Free CME

These areas are covered:
Goal Directed Therapy ,Early Goal Directed Therapy, Hemodynamic Monitoring, Glucose Monitoring / Diabetes and Critical Care Pharmacology.

Some recent titles are:
• Making the Case for Glycemic Control: Is it a Matter of Tightness or Timing?
• Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring
• Cardiac Output Monitoring vs. TEE/TTEGoal-Directed Therapy in the Operating Room
• Physiologic Optimization Program: Physiology Based Fluid Management
• Extravascular Lung Water: Clinical Implications
• Critical Care Pharmacotherapy Literature Updates
• Severe Sepsis: Early Recognition & Management Saves Lives
• The Use of Dynamic Parameters in Perioperative Fluid Management
• Current Trends in Management of Blood Glucose in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Anesthesiology, Critical Care, ER, Hospital Medicine, and Pediatrics (ICU).

Some popular courses include:
• Driving After Orthopedic Surgery
• Comparison of Cemented and Uncemented Fixation in Total Knee Arthroplasty
• Primary Care Practice: Advances in Chronic OA Management
• Coagulation Abnormalities in Osteonecrosis and Bone Marrow Edema Syndrome
• Vancomycin Prophylaxis of Surgical Site Infection in Clean Orthopedic Surgery
• Total Hip Revision Arthroplasty: Case Reviews & Treatment Options
• Vancomycin Prophylaxis of Surgical Site Infection in Clean Orthopedic Surgery
• Virtual Learning Center: Revision TKA
• Medicolegal Cases for Spinal Epidural

Target Audience: Orthopedic Surgeons

In this online CME self-learning program: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare connective tissue disease that affects between eight and 56 people per million per year and up to 341 people per million total in the U.S., of whom around 70% will experience interstitial lung disease (ILD). The disease is characterized by a progressive course of scarring to the blood vessels underlying the skin, connective tissue, joints, and organs. The pathology of SSc remains to be fully elucidated, but different immunologic and genetic pathways have been explored as potential precipitating factors for SSc. Based on what is known, SSc-ILD may be summarized into three steps: 1) continuous injury to endothelial cells, 2) activation of innate and adaptive immunity, 3) recruitment and activation of fibroblasts. Early diagnosis is crucial for preservation and survival of major organs. Lung fibrosis is considered irreversible, and if the disease has progressed far beyond repair, lung transplantation is considered. Therefore, early detection is paramount in order for patients to preserve their lung function.

Target Audience:

The following HCPs: pulmonologists, rheumatologists, radiologists, primary care physicians, dermatologists; physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists specializing in pulmonology; and any other HCPs who have an interest in or otherwise clinically encounter patients with SSc-ILD.

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

• Define the clinical features of systemic sclerosis
• Discuss current understanding of the biology of systemic sclerosis
• Define clinical phenotypes of systemic sclerosis
• Explore pulmonary manifestations of systemic sclerosis
• Understand the approach to diagnosis of systemic sclerosis interstitial lung disease and other pulmonary manifestations
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Almost every week, a lecture is videotaped and uploaded to the site within a few days.

Some examples include:
• Preparing for Disasters – The Role of the General Pediatrician
• Supporting Breastfeeding Dyads: the Pediatrician’s Role
• Seven Doctors Project: Creative Writing Workshops for Healthcare Workers
• Residency Now and Into the Future

Target Audience: Pediatricians

Some popular topucs include:
• Nutrition in the Bariatric Surgery Patient
• Lower Lid Reconstruction
• Combined Descending and Oblique-Branch-Based Anterolateral Thigh Flap in Head and Neck Reconstruction
• Breast Reconstruction and Obesity
• Treatment Strategies for Neonates with Tongue-Based Obstruction

Target Audience: Plastic Surgeons

Practice Point: HIV offers various vidoes, clinical clips, interactive case, and mini modules focusing on HIV.

All the courses are free and offers CME credits.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Infectious Disease

ReachMD consists entirely of podcasts offering 0.25 to 0.75 credit-hours. These can be listened to on your computer, mp3 player, XM Satellite radio or iPhone. Most activities are in general adult medicine and OB/GYN.

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and OB-GYN.

The program presents a series of typical emergency room encounters with victims of domestic violence.

DVeducation.ca is the “online source for evidence-based, interactive curricula on intimate partner abuse and sexual violence”

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on domestic violence.

After completing Safe and Effective Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain, you will be able to:
• Discuss the breadth and quality of evidence for the use of opioids for chronic pain, including current gaps in knowledge.
• Describe appropriate assessment, monitoring and documentation strategies to meet best practice standards and medico-legal requirements to support opioid prescribing.
• Apply appropriate communications strategies when initiating, managing, and, if necessary, terminating opioids for patients with chronic pain.
• Describe, screen for, and manage potential co-morbidities in chronic pain patients.
• Apply a practical framework for decision-making on the initiation, maintenance, and discontinuation of opioid analgesics for the treatment of chronic pain.
This program meets the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for 4 hours of risk management study and 4 hours of opioid education.

Target Audience:
Physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dentists, and pharmacists

After completing Scope of Pain: Safe & Competent Opioid Prescribing Education, you will be able to:
• Discuss prevalence of chronic pain in the US
• Discuss prevalence of the use and misuse of opioid analgesics
• Describe the pharmacology, efficacy and safety of opioid analgesics
• Describe the components of a thorough opioid misuse risk assessment for a potential candidate for chronic opioid therapy
• Describe universal precautions and their role in chronic opioid therapy
• Describe monitoring and documentation strategies for chronic opioid therapy
• Describe initiating opioid therapy
• Apply counseling and communication strategies to ensure appropriate and safe use of opioid medications
• Assess differential diagnosis for aberrant medication taking behavior – Pain relief vs drug seeking

Target Audience: Physicians focusing on Pain Management