocols
- Evaluate cytogenetic and molecular techniques, including next generation sequencing assays
- Recognize cost-effective, time-sensitive approaches to molecular studies, including cell free DNA testing
- Determine the process of clinical interpretation of genetic variation
- Analyze costs and potential sources of revenue for molecular diagnostics programs
- Consider essential and emerging biomarkers in common adult and pediatric solid and liquid tumors
- Cost: $895
- Credit hours: 18
- CME credits awarded by: Oakstone Publishing, LLC.
- Material last updated: October 30, 2021
- Expiration of CME credit: January 31, 2024
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Oakstone CME What My Mistakes Taught Me
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
- Cost: $695
- Credit hours: 19
- CME credits awarded by: Oakstone Publishing, LLC.
- Material last updated: July 15, 2021
- Expiration of CME credit: July 24, 2024
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Oakstone CME Assessment and Effective Treatment of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Disorders
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Enhance Your Approach to Substance Use Disorders with Online CMEIn addition to an emphasis on alcohol use disorder — especially the underlying neurobiology and medication intervention — this online CME course explores opioid use disorder, medication treatment options and how best to use them, and at-risk subpopulations. Assessment and Effective Treatment of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Disorders is psychiatry continuing medical education that takes an in-depth look at:
- Nonmedication treatment options, including behavioral strategies and pharmacological interventions
- The role of psychotherapy, referral to AA, and SMART Recovery
- Helping family members of patients with substance use disorders
- Techniques to deal with the unmotivated patient’s denial, ambivalence, and reluctance to change, demonstrating how to motivate, persuade and confront effectively
- Assessment and treatment of patients with co-occurring disorders such as trauma
- Cost: $895
- Credit hours: 12.50
- CME credits awarded by: Oakstone Publishing, LLC.
- Material last updated: December 31, 2021
- Expiration of CME credit: January 31, 2024
Oakstone CME Interventional Radiology and Surgical Management of the Trauma Patient
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
- Cost: $895
- Credit hours: 14
- CME credits awarded by: Oakstone Publishing, LLC.
- Format: On-Demand Online
- Material last updated: January 15, 2022
- Expiration of CME credit: January 15, 2025
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Oakstone CME Current Topics in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology
Comprehensive, Convenient Gastrointestinal Pathology CME
Under the direction of renowned pathologist Lysandra Voltaggio, MD, Current Topics in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology speakers discuss recent advances in pancreatic and biliary pathology.
Through recorded lectures, slide seminars, and Q&A sessions, you’ll gain a better understanding of interpretation of mucosal biopsies, liver biopsies, pancreatic/biliary disorders and the application of modern techniques to gastrointestinal disorders.
This online CME program covers molecular pathology, gastric cancer mimickers, gastric intestinal metaplasia, consultation and diagnostic pitfalls, application of cell-free DNA, hepatocellular carcinoma, unusual and unexpected colon polyps, medication effects, pancreatic cancer variants, and more.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the learner will demonstrate the ability to:
- Recognize the major histological types of gastric cancer and the variants with clinical relevance
- Recognize the spectrum of benign/reactive lesions that mimic gastric cancer and its precursor lesions
- Discuss current practice guidelines in management of gastric intestinal metaplasia
- Recognize relevant pathologic features that are necessary for decision making in selecting treatment options of early gastric cancer
- Identify helpful diagnostic features on selected challenging cases from the Gl consultation service
- Name the current clinical utility of cell-free DNA in the characterization of gastrointestinal malignancies
- Distinguish between neuroendocrine neoplasms and other non-neoplastic lesions and neoplasms that can mimic neuroendocrine neoplasms
- Describe the special stains that aid in the histologic diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma
- Discuss how single cell RNA sequencing and other molecular advances deepen our understanding of “normal” human intestinal crypt niche homeostasis and injury responses across anatomic segments
- Recognize basic histologic pattern of the most common liver diseases
- Discuss when colon polyps may be linked to polyposis syndromes
- Describe medication effects that can mimic gastrointestinal diseases
- Identify the clinically significant distinct variants of pancreatic cancer
Intended Audience
This activity is intended for community pathologists, gastrointestinal specialists, hepatologists and gastrointestinal and hepatology fellows and residents.
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- Credit hours: 14
- CME credits awarded by: Oakstone Publishing, LLC
- Format: On-Demand Online
- Material last updated: February 15, 2022
- Expiration of CME credit: February 15, 2024
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Oakstone CME UCSF Abdominal and Thoracic Imaging
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
- Cost: $995
- Credit hours: 20.75
- CME credits awarded by: Oakstone Publishing
- Format: On-Demand Online
- Material last updated: April 16, 2022
- Expiration of CME credit: April 15, 2025
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Oakstone CME Dermatology for Primary Care
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?
- Cost: $595
- Credit hours: 14.50
- CME credits awarded by: Oakstone Publishing
- Format: On-Demand Online
- Material last updated: March 1, 2022
- Expiration of CME credit: March 1, 2025
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Oakstone CME Intensive Update in Pain Management
Pain Management CME: Learn the Latest Strategies for Optimal Care
The practice of pain medicine is undergoing tremendous changes as a result of therapeutic advances, healthcare reform, and the impact of the opioid crisis and COVID-19. Cleveland Clinic’s Intensive Update in Pain Management features in-depth reviews and analyses of recent advances in pain medicine and regional anesthesia/analgesia.
In this online CME course, a renowned faculty provide insightful assessment and clinical practice evaluation of key topics to:
- Promote a better understanding of the pathophysiology of acute and chronic pain
- Enhance knowledge regarding various chronic somatic and neuropathic pain conditions
- Critically review novel state-of-the-art interventional and non-interventional techniques in diagnosis and management of chronic pain
- Cost: $895
- Credit hours: 14.5
- CME credits awarded by: Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education
- Format: On-Demand Online, Audio and Video
- Material last updated: April 30, 2022
- Expiration of CME credit: April 30, 2024
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Oakstone CME Risk Management for Medical Practitioners
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.
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