CMEList.com - Online CME: Emergency Medicine

CMEInfo - Programs in Emergency Medicine Last visited...8/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours... 15.0. Awarded by.... University of Washington School of Medicine. Cost.......... $1095. Instruction Type... Video-DVD. Target Audience...ER, RAD. Educational material...2008. Financial Support...None Stated. Expiration of CME credit...October 31, 2011.

After viewing Emergency Radiology (University of Washington School of Medicine), you should be better able to explain the important clinical questions that need to be answered to optimize treatment for the most common types of emergency-related abnormalities; discuss the “what, when, and how” of imaging in relation to specific topics in emergency medicine; and discuss pitfalls in emergency-related diagnosis and how to avoid them.

Martin A Samuels Neurology Review for Primary Care Physicians Credit hours...25. Awarded by....Johns Hopkins. Cost...........$485 to 695..  Instruction Type...Video DVD, Video MP4. Target Audience...FP, IM, ER. Educational material last updated...2010. Financial support...None Stated.

Martin A Samuels Neurology Review for Primary Care Physicians This activity begins with coverage of functional neuroanatomy and the neurological exam. Building from this base, Dr. Samuels surveys the common neurological conditions that primary care physicians manage such as dizziness, movement disorders, cognitive disorders, headache, and stroke. Throughout the program Dr. Samuels provides guidelines to the accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Topics covered include: Functional Neuroanatomy Review; The Neurological Examination; Movement Disorders; Dizziness; Headaches; Coma and Disorders of Consciousness; Degenerative and Demyelinating Diseases; Stroke; Peripheral Neuropathy; Neurocardiology; Neurohematology; and Selected Topics in Medical Neurology.

Practical Reviews in Emergency Medicine (Sponsored Link) Last visited...8/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours... 36 per year (3.0 per month). Awarded by.... Johns Hopkins. Cost.......... $304 per year. Instruction Type... Text-Only; Audio. Target Audience...ER. Educational material updated monthly. Financial Support...None Stated. Expiration of CME credit...Two years after date of publication.

Practical Reviews in Emergency Medicine keeps you informed of the most important research and clinical findings published in Emergency Medicine each month.  Each issue contains: downloadable audio of 10-12 articles summarized and reviewed in each issue; downloadable PDF of written reviews with Take-Home Pearls that reinforce the audio material and give you a valuable reference for instant recall by subject; and self-assessment online quizzes to highlight key points and reinforce what you've learned.

American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Last visited...5/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.	American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has activities and courses described in the sections below:
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.	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.
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.	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.
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.	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.
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.	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.
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.	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.
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.	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.
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	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.

Cleveland Clinic Emergency Medicine Last visited...3/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD Credit hours....18 activities offering a total of about 12 hours. Awarded by....Cleveland Clinic. Cost..........Free. Instruct. Type...Slide-Video and Slide-Audio Lectures, Podcasts, Text-Only. Target Audiences...ER. Educational material last updated....2010. Financial Support...Some activities have commercial support. CME Credit Expires...2 years after posting.

Some recent activities include: The Importance of Platelets and Platelet Response in Acute Coronary Syndromes; The Current State of Antiplatelet Therapy in ACS: The Data and "Real Life"; Novel Antiplatelet Therapies in ACS; Platelet Response in Acute Coronary Syndrome Panel Discussion; and The Importance of Platelets and Platelet Response in Acute Coronary Syndromes.

CMEDownload.com Last visited...7/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...About 600 CME-credit lectures offering a total of about 300 hours. (Also many other non-credit lectures). Awarded by....American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Cost...........Yearly subscription costs $350 for online access only or $449 for online access plus a DVD of all lectures. Instruction Type...Slide-Video Lectures; also video podcast and audio podcast. Target Audiences....ER. Educational material last updated....2010. Financial Support...None Stated. Credit expires: 3 years after posting.

CMEDownload.com records lectures delivered at live meetings and presents them in a wide-screen side-by-side format. Currently about 600 CME-credit lectures are available on the website with about 300 hours of Category 1 CME. Lectures focus on emergency medicine, trauma, critical care and pediatrics as well as special courses in EKG reading, ultrasonography, airway management and emergency procedures. In addition, ongoing short video podcasts are also included. You will also find, in the Premium Section, links to a number of other courses for ER personnel, available for additional fees.

EMedHome LLSA CME Program Last visited...5/2010. Credit hours...35 for each set of articles. Awarded by....American College of Emergency Physicians. Cost..........$75 (credit only). Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics, Question-and-Answer.. Target Audience....ER. Educational material last updated...2009. Financial support...None Stated.

The American Board of Emergency Medicine's Continuous Certification (LLSA) program requires the reading of designated articles each year. In order to maintain board certification, Emergency Physicians must complete the annual Lifelong Learning Self-Assessment (LLSA) test on the ABEM website based upon the contents of these articles. eMedHome offers access to the 20 articles required by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and 35 hours of CME credit for reading the articles and answering the related questions.

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.

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.

EM Practice Guidelines Update Last visited...2/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...1 credit per month per journal (12 credits/per annual subscription).  Awarded by....EB Medicine. Cost...........$99 per 1-year subscription or free with a subscription to Emergency Medicine Practice. Instruction Type...Text and Graphics, Guideline. Target Audiences....ER. Educational material last updated...Monthly. Financial Support...None. CME credit expires: 3 years from published date.

EM Practice Guidelines Update aims to meet the need of emergency physicians to stay current with practice guidelines that were designed to assist clinical decision making in the emergency department. Guidelines presented are from a variety of specialty sources. They are analytically reviewed using a systematic approach; when indicated, editorial commentary is provided.

Harvard Medical School Online CME Last visited...2/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...58 courses; total 177.5 hours. (Most courses are 1 to 5 hours; there are two extensive ER courses, 20 hours each). Awarded by....Harvard Medical School. Cost for Credit......$20 per hour. (The review courses cost about $10 per hour. Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive. Target Audiences...ER, IM, FP, GEN, GERO. Educational material last updated...2009. Financial Support...None Stated.

The largest activities, in terms of hours, are the Emergency Medicine Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) Reviews for 2005 and 2006, each offering 20 hours. There are 13 activities concerned with genetics and 6 in geriatrics. Most of the remaining courses are in general medicine.

HITeducation.com Last visited…8/2010 Reviewed by…Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours…3 activities offering a total of 3.5 hours. Awarded by…The France Foundation. Cost for Credit…Free. Instruction Type… Podcast, Slide-Video Lecture, Text-Only. Target Audience.... ER, HEMA, CRITICAL CARE (and other physicians who manage heparin-induced thrombocytopenia). Educational material last updated...2009. Financial Support...GlaxoSmithKline.

HITeducation.com focuses on heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) risk factors, presentation, diagnosis and management, and therapeutic options. There are 3 sections: The Peer-to-Peer Audio Podcast Series (6-10 minute clips; 1.5 hour of credit) "features timely, clinically relevant topics surrounding HIT." Four Webinars: Risk Factors and Clinical Presentations of HIT (1.0 hour); Diagnosis of Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT): Management of a Patient with Suspected HIT; Best Practices for Managing HIT in the Critical Care Setting; and The Management of HIT: Case based Scenarios (1.0 hour). HIT Performance Review Tool (1.0 hours) is a resource you can utilize to "review specific patient charts, or as a guide to think about which components are currently implemented in your standard protocols for patients at risk for or undergoing treatment of HIT.”

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.

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.

Practical Reviews in Emergency Medicine Last visited...4/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours... 36 per year (3.0 per month). Awarded by.... Johns Hopkins. Cost.......... $304 per year. Instruction Type... Text-Only; Audio. Target Audience...ER. Educational material updated monthly. Financial Support...None Stated. Expiration of CME credit...Two years after date of publication.

Practical Reviews in Emergency Medicine keeps you informed of the most important research and clinical findings published in Emergency Medicine each month.  Each issue contains: downloadable audio of 10-12 articles summarized and reviewed in each issue; downloadable PDF of written reviews with Take-Home Pearls that reinforce the audio material and give you a valuable reference for instant recall by subject; and self-assessment online quizzes to highlight key points and reinforce what you've learned.

Sullivan Group Last visited...7/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...Most courses offer two hours of credit (except EMTALA which has a few larger sections). 70 courses offering a total of 160 hours). Awarded by.....The Sullivan Group Cost ................$25 per credit hour. Instruction Type...Not Stated (Probably text-only). Target Audience...ER, FP, IM. Educational material last updated...2009. Financial Support...None Stated.

The Sullivan Group is dedicated to improving patient safety and risk management.  Present online courses are: Medical Error & Risk Reduction Series: Emergency Medicine (47 Courses - 96 hours); Medical Malpractice Case Review Series: Emergency Medicine (17 Courses - 34 hours); Medical Legal: EMTALA Education (4 Courses - 26 hours); and Emergency Medicine (2 Courses - 4 hours).

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.

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).