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ACEP-EMedHome.com
Last visited...5/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours..."Over 130 hours per year." Only ACEP members may
participate.
Awarded by...American College of Emergency Physicians.
Cost.........$79 per year
Instruction Type...See ===>
Target Audience....ER.
Educational material last updated....Daily to Monthly.
Financial support...None Stated.
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ACEP-EMedHome.com is a combined
effort of ACEP and EMedHome.com, limited to ACEP members. Your subscription
includes: Video Lectures from the annual ACEP Scientific Assembly and Advanced Pediatric EM Assembly
to view on your computer or your iPod or other portable video device; Audio CME Podcasts from the annual ACEP Scientific Assembly and the Advanced Pediatric Assembly to download to your PC or MP3 player; EMCast:
monthly Emergency Medicine Podcast; Annals of Emergency Medicine Monthly CME program; On-Line Lectures CME
Program; Bimonthly Feature Article CME Program; Biweekly Clinical Cases; Weekly Clinical Pearls; Podcasts of top EM lectures from around the country; PDF
Database of Protocols, Algorithms, Sample Orders, and Guidelines available to download, print, and distribute; Question of the Day: Sent to your "inbox" each morning; and
an archive of all previous Questions of the Day, and many other tools to help you with the clinical practice of Emergency Medicine.
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Peer
VII (Physician's Evaluation and Educational Review in Emergency Medicine) 
Last visited...5/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...50.
Awarded by...American College of Emergency Physicians.
Cost.........$211 (ACEP members log in to see discount).
Instruction Type...(Probably) Question-and-Answer.
Target Audience....ER
Educational material last updated....2009.
CME Credit Expires...
Financial support...None Stated.
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PEER VII helps you assess your knowledge of the core content—the EM Model—and pinpoint areas you need to study. PEER VII Online has all the content of the print format and it most closely simulates the computer-based test-taking experience. The program randomizes the questions and gives you a report on how you did in each category. You'll be able to practice by category before answering the questions in CME mode, and you'll be able get your results instantly.
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Emergency Department Crowding: High-Impact Solutions

Last visited...5/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...2.
Awarded by...American College of Emergency Physicians.
Cost.........Free to ACEP members.
Instruction Type...Text-Only
Target Audience....ER.
Educational material last updated....5/2008.
Financial support...None Stated.
CME Credit Expires...July 24, 2011.
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From the page, Emergency
Medicine Crowding and Boarding, click on Emergency Department
Crowding: High-Impact Solutions to open a 14-page pdf file. Read the content and
answer 8 questions to claim your credit.
On completion of this activity, you should be able to:
1. Define emergency department crowding.
2. Discuss causes of emergency department crowding.
3. Describe the consequences of crowding.
4. Delineate actions that can help eliminate crowding.
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APLS (Pediatric Emergency Medicine Resource)
Case Presentations 
Last visited...5/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...1.0 hour per case (total of 9 hours).
Awarded by....American College of Emergency Physicians.
Cost..........Not Stated.
Instruction Type...Case-Based (but not interactive).
Target Audience....ER, PED.
Educational material last updated...Not Stated.
Financial support...None Stated.
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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.
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APLS (Pediatric Emergency Medicine Resource)
"Check Your Knowledge" Online CME 
Last visited...5/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...22 modules, each offering 1.0 hour (22 hours).
Awarded by....American College of Emergency Physicians.
Cost..........$15.
Instruction Type...(Probably) Case-Based Interactive.
Target Audience....ER, PED.
Educational material last updated...August 1, 2005
Financial support...None Stated.
CME Credit Expires...November 30, 2010.
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The current modules 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.
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eACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life
Support)
Last visited...5/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...6.0.
Awarded by...American College of Emergency Physicians.
Cost.........$130.
Instruction Type...Not Stated.
Target Audience....ER (And all medical professionals who are required to be credentialed in advanced cardiac life
support).
Educational material last updated....Not Stated.
Financial support...None Stated.
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eACLS™ covers the ten advanced cardiac life support topics required for certification:
* Acute coronary syndromes
* AED use
* Asystole
* Bradycardia
* Narrow complex tachycardia
* Pulseless electrical activity
* Respiratory arrest
* Stroke
* Ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia
* Wide complex tachycardia
The online course takes an average of four hours to complete (approximately 20 minutes per topic). After completing all 10 sections of the course, a 50-question final exam follows. A score of 80% or higher on the final exam is required.
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Focus On (American College of Emergency
Physicians)
Last visited...5/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...1.0 per article (36 hours).
Awarded by...American College of Emergency Physicians.
Cost.........Not stated.
Instruct. Type...Text-Only (some articles are available as podcasts).
Target Audience....ER
Educational material last updated....4/2010.
Financial support...None Stated.
CME Credit Expires...3 years after posting
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Some newer topics are: Spinal Epidural Abscess; Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation in the Emergency Department; Toxic Mushroom Ingestions; Emergent Evaluation and Management of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease; The Observation Option for Acute Otitis Media in the Emergency Department;
and Malaria.
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Emergency
Medicine Practice and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice
Last visited...2/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...4 credits per month per journal (48 credits/per annual subscription). These are two separate journals.
Awarded by....EB Medicine.
Cost...........$299 per 1-year subscription. Individual issues may be purchased for $30.
Instruction Type...Text and Graphics.
Target Audiences....ER, PED.
Educational material last updated...Monthly.
Financial Support...None.
CME credit expires: AMA Cat 1: 3 years from published date, AAFP Prescribed: 1 year from published date, ACEP Category 1: 3 years from published date, AOA Category 2B: 3 years from published date.
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Emergency
Medicine Practice and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice
are online journals focusing on one topic per issue, most often based
on a single complaint; within that topic, ED evaluation (including
history and findings), differential diagnosis, diagnostic studies,
treatment (including pharmacological therapies), special circumstances,
controversies, common pitfalls and patient disposition are covered.
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Medscape
Emergency Medicine
Last visited...4/2010.
Reviewed by... Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours... Varies from time to time.
Awarded by....Medscape and 50 other sponsoring organizations.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics, Text-Only, Slide-Audio Lecture, Slide-Video Lecture and Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....ER.
Educational material last updated...New activities posted daily.
Financial Support...Many academic, specialty, and commercial sources as well as
self-supported by Medscape.
Expiration of CME Credit...Credit for most activities expires one year after posting.
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CME activities of special interest to emergency 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. (See especially eMedicine CME Case Presentations.)
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.
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ThrombosisClinic.com
Last visited...5/2010.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...About 26 courses, each offering 0,5 to 6.5 hours, for a total of about
49 hours of
credit.
Awarded by....Elsevier Office of Continuing Medical Education.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Slide-Audio/Video, Text-Audio, Slide-Text, and
Text-Only.
Target Audience...CARD, ER, SURG, CRITICAL CARE.
Educational material last updated....2009.
Financial Support...sanofi-aventis and various other pharmaceutical companies.
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This site is
for physicians (especially cardiologists, ER specialists and surgeons) who have an interest in the prevention and management of
thrombosis. The newest activities include: New Anticoagulants for Prevention and Treatment of Venous
Thromboembolism; ThrombosisClinic Vol. 3, No. 2 (new information on how to treat patients with acute coronary syndrome); and
Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke (efficacy and safety of antiplatelet agents, anticoagulant agents, and mechanical methods for thromboprophylaxis).
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