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American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Online CME
Last visited...6/2006.
Credit hours and Fees:
Scientific Assembly, 29 hours, $15 per hour.
Foresight, 2 hours each, $12. 
8 issues, total of 16 hours.
eACLS, 6 hours, $100.
Awarded by....ACEP.
Instruction Type...Text-Only, Text-and-Graphics, Slide-Audio.
Target Audience...ER.
Educational material last updated...2006.
Financial support...None Stated.

Activities include: Selected Presentations from Scientific Assembly 2005, 29 Web-streaming audiovisual lectures from the 2005 ACEP emergency medicine education conference. 
Foresight, a periodical on ED risk management, awards two hours of credit in each issue. 
eACLS offers refresher training in Advanced Cardiac Life Support featuring 10 interactive case studies.
HeartRounds illustrates the challenges of diagnosing and treating acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) in the emergency department.
Managing the Patient with Acute Agitation in the ED presents information on the diagnosis and management of these patients.

CMEDownload.com
Last visited...5/2007.
Credit hours...100.
Awarded by....American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
Cost...........Yearly subscription costs $249 for online access only or $349 for online access plus a DVD of all lectures. You can also purchase individual lectures for $5-25 each.
Instruction Type...Slide-Video Lectures; also video podcast and audio podcast..
Target Audiences....ER.
Educational material last updated....2007.
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 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
Last visited...7/2006.
Credit hours...1.5 hours per course; total of 6 hours.
Awarded by....University of Nebraska.
Cost for Credit.....Free. 
Instruction Type....Case-Based Interactive.
Target Audiences....ER, CARD, PULM.
Educational material last updated...2005.
Financial Support...Aventis.

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
Last visited...6/2006.
Credit hours...2 hours per issue; 12 issues per year in each specialty.
Awarded by....Oakstone Publishing.
Cost...........$249 per year.
Instruction Type...Audio and text.
Target Audiences....ER, CRIT CARE.
Educational material last updated....Monthly.
Financial Support...None stated. 

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)
Last visited...7/2007.
Credit hours...9.0.
Awarded by....Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instruction Type...Interactive Game.
Target Audiences...Not Stated, probably best suited to ER, CRITICAL CARE and PULM.
Educational material last updated....2007
Financial Support...Sanofi Aventis.
CME Credit Expires...Sept 29, 2009.

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). 

• EMedHome Feature Article CME
  Last visited...6/2006.
  Credit hours...2.0 hours per article (total of 24 hours).
  Awarded by....EMedHome.
  Cost..........See Above.
  Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics.
  Target Audience....ER.
  Educ. material last updated...Monthly
  Financial support...None Stated.
  Credit Expires...One year after posting.

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.

• EMedHome On-Line EM Lectures CME Program
  Last visited...6/2006.
  Credit hours...0.25 to 1.25 hours per lecture (38 lectures; total of about 20 hours)
  Awarded by....American College of Emergency Physicians.
  Cost..........See Above.
  Instruction Type...Slide-Video or Slide-Audio Lectures.
  Target Audience....ER.
  Educ. material last updated...2006.
  Financial support...None Stated.

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.

• EMedHome ConCert Article CME Program
  Last visited...6/2006.
  Credit hours...35 for each set of articles.
  Awarded by....American College of Emergency Physicians.
  Cost..........$59 (credit only).
  Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics, Question-and-Answer..
  Target Audience....ER.
  Educ. material last updated...2004.
  Financial support...None Stated.

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
Last visited...3/2008.
Credit hours...4 hours per month (48 hours per year for each subscription). These are two separate journals.
Awarded by....Mount Sinal School of Medicine.
Cost........... $297.96 per one-year subscription. Individual issues may be purchased for $30.00.
Instruction Type...Text and Graphics.
Target Audiences....ER, PED.
Educational material last updated...Monthly.
Financial Support...None.
CME credit expires: 3 years from published date, AAFP: two 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.

Harvard Medical School Online CME
Last visited...11/2007.
Credit hours...33 courses; 189 hours. (Most courses are 1 to 5 hours; there and two extensive ER courses, 20 and 35 hours, and one extensive internal medicine course (50 hours).
Awarded by....Harvard Medical School.
Cost for Credit......$10 per hour.
Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
Target Audiences...ER, IM, FP and others.
Educational material last updated...2007
Financial Support...None Stated.

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.

Virginia Disaster Readiness Center
Last visited...8/2007.
Credit hours...7.0.
Awarded by....Virginia Commonwealth University.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Slide-Audio Lecture.
Target Audience...ER.
Educational material last updated....03/07
Financial Support...None Stated.
CME Credit Expires...3/1/2008.

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.