Pediatrics CME

There are presently 9 cases:
A Pretty Worm; Fever and Not Acting Right; Fussy Baby; Nighty-Night Nightmare; Pain, Paresthesia, Paresis, and PulseFULness; Pesky Palpitations; Pipe-Eye; Sleepy Toddler; and The Perilous Pencil.

Target Audience: ER, PED.

The current modules part of this course are:
Preparedness for Pediatric Emergencies; Pediatric Assessment; The Pediatric Airway in Health and Disease; Cardiovascular System; Central Nervous System; Metabolic Disease; Environmental Emergencies; Toxicology: Ingestions and Smoke Inhalation; Trauma; Child Maltreatment; Nontraumatic Surgical Emergencies; Nontraumatic Orthopedic Emergencies; Neonatal Emergencies; Procedural Sedation and Analgesia; Interface With EMS; Disaster Management; Preparedness for Acts of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism; Children With Special Health Care Needs: The Technologically Dependent Child; Medical-Legal Considerations; Office-Based Emergencies; and Critical Procedures.

Target Audience: Pediatricians

Topics covered include:
• Current Trends in Infant Feeding
• Prenatal Nutrition and Breastfeeding Education
• Labor, Delivery and Immediate Postpartum Period
• Preterm and Late Preterm Infants
• The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
• Feeding the Older Infant and Young Child

Target Audience: Pediatricians

This site offers Pediatrics activities offering CME activities.

All activities can be accessed online and cover a broad range of key topics related to Pediatrics.

Target Audience: Pediatricians

Each week or two, a live lecture is presented and archived on the web shortly thereafter.
Some top lectures are:
• Diagnosis and Management of Carbohydrate-Induced Diarrhea
• Encephalitis in Children
• Causes and consequences of autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS) and related disorders of apoptosis
• Head Injury Evaluation: Old and New
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Children
• Medical Assessment of the Newly Arrived Internationally Adopted Child

There is no post-lecture exam; just fill out the evaluation to earn your credit.

Target Audience: Pediatricians

This site offers many types of CME activities including live and archived webinars, online CME rounds, and more.

Some popular topics include:
Marijuana trends in adolescents, hypertension, pediatric cochlear implementation, behavorial impact of sleep apnea, and more.

Target Audience: Pediatricians

There are three types of online education listed on the site.

Grand Rounds- Explore all of our Grand Round offerings by topic. View topics for upcoming live events and access online archived video presentations.

Additional Online Continuing Education- Find online training programs for a variety of nursing and medical professionals including, CME, CNE and Internet Point of Care Credit (PoC)

Simulation and Emergency Training- Learn about our simulation and emergency offerings including ACLS, PALS and EMS-C.

Target Audience: Pediatricians

Individual subscribers to JAMA Pediatrics and AMA members may participate in JAMA Pediatrics CME.

You will find a wide selection of Pediatrics topics.

Target Audience: Pediatricians

CME activities of special interest to pediatricians.

Medscape contains a variety of educational formats:

CONFERENCE COVERAGE – Reports of advances presented at major medical conferences; typically includes several tracks with news stories, expert interviews, and in-depth topic overviews.

CLINICAL UPDATE – Comprehensive original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.

FAST TRACK CLINICAL UPDATE – Narrowly focused original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.

CME-LIVE – Real-time online events with streaming video, synchronized visuals, and interactive questions and answers; archived for 1 year.

CLINICAL BRIEFS – Daily reports of major current medical research articles; 0.25 credits each

JOURNAL CME – Articles selected from a wide selection of peer-reviewed journals.
SPECIAL REPORT CME – Topic-based monthly email newsletter distributed to Medscape’s professional member database by specialty.

INTERACTIVE PATIENT CASES – Original CME activity presented to the physician in an interactive, clinical case-based format.

CME CIRCLE – Multimedia content certified by other accredited professional education providers, typically from live symposia or monographs, and then posted on Medscape and archived for one year.

Target Audience: Pediatricians

These lectures are intended for neonatologists.

Top lectures include:
• Benefits and Challenges of the Use of Human Milk for Premature Infants
• Etiology of Preterm Labor
• Evidence-Based Medicine: Interpretation of Recent Clinical Trials in Neonatology: Should We Change Practice?
• Newborn Implications of Immune Modulation in the Fetus

After the lecture, submit answers to a 10-question exam to earn your CME credit.