Radiology CME

Some examples of topics covered by CME activities on the site include:
• Adult Echocardiography
• Anesthesiology
• Critical Care Ultrasound
• Emergency Medicine Ultrasound
• Family Medicine/Primary Care
• Fetal Echocardiography

Target Audience: Radiologists

All courses are about new and current imaging modalities, with a primary focus on breast imaging.

Courses fall into these groups:
• Advanced MRI Tutorials
• Automated Breast Ultrasound
• Breast MRI
• Breast Stereotactic Biopsy
• Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT)
• Breast Ultrasound
• DXA
• Liver LI-RADS
• Prostate MRI

Target Audience: Radiologists

The site contains over 50 courses in medical imaging. The majority of offerings are in obstetrical ultrasound. Some nice pictures of black-and-white and color Doppler images.

Some new courses include:
• Vascular Laboratory Markers of Cardiovascular Risk
• Principles of OB/GYN Sonography
• Buzzwords in Sonography
• Digital Breast Tomosynthesis

Target Audience: Physicians specializing in OB-GYN, Radiology

CME activities of special interest to radiologists and other imaging specialists. 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: Radiologists

RSNA’s Online Education contains several types of CME instruction, primarily oriented to radiologists, organized into sections including: Refresher Courses, RadioGraphics & Radiology CME tests, Cases of the Day, Radiology Select and Supplemental Online Education.

RSNA also offers Point of Care Learning (PoC), a structured, self-directed, online learning activity designed for physicians on topics relevant to their clinical practice. This activity is available only to RSNA members.

Target Audience: Radiologists

This site features “updates on new issues in cross-sectional imaging and…interactive reviews of illustrative cases of important findings commonly encountered in everyday radiology practice.”

Examples of courses include:
• MRI and CT Imaging of Brain Trauma
• 8 Years of QA: A Compilation of Frequent Misses and Misinterpretations in Cross-sectional Imaging
• Pelvic Trauma: Bone and Soft Tissue Imaging
• Radiology of the Post-Breast Cancer Patient
• MRI Evaluation of Osteochondral Lesions and Osteomyelitis
• Landmarks of Cortical Neuroanatomy

Target Audience: Radiologists

This site covers many topics related to Radiology.

Topics covered include:
• Ultrasound of Carotid Arteries
• Evaluation of Acute Scrotum
• CTC for Population Screening
• High-Resolution CT: Sarcoidosis and Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
• Management of the Small Solid Renal Masses: Basis for the ACR White Paper
• Ankle Trauma: Advanced Anatomy, Imaging & Classification

Target Audience: Radiologists

Activity Description / Statement of Need:

In this online, self-learning activity:

Neutropenia, a decrease in the number of a type of white blood cell (WBC) in the body, is a common complication in patients undergoing myelosuppressive chemotherapy that can result in serious, life-threatening infections. Febrile neutropenia (FN), or neutropenia accompanied by a fever, poses an even greater risk to patients and the frequent treatment complication results in over 100,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. each year. Neutropenia can manifest up to twelve days following treatment with a chemotherapy agent and FN occurs in about eight per 1,000 patients receiving chemotherapy. Fever is defined as a single oral temperature of 38.3+ °C or 38.0+ °C over the course of an hour, with neutropenia defined as less than 500 neutrophils/mcL or less than 1000 with a predicted decline to less 500 over the following 48 hours. Development of FN may lead to hospitalization with costs estimated at approximately $15,000 per visit, and it may also complicate care by reducing chemotherapy relative dose intensity (RDI) and possibly compromise treatment efficacy and lower survival rates.

Target Audience:

Oncologists and hematologists; physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists who practice in oncology; and other HCPs with an interest in or who clinically encounter patients with FN or at risk of developing it.