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AARC Web casts 1 CEU each, many to choose from There are a couple of things to consider before we classify these as free CEU’s. First, in order to get free CEU’s directly from AARC education you have to be a member which is not free to join. Secondly, these webcasts are only good for free CEU’s to AARC members for viewing the LIVE feed. “Live” is the key word as it means you have to be present during the scheduled showing. Once the show is no longer live, any replays of their archived broadcasts is going to cost $15.00. There is quite an impressive line up of upcoming broadcasts with multiple times posted and archived material if you are so inclined to pay. American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) 5.5 hours American Heart Association Scientific Sessions Online 2003 4 courses, 7.5 hours Anesthesiology Online 50 credits available Applies to all interested professionals. Nurse CEU’s available. Updated and new articles each month. AnticoagulatonCME.com 40 hours Advances in the fields of anticoagulation and atrial fibrillation. Some are free, some are not. Austin Heart CME 12 hours Primarily for cardiologists, but great learning material for all health care workers. Baylor College of Medicine's Online CME Courses 139 courses, 108 hours All specialties, all subjects. Ideal for most health care workers. BioCritique .5 per activity (over 900 activities totaling more than 400 hours of CME) Keep up with advances in biomedical research. Sounds boring, but some great articles as well as interactive presentations. Each paper is linked to a collection of related resources including PowerPoint presentations, interactive assessments, clinical trials and related research literature, as well as drug and patent information. Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections Site (AHRQ) 9 modules totaling 9 hours Very relevant material for Respiratory Therapists as well as Emergency Medical personnel. Includes West Nile Virus, SARS, and Category 1 Biological Agents. Bioterrorism Practical Readiness Network (Bio-PRN) 1.5 for each disease (12 diseases totaling 18 hours). CA - A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 0.5 to 1.0 per article. About 16 hours of credit. Sixteen issues are available. CancerEducation.com 0.25 hours each (total of 4.25 hours). CancerNetwork.com 31 activities offering 58 hours CardioVillage Up to 158 CE credits available. Great refresher courses on EKG’s and more. Also many advanced topics. Very easy to navigate site. Suitable to RRT and RN. CDC Training and Continuing Education OnLine 26 courses offering about 69 hours Courses on public health and preventive medicine topics with an emphasis on vaccination. CEMedicus more than 9000 courses CEMedicus offers access and free credit for more than 9000 CME courses. The site allows you to search by medical topic, disease, instruction type or content host. CENE (Council for Excellence in Neuroscience Education) 43 hours available Center For Clinical Excellence 12 hours Nellcor and Puritan Bennett offer accredited online continuing education courses for nurses and respiratory care practitioners. These educational programs focus on cardiopulmonary physiology and disease, ventilator management strategies and relevant technology. The self-paced courses include convenient post-testing and a printable certificate upon course completion. NOTE: Perioperative Patient Temperature not approved by AARC. Cervical Health Online 4.5 HOURS CE-University.org 29 courses offering 0.5 to 3.0 hours each (total of 38.5 hours Subject areas include: Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, Diabetes, Immunology, Emergency Medicine, Psychiatric Disorders, Healthcare Policy/Systems, Biologics and Ophthalmology. Childhood Asthma and Allergies 2 hours Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education 37 hours Another good source for nearly any specialty in the medical field covering a variety of subjects. CliniciansCME 11 activities awarding 1.0 to 4.0 hours; total of 16 hours. Some newer courses are: Managing the Daily Burden of COPD; Management of Comorbid Depression and Anxiety; Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia; Today's Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of COPD; New Insights into the Management of COPD; Managing Hypertension in Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease; and Current Approaches to the Management of ADHD CME-CE.com 4 hours. Four courses: Interrelationship Between Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder; Considering the Safety of Commonly Prescribed Fluoroquinolones in Respiratory Tract Infections; Evolution in the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections; and Managing Serious Respiratory Tract Infections. cmecorner.com 1.0 to 3.0 per course (total of about 12 courses offering, 21 hours) You will find courses in the areas of cardiology (mostly lipids and metabolic syndrome), pulmonology (COPD), GI (reflux), rheumatology, and psychiatry (medication compliance). CMEdiscovery.com 9 hours Two courses in dermatology: Acne Vulgaris: Focus on Optimal Management, and ROSACEA: Current Perspectives on Medical Management; three courses in psychiatry: Panic Anxiety: Understanding its Nature and Nurturing Recovery, Diagnosis and Clinical Approaches for Bipolar Disorder in the Primary Care Setting, and Efficacy as the Foundation of Therapy in Bipolar Depression; and one about antihistamines: Metabolic Fate of Pharmaceuticals: Focus on Slow Metabolizers. CMEonCD 19 hours Although this site is called CMEonCD, the instruction is online. You can also order a CD containing the same instruction. There are 4 programs, each containing multiple short presentations, either in slide-audio or pdf format. They are: Management of Acid-Related Disorders; Treatment Strategies for Venous Thromboembolism; Practical Management of Chronic Stable Angina and Hypertension; and Anemia in the Critically Ill. CME Pipeline 6 hours This site contains: The Evolution of ARV Therapy: Applying Clinical Trial Data to Optimize HAART in HIV Management (2 hours of CME); and Growing Resistance in the Hospital Setting & Strategies to Help Control or Prevent It, 4 one-hour programs from the 42nd Annual Interscience Conference on Anti-Microbial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) Meeting CME-TODAY (MEBN.net) Uncounted Very nice new site with relevance to RRT and RN. Easy to navigate, most lessons are 7 CEU’s each. Definitely worth checking out. The sections are: Allergists, Cardiologists, Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care, Hospitalists, Nephrologists, Primary Care Physicians and Special Reports. CME- USA 4 hours This site has one course for ENTs: Occupational Hearing Loss, Temporal Bone Anatomy and Facial Flaps and 2 courses for FPs: Understanding Allergy, Easy Ways to Help Your Patients and Common Problems in Ear Nose and Throat. There are some very nice videos of ENT examinations. Consultant.Live.com 38 cases for 19 hours; 8 symposia for about 16 hours. Each issue of this online journal presents a photograph and accompanying clinical information for two patients. The program asks you to select a diagnosis from a list of possibilities, then follows with a didactic presentation based on the correct diagnosis. You must complete both cases in each issue to earn one hour of CME credit. You will also find 9 text-only symposia on various topics in pdf format. Contemporary OB-Gyn 12 hours Contemporary Pediatrics 11 hours Contemporary Urology 11 available Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism 3 hours depression-anxiety.com 2.5 hours DermUniversity (dermatology) 3 hours Diabetes Roundtable 4 courses, 8 hours DiagnosticImaging.com 2 hours eNeonatal Review 0.5 credits each month (17 issues offering total of 8.5 credits). Each month, participants receive an email discussing a current topic in neonatal critical care. For example, the February 2005 issue deals with the issue of thromboembolic disease in neonates, usually associated with venous or arterial catheters. FamilyPractice.com 60 hours Family Practice Update 20 hours Fluid Therapy 7 courses, 12.5 hours Titles include: Current Concepts in Fluid Therapy; Fluid Management of Critically Ill Patients; Improving Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients through Fluid Resuscitation; Fluid Management in High-Risk Surgical Patients; Intraoperative Colloid Choices in the Cardiovascular Surgery; Postoperative Colloid Choices in the Cardiovascular Surgery; and Evidence-Based Fluid Therapy: Strategies for Cardiac Surgery Patients. Foundation for Better Health Care (FHBC) 5 courses, 7.5 hours The activities are: Enhancing Care Through Communication for Managed Care Clinicians; Enhancing Care Through Communication, Management of Menopause; HIV in Women; Considerations for Treating Select Groups of HIV-Infected Patients; and Partners in Practice News (Case Consultations in Rheumatic Diseases). freeCME.com more than 400 hours This site offers free CME for many medical specialties and in many medical topics. The site allows you to search for courses in your specialty or area of interest. GeneticSolutions.com 7 hours George Washington University (GWUMC) 24 hours Geriatric Times 4 hours Heart Rhythm Society (formerly North American Societ of Pacing and Electrophysiology) Grand Rounds and Webcasts 10 courses, 1 hours each. You will find lectures and cases dealing with Atrial Fibrillation (4), Ablation (1), Basic Science (3), Heart Failure (1) and Sudden Cardiac Death (1). Hemochromatosis for Health Care Professionals 2.5 hours HemostasisCME.org 13 hours Hepatitis C Training 2.5 hours HormoneCME (Council on Hormone Education) 29.5 hours Hospital for Special Surgery CME Online Programs 2 hours Ultrasound and MRI in the Early Diagnosis of Joint Damage in Rheumatoid Arthritis; and Combining a Biologic Agent with Methotrexate in the Treatment of RA. Imedex 36 hours Advances in the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (12.75 hours); Perspectives in Melanoma VIII (10.25 hours); Focus on Myeloma & Plasma Cell Disorders (12.5 hours); and World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer 2004 (CME hours not stated). You must view these lectures using Internet Explorer. ImproMED 4 hours, glaucoma related Interactive Grand Rounds from Medsite 1.0 per course. Total of 41 hours available. Produced by Baylor University. Each course consists of a very brief case presentation followed by 10 multiple choice questions. The answers to the questions are found in an article that reviews the medical condition discussed. The subject areas are Allergy and Immunology, Arthritis, Breast Cancer, Cardiac and Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiac Surgery, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Diabetes, Dyslipidemias, Epilepsy, Gastroenterology, Hypertension, Infectious Diseases, Intraocular Hypertension and Glaucoma, Mineral Metabolism, Osteoporosis. Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Psychiatric Disorders, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sleep Disorders and Transplantation Immunology. International AIDS Society - USA: Cases on the Web 13 hours InterNetCME (Texas Academy of Family Physicians) 17 hours This site includes presentations on Myocardial Infarction; Ethics and End of Life Care; Medico-Legal Issues; Pediatric Asthma; Migraine; Allergic Rhinitis; Treatment of Depression and Sexual Side Effects; Erectile Dysfunction; Pre-Term Labor and pPROM; Diabetes; and Adult Asthma. You may download and print the slides and follow along with the presentation. IPRO CME Online 7 hours PowerPoint or Word presentations on a variety of medical topics, including: Cardiac Care Updates 2003; Cardiovascular Disease Prevention & Management in Patients with Diabetes; Cultural Competency Training to Improve Diabetes care in African-Americans; New Strategies for Managing Community - Acquired Pneumonia; Update in Adult Asthma Management; and Update in Pediatric Asthma. Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine 166 hours Click on CME Programs to get started. The site offers pdf-based or slide-show courses in 19 medical specialty areas. Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine Journal 20 issues, 65 hours available. Click on Journal to find 20 issues of Advanced Studies in Medicine. Each issue offers a set of CME Clinical Evaluation Articles (3 Credit Hours). In addition, each issue has a "Case of the Month" offering 0.25 hours of credit. The most recent issue (November/December 2004) contains articles on the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in Adults; Lyme Borreliosis; Involuntary Weight Loss in the Elderly; and Gastroparesis. The "Case of the Month" features a patient with an unknown skin lesion. JointandBone.org (Rheumatology Online) 1.0 or 2.0 each (total of 5 hours) Joslin Diabetes Center WebCME Activities 3 hours Journal of Clinical Psychiatry CME Online 48 hours LipidHealth 16 courses offering a total of 19.5 hours. Masters of Pediatrics 4 lectures, total of 8 hours MedCases Stroke Prevention and Management 4 hours MedEDcenter 5 courses, 6 AARC credits available Asthma guidelines, Heliox, and CPAP make up this site with links sponsored by Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and B&B Medical Technologies, Inc. Medical Education Group 11 hours Click on Online CME/CME near the top of the page to find courses in cardiology, diabetes, oncology, primary care and women's health. MedicalRounds 638 hours MedicalRounds webcasts multimedia presentations and conferences for many contributing medical groups. Many Canadian medical schools have contributed lectures to this series. All talks were originally presented at grand rounds of quality educational institutions or at accredited medical meetings. In addition, the website maintains an extensive database of hyperlinks to other free multimedia medical presentations available on the web. Check for credit status in U.S. MediCom Worldwide 17 hours There are now 15 courses in psychiatry (mostly about treatment of psychosis) and 2 in gastroenterology. MedPage Today 0.25 hours for each news story. Up to 15 new stories covered each day Want to keep up with current medical news? Don’t have time to knock out all your credits at once? Try this. Each day, important medical events and studies are summarized and presented in the form of news stories as brief (0.25 hours) CME activities. You may choose from the main stories of the day or from a list of stories geared towards your specialty. Very nice and easy to navigate site. MedPix Radiology Teaching Files, Cases and Medical Image Database 55 hours (220 cases) After login, click on Case of the Week. You will find (presently) 220 cases, each offering 0.25 hours of CME credit. Each case gives a brief history, summary of findings and images and asks you to make the diagnosis. MedSiteCME 25 hours in 10 specialty areas Very easy to navigate site with content in many areas including nursing and respiratory. Appears to have much more content than the stated numbers above. MedSynergy 0.5 to 1.0 hour per course; 19 courses totaling 16.25 hours. You must use Internet Explorer to access this site. On your first visit to MedSynergy, you will need to register and wait for a password to arrive by email. The courses are on a variety of medical subjects; about half are in pediatrics. Some topics are: Bone Marrow Transplantation; Club Drugs; Pediatric Kidney Transplantation; and Children as Research Subjects. MeetingCast.com 9 hours Meniscus Limited 1.0 to 1.25 hours (about 10 hours total). MentalHealthCME.com 14 hours This markedly expanded site now has courses on depression (7 courses), anxiety disorders (5 courses), bipolar disorder (1 course) and eating disorders (1 courses). Instruction is oriented towards the primary care practitioner. MerckMedicus CME Credit Program for Searching and Researching 5 hours per calendar year. You can earn 1 CME credit for every hour you spend researching medical questions, reading online medical references, or gathering information for patients on MerckMedicus. Full details are at Learn More about the MerckMedicus/AMA Self-Directed CME Credit Program. MMWR Continuing Education Programs (Centers for Disease Control)118 courses, 40 hours. This site contains the pdf versions of 19 current MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports) articles. You download and read the articles, then submit your quiz answers online. Recent articles include: Treating Opportunistic Infections Among HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents; Treating Opportunistic Infections Among HIV-Exposed and Infected Children; Newborn Screening for Cystic Fibrosis; Biologic Terrorism: A Guidebook for Surveillance and Case Management; Diagnosis and Management of Foodborne Illnesses; and Applying Public Health Strategies to Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases. Mount Sinai School of Medicine Online CME (MSSMTV) 82 hours Variety of subjects covered on this site. Many specialty related including HIV/AIDS and Oncology. MSA Today (Metabolic Syndrome Alliance) 2 hours Two downloadable pdfs on aspects of the metabolic syndrome, diabetes and cardiovascular risk. National Diabetes Education Initiative (NDEI) 20.75 hours Clinical Insights in Diabetes is a newsletter containing reviews on the management of type 2 diabetes. When you sign up, you will receive your newsletter monthly and apply for credit at year end (12 hours). National Marrow Donor Program 1.0 hour National Pain Education Council (NPEC) 10.5 hours National Quality Management Program (Tricare) 13 hours The National Quality Management Program (NQMP) is contracted by TRICARE to produce studies of relevance to the Department of Defense and the military health system. The studies focus on the Military Health System: Adolescent Immunization; Ischemic Heart Disease; Asthma Care; Childhood Immunization; Breast Cancer Screening; Cervical Cancer Screening; Chlamydia Testing for Females; Tobacco Use Cessation; Diabetes Mellitus Care; Depressive Disorder Care; Management of Dyslipidemia; and Post Deployment Health Care Evaluation and Management. Network for Oncology Communication & Research (NOCR) 15 hours NNPTC Online Case Series (National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers) 2.5 hours The Oncologist 246 hours There are courses on various hematology and oncology areas. (The number of credits in each area is shown in parentheses.) Acute and Chronic Leukemias and Multiple Myeloma (12); Breast Cancer (42); Cancer Biology (5); Cancer Diagnostics (2); Cancer Medicine: Case Discussion (2); Clinical Pharmacology (33); Epidemiology, Access, and Outcomes (1); FDA (2); Fundamentals of Cancer Medicine (17); Gastrointestinal Cancer (10); Genitourinary Cancer (6); Gynecologic Oncology (3); Head and Neck Cancers (3); Hepatobiliary (6); Lung Cancer (18); Lymphoma (7); Medical Ethics (1); Melanoma and Cutaneous Malignancies (4); Neuro-Oncology (3); Pediatric Oncology (7); Prevention (1); Radiation Oncology (12); Sarcomas (3); Schwartz Center Rounds (27); and Symptom Management and Supportive Care (29). Optima Educational Solutions 5 hours You will find 3 web conferences. Subjects include: Optimizing Insomnia Management in Special Populations; Exploring Type 2 Diabetes and Insulin Resistance; and Managing the Treatment of Obesity. OR-Live Surgical Video Archives 102 hours A set of very nice programs of surgical procedures. Each program combines a didactic slide-video lecture with extensive footage of the surgical procedure. Subject areas include: Cardiovascular or Cardiothoracic (22), Gastric Surgery (7), Neurosurgery (10), OB/GYN (6), Oncology (13), Ophthalmology (1), Otolaryngology (4), Orthopedic (19), Pediatrics (4), Pulmonology (1), Radiology(4), Urology (7) and Vascular (4). Orthopedics Hyperguide 50 hours per year This site contains tutorials, online lectures, and test questions in: Adult Orthopedics, Basic Science, Foot and Ankle, Hand, Pediatric Orthopedics, Spine, Sports Medicine, Trauma, and Tumor. Tutorials focus on clinical and radiographic features, diagnosis, risk factors, evaluation, treatment, and outcomes. Tutorials give access to clinical photographs, radiographs, and magnetic resonance images. Online lectures simulate the lecture experience. Test questions serve as practice for board exams or recertification. Orthopedics Supersite 12 hours Osteoporosis Point of Care 15 hours Pain.com 66 hours Some topics include: Arthritis Pain, Cancer Pain, Breakthrough Pain and Perioperative Pain, Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy; Trigeminal Neuralgia and Other Facial Neuralgias; Focus on Long-Acting Opioids; and Optimizing Opioid Therapy for Persistent Nonmalignant Pain: Management of Back Pain. Pain Management Grand Rounds 13 hours Thirteen slide-video lectures on aspects of pain management: Some newer courses are: Pharmacologic Management of Pain; Legal Issues in Pain Medicine; Pain Management in the Post-Surgical Patient; and Pain Management: Geriatrics. PanicAnxietyUniversity 2.0 hours Passy-Muir 5 hours AARC approved and also approved for Speech Language Pathologists Patient Care 23 hours Each issue of this online journal has a single article accredited for CME. Recent articles include: Contemporary management of acute MI; New guidelines spell out approach to chronic kidney disease; The challenge of osteoporosis in elderly men; What do abnormal liver function test results really mean? Obstructive sleep apnea: Don't minimize the risks; and Herb-drug interactions: What physicians need to know. Pediatric Grand Rounds 55 hours Almost every week, a lecture is videotaped and archived at the site within a few days. Some recent lectures include: Midwest Symposium on Bone Health; Bone Anthropology; Root Cause Analysis in Healthcare; Behavioral Genetics; Child Abuse in the Courtroom; Circumcision; Historical, Religious, and Current Perspectives; and Community Acquired MRSA. PedsEducation.org 16.5 hours Recent courses include: Bioterrorism: What the Frontline Physician Needs to Know; Killer Poisons; Maintaining Confidentiality with Teenage Patients; Drowning and Near Drowning; and Sports Related Concussion in Pediatrics. PeerView Press Online CME 12 hours These are courses in a variety of medical areas including, but not limited to: psychiatry, oncology, HIV/AIDS, cardiology, obesity, and diabetes. The URL I have selected takes you to the Most Recent PeerView CME Activities. If you do not find what you are looking for, use the various search boxes in the left frame to search by CME provider, medical topic or keyword, Penn CME 36 hours A group of courses on varying subjects, mostly internal medicine, mostly offering 0.75 to 2.0 hours. You will also find two modules titled Succeeding as an Executive: Wharton Executive Development Series. These two modules offer a total of 11 hours of CME credit. PowerPak Communications 25 hours This site offers about 17 programs, each supported by a different pharmaceutical company. The courses offering CME credit are mixed in with those offering credit for pharmacists and nurses, so physicians need to be careful to choose courses with "ACCME" accreditation. Primary Care Network 13.75 hours Click on "Headache Programs" to find eleven text presentations on various aspects of headache. Princeton Media Associates CME Forum 12 courses offering a total of 13.25 credit hours. You will find courses with content in Cardiology, Infectious Diseases, Musculoskeletal, and Neurology. However, most courses are related to the treatment of epilepsy. Projects In Knowledge 22.5 hours The newest offering is the Advanced Certificate Program in the Management of Chronic Hepatitis B, designed to educate you on all aspects of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection (18 credits). Instruction is by a combination of online newsletters and an interactive CD-ROM. Also, three online courses: Striving to Achieve Improved Outcomes: An Integrated Approach to HCV Treatment; Effective Side Effect Management in Anti-HCV Therapy; and Emerging Therapies in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Proteasome Inhibition: A New Approach to the Treatment of Hematologic Diseases 4.0 hours psychCME 1.0 hour per activity (39 courses totaling 39 hours). psychLINK 1.5 hours per lecture (68 courses offering 102 hours). Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Symposium 5.75 hours Ten leading researchers and clinicians present data on a range of current topics from pathophysiology to future directions in disease management. Radiology InfoNet 4 hours Rapid Deployment CME 0.5 to 1.5 hours per activity (total of 17 hours in 17 modules). Rapid Deployment CME emphasizes providing information to providers quickly. There are now 17 modules for non-UPMC physicians: Anticoagulation Therapy; Appropriate Use of Meperidine; Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections; Central Line Complications and Patient Safety; Current Controversies of Hormone Replacement Therapy; Disclosure: How to Talk with Patients and Their Families; Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Acoustic Neuromas; Hand Hygiene for Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh; Hand Hygiene Technique; Hepatitis A; Influenza: Prevention and Treatment; Serono Symposia International 1.0 each (21 courses offering 21 credits) 21 PowerPoint or pdf presentations in the areas of multiple sclerosis (8), reproductive health (7), endocrinology (3) and dermatology (3). You can view the text narration along with very attractive graphic slides. A nice feature is that you may download the entire presentation and view it as a PowerPoint or Word file at your leisure Studies in Nuclear Cardiology 1.0 per issue (0.5 hours per case). Total of 8.0 hours available. StudyMaker.com 12 hours Highly recommended for Emergency Department personnel. A single course, Use of Pretest Probability to Reduce Unnecessary Test Ordering in the Emergency Department. "Pretest probability is the probability of a disease or outcome that exists in an individual patient prior to any objective testing." TheHeart.org Varies A rather long sign up process ThyroidToday.com 1.0 per course (8 courses for total of 11 hours) TobaccoCME.com 18 courses offering a total of 16 hours. This site is devoted to techniques to help your patients stop smoking. Courses are divided into 4 groups. Each group of courses offers up to 4 hours: Core Curriculum; Advanced Topics in General Medicine; Advanced Topics in Pediatrics; and OB/Gyn. Tri-Athlete (Cyberounds) 9 hours From the main page, click on the "Free CME tRi-Athlete" logo to enter. tRiAthlete is an interactive program on the treatment and management of rheumatoid arthritis. Like a triathlon, there are three competitive events -- swimming, cycling, and running. Each corresponds to an increasing level of disease -- mild, moderate, and severe, respectively. Tufts Health Care Institute 10 hours A set of ten online courses in the area of Quality Care, Cost-Effectiveness and Care Management. Follow the "Online Learning" links from the home page to the registration page. These modules explore the roles of clinicians as managers of care and stewards of resources, and present strategies, tools and processes that providers can draw upon. Tufts Pain Management 4.5 hours Current Issues In Pain Management for the Primary Care Provider assists the Primary Care Practitioner in the management of pain associated with common primary care pain presentations. 3 modules are available: Acute Pain: A Multi-Modal Management Approach; Arthritis & Musculoskeletal Pain: Keys to Diagnosis and Management; and Low Back Pain: Management Across a Spectrum of Presentations. University of Alabama at Birmingham 80 courses offering a total of about 70 credit hours This site offers courses in many medical areas: Cardiovascular Disease, Clinical Prediction, Dermatology. Endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Geriatrics, Hematology, Oncology, Immunizations, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Neurology. Nuclear Medicine, Pain And Insomnia, Patient Adherence, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Respiratory Disease, Urology and Women's Health. You can earn credit for some UAB courses without fee at CEMedicus. University of California at Davis (UCDHS) Continuing Medical Education Online 1.0 per lecture (total of 56 hours). Lectures on general medical subjects. Each lecture was originally presented as a video teleconference. Some recent lectures are Current Trends and Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care; Primary Biliary Cirrhosis; Psychopharmacologic Principles & Methods for Primary Care; Contrast Medium-Induced Nephrotoxicity; and Update on the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). To receive CME credit, print and mail or fax the evaluation form. University of Florida: Caring for the Older Adult 1.0 per module (total of 18 hours There are now three sets of 6 modules each. Each set targets areas of health care for the older person. The newest set is Caring for the Older Adult III. You will also find Caring for the Older Adult II and Caring for the Older Adult I. University of Michigan 28 activities offering a total of 31 credit-hours. 22 text-only course guidelines on common medical conditions. You will also find slide-audio lectures on various topics; some are: Cardiothoracic Surgery: The Role of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide; Update on Primary Care Management for Congestive Heart Failure; Improving Patient Safety in Hospitals; and Migraine Management. Virginia Disaster Readiness Center 8.0 hours Free (until 9/30/05) This training is designed to meet the OSHA guidelines issued in December, 2004 for hospital-based first receivers of victims of disaster events. Operations Disaster Life Support online course consists of 9 modules. Virginia Geriatrics Grand Rounds Lecture Series 1.0 hour per lecture; about 30 lectures; Conferences: 0.75 hour per lecture; total of 19 lectures. WebSurg 0.5 or 1.0 per course (presently 17 courses offering 13.5 hours). This site focuses on the principles and practices of minimally invasive surgery. Courses feature didactic instruction and streaming video presentations of the surgical procedures. Some of the procedures shown are adrenalectomy, right colectomy, sigmoidectomy for diverticulitis, cholecystectomy, gastric bypass for obesity, hiatal hernia and perforated ulcer. The newest course is Epidemiology of Colon Cancer. |
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This list of online providers offer CEU and CME credits by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) as well as other agencies. You should verify the accrediting agency and acceptance by your state’s licensing board. Some sites are simple to use while others are a little more tricky to navigate. We will be updating this list periodically as we find more sites offering free credits. All disciplines are well represented and usually can be found on some of the larger sites (ie, MedScape.com). |
