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The sites described on this page are primarily for emergency medicine physicians. You will find other online CME sites and courses with emergency medicine content at the main online CME site. |
American
College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Online CME |
Activities include: Selected Presentations from Scientific Assembly 2005,
29 Web-streaming audiovisual lectures from the 2005 ACEP emergency medicine education conference. |
Anesoft Medical Simulation
Software |
You will find these simulator courses: course (credit hours): ACLS (10); Anesthesia (36); Bioterrorism (12); Critical Care (20); Hemodynamics (10); and Sedation (18). You can see a demo of each course before ordering. |
Bioterrorism Practical Readiness Network (Bio-PRN)
| The site presents six Category A diseases: anthrax, smallpox, tularemia, botulism, plague and viral hemorrhagic fevers and arenaviruses; and six Category B diseases: Q fever, brucellosis, glanders, ricin toxin, clostridium perfringens and staphylococcus enterotoxin. After a didactic presentation of each disease, you are presented with 3 case simulations. You proceed by "examining" each patient and then taking a brief quiz on each patient. |
CMEDownload.com |
CMEDownload.com records lectures delivered at live meetings and presents them in a wide-screen side-by-side format. Currently over 450 lectures are available on the website with 100 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. |
Deep
Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism | Four cases: A 73 year old woman with postoperative chest pain; A 51 year old man with worsening chest pain; A 65 year old woman with postoperative pleurisy and dyspnea; and A 63 year old woman with lower limb swelling and pain. |
DocPod |
This site offers monthly audio programs, about 60 minutes long, which you can download to your MP3 player for listening anytime. Each program also has a pdf text summary of the various segments. At this time (November 2005), you can download a free sample for each specialty (emergency, hospital care). |
DVT/PE Open (Deep
Vein Thrombosis Pulmonary Embolus Cyberounds) | The Cyberounds® DVT/PE Open is an interactive CME golf program on the treatment and management of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. |
EMedHome.com CME Center requires a paid subscription ($71.88 per year) which includes the two kinds of instruction first described below. Also see the separately offered ConCert program (described third). |
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One article per month. Some newer articles are: Drugs and Devices from 2005 That Might Change Your Practice; Acute Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock; Missed Opportunities When Evaluating Ankle Injuries; Emergency CT of the Chest: Pulmonary Embolism and Aortic Pathology; Important Drug-Drug Interactions; and Evidence-Based Gastroenterology. Read the article and take a short quiz. Incorrect answers will return you to the appropriate section of the article and give you another try to answer correctly. |
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Topics include: Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema; Pumps and Shunts and Stents; Acute Life Threatening Events in Children; How to Read a Head CT; Trauma Radiology; and Treatment of Cerebral Hemorrhage Patients. |
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eMedHome offers access to the 20 articles required by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ConCert Article CME Program) and 35 hours of CME credit for reading the articles and answering the related questions. You can access the articles online (somewhat complicated) or EMedHome can mail you print copies for an additional fee of $66. The ConCert sets for 2004, 2005 and 2006 are available. |
Emergency Medicine Practice and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice
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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. |
Harvard
Medical School Online CME | This site now has 33 activities. Course Name (Number of hours): Assessment and Treatment of Depression in the Primary Care Setting (4); Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) of the Liver (3); Challenging Cases in Toxicology (4; Chronic Hepatitis C: A Multifaceted Disease (3); Clinical Challenges in Electrocardiography (6); Clinical Challenges in Chest Radiology (3); Colorectal Cancer: Risks, Screening, and Treatment (6); Emergency Medicine 2005 Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) Review (20); Emergency Medicine 2006 Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) Review (35); Endocrine Emergencies (2); Endoscopic Ultrasound (2); HIV Infection for the Primary Care Provider (2); Hypertension: Evidence based Treatment and Clinical Challenges (3); Intensive Review of Internal Medicine (50); Liability Issues in Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine (1); Lifestyle Medicine for Weight Management (4); Management of Hyperlipidemia (4); Managing Type 2 Diabetes: A Clinical Challenge (2); Mental Health Sequelae of Extreme Violence (2); Metastatic Case Studies in Prostate, Breast, Colorectal, and Lung Cancer (5); Neurological Emergencies: Case Studies in Critical Diagnoses (4); Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) (2); Parkinson's Disease (2); Presentations of the Red Eye (3); Prostate Cancer for the Internist and General Practitioner (2); RAPID: Rheumatoid Arthritis: Primary care Initiative for improved Diagnosis and outcomes (4); Responding to Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons (2); St. John’s Wort & Depression: What's the Evidence? (1); Sudden Cardiac Death: A Focus on the ACLS Guidelines(2); The Clinician in Court: Surviving a Malpractice Suit (2); The Telephone in Clinical Medicine: An Instrument of Risk and Opportunity (3); Topics in Rheumatology: The Swollen Joint (2); and Venous Thrombosis (1). Many courses are geared to the emergency physician, although there is now a larger number of interest to other specialists. You must pay before viewing the material. However, you may view a sample case before signing up for the other courses. |
(The) Sullivan Group
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The Sullivan Group is dedicated to improving patient safety and risk
management. |
Virginia
Disaster Readiness Center | 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. |