Virtual Lecture Hall CME

A Clinician’s Guide to Sexual Assault will help you to:
• Understand the epidemiology of sexual assault;
• Anticipate your patients’ needs; and
• Meet legal and forensic requirements in assault cases.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Texas.

A Guide to the Secrets of Never-Sued Physicians will help you to:
• Utilize the behaviors of never-sued physicians and incorporate them into daily practice;
• Refrain from using specific physician behaviors that precipitate lawsuits;
• Recognize potentially litigious patients and put into practice methods for dealing with them
• Practice medicine in a way that is consistent with recognized ethical principles.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Risk Management.

An Introduction to the Practice of Palliative Medicine will help you to:
• Utilize therapies intended to reduce or relieve distressing symptoms;
• Communicate better, including using active listening and shared decision-making;
• Coordinate care with health and spiritual professionals;
• Manage and support patients and family members experiencing death and bereavement; and
• Apply important ethical principles to patient care.

Meets Special CME Requirements in California, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Palliative Care

Communicating Through Healthcare Interpreters will help you to:
• Understand the legal requirements and clinical importance of working with interpreters;
• Better manage your communications with patients who do not speak English;
• Appropriately use interpreters and interpretive services in your practice setting; and
• Improve your level of cultural competency.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas

Current Management of Domestic Violence – Responding to IPV will help you to:
• Improve your skills by managing up to 17 patient cases;
• Meet your ethical and legal obligations to screen patients for intimate partner violence (IPV); and appropriately respond to disclosures of abuse; Assess the safety of IPV victims; and
• Work with your patients to change their violent situation.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Texas.

Topics covered in Intensive Review of Endocrinology and Metabolism include:
Adrenal Dysfunction, Menopause, Thyroid Nodules and Cancer, Male Hypogonadism and Infertility, Endocrine Surgery, Obesity, Diabetes Therapeutics: From New Insulins to Incretins, Female Hypogonadism, Pituitary Disorders, Metabolic Bone Disease and many more.

Studying Intensive Review of Endocrinology and Metabolism will help you to:
• Prepare for the ABIM endocrinology board exams
• Identify and effectively manage endocrine disorders in patients of varying ages
• Apply new information to everyday endocrinology care, improving diagnostic accuracy and management decisions
• Analyze the impact of endocrine disorders on women’s health, including pregnancy
• Appraise the management of osteoporosis and suggest effective preventive measures in diabetic care

EMTALA: An E.R. Law That Affects All Physicians, 2nd Edition will help you to:
• Realize how EMTALA affects your own practice;
• Understand how to comply with the law;
• Keep abreast of changes in the rules and regulations that govern enforcement;
• Become familiar with the penalties for noncompliance with EMTALA; and
• Meet your ethical and legal responsibilities to provide care.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians specializing in Emergency Medicine

Improving Outcomes in Chronic Pain will help you to:
Assess and measure pain and its effects on your patients;
Choose appropriate therapies for chronic pain;
Better manage common pain syndromes; and
Safeguard your practice from drug abuse and diversion.

Infection Control for Physicians will help you to:
• Use evidence-based risk management practices and current guidelines to control infection in health care personnel;
• Improve your knowledge and skills in blood borne infection, drug resistant organisms, and outpatient respiratory illness; and
• Meet state infection control training requirements.

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island (Universal Precautions), Rhode Island (Infection Control / Modes of Transmission) and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Infection Control.

Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors will help you to:
• Recognize how root causes and other factors contribute to errors and medical adverse events;
• Understand the difference between active and latent causes of medical adverse events;
• Manage your ethical obligation to promptly and openly disclose a medical error to a patient and their family;
• Develop ongoing patient safety improvement efforts based on national standards and guidelines

Meets Special CME Requirements in Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Medical Errors