CMEList.com - Online CME: Gastroenterology

CMEInfo - Programs in Gastroenterology (Sponsored Link) Last visited...8/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours....11.0. Awarded by....The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Cost..........$795.  Instruction Type...Video DVD, Video MP4. Target Audience....PATH, GI. Educational material last updated...2009. Financial support...None Stated. CME Credit Expires...3 years after issue.

Current Topics in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology (The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 11 hours) is intended as a practical overview for pathologists who encounter gastrointestinal specimens in daily practice. Interpretation of mucosal biopsies of the upper GI tract is addressed, as well as recent advances in pancreatic pathology. Case presentations are featured to emphasize presented concepts. Viewers should come away with a better understanding of interpretation of mucosal biopsies, liver biopsies, pancreatic/biliary disorders, and the application of modern techniques to gastrointestinal disorders.

Practical Reviews in Gastroenterology (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..........$317 per year. Instruction Type...Most is Text-Only; some Audio. Target Audience...GI. Educational material updated monthly. Financial Support...None Stated. Expiration of CME credit...Two years after date of publication.

Practical Reviews in Gastroenterology keeps you informed of the most important research and clinical findings published in Gastroenterology each month.  Each issue contains a variety of types of presentations: Literature Reviews; Critical Discussion and Commentary; Vital Topic; Audio Reviews; Tables of Contents from Key Journals; and an E-quiz offering 3.0 CME credit-hours.

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(AskAFIP) Armed Forces Virtual Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Biopsy Course Last visited....10/2009. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...2.0 per module (total of 10 hours). Awarded by....AFIP. Cost for Credit....$25. Instruction Type....Text-and-Graphics. Target Audiences....PATH, GI. Educational material last updated...Not stated. Financial Support...None Stated.

Register or log in at the AskAFIP Home Page. Then choose "Education," then "Course Catalog" to scroll your way down to Virtual Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Biopsy Course. This course is presented by the Division of Gastrointestinal Pathology, AFIP. The course has 5 modules; each module consists of eight cases with a brief case history and a set of microscopic slides of an endoscopic biopsy.

Cleveland Clinic Gastroenterology Last visited...3/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD Credit hours....About 32 activities offering a total of about 32 hours. Awarded by....Cleveland Clinic. Cost..........Free. Instruct. Type...Slide-Video and Slide-Audio Lectures, Podcasts, Text-Only. Target Audiences...GI. Educational material last updated....2010. Financial Support...Some activities have commercial support. CME Credit Expires...2 years after posting.

Some recent activities include: Should Patients with Cirrhosis be Restricted from Driving? Subclinical Cognitive and Motor Impairments in Cirrhosis; Biologics III: The Newer Agents; Celiac Disease: More Common Than You Think; Patient with Hepatitis B and Rheumatoid Arthritis; Crohn’s Disease; Managing acute upper GI bleeding, preventing recurrences; Treating silent reflux disease does not improve poorly controlled asthma; and When and how to evaluate mildly elevated liver enzymes in apparently healthy patients.

Clinical Care Options Hepatitis   Last visited...6/2010. Reviewed by Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...About 40 activities offering about 20 hours. Awarded by....Various Sponsors. Cost..........Free. Instruction Type...Text-with-Slides or Case-Based-Interactive). Target Audience....GI, HIV/ID. Educational material last updated...2010. Financial support...Various pharmaceutical companies. Credit Expires...One year after posting.

About 40 text-based or case-based-interactive activities concerned with aspects of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C infection. All of these categories offer CME credit: Conference Coverage, Journal Options, Management Series, Treatment Updates, Annual Updates and Interactive Cases.  The current Featured Content is Staying the Course: Patient Adherence Strategies in HBV (Strategies for optimizing treatment adherence in patients receiving HBV therapy).  Not all activities offer CME; look for the term, "CME-certified".

Hepatitis Web Study Last visited...3/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...0.5 per module (total of 11 hours) Awarded by....University of Alabama Continuing Medical Education. Cost for Credit......Free.  Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive. Target Audiences...FP, IM, ID, GI. Educational material last updated...2/2010. Financial Support...CDC.

A set of brief (30 minutes) case simulations about Hepatitis A (3), Hepatitis B (13) and Hepatitis C (6).

HIV and Hepatitis.com Last visited...7/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...24 activities offering 1 to 2 hours each (probably about 30 hours). Awarded by....Various sponsors Cost for Credit......Free.  Instruction Type...Slide-Audio Lectures, Slide-Video lectures, Monographs (pdf), Podcasts,  Target Audiences...HIV/ID, GI. Educational material last updated...2010 Financial Support...Multiple pharmaceutical companies. CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

Click on Library of CME/CE Programs. You will find 24 programs on various aspects of HIV and Hepatitis. Some programs have multiple sections and offer up to 2.25 hours of credit. Some recent activities include: Comparing the AASLD and EASL Guidelines in the Clinical Setting; Stories of Success in HIV; HBV Counseling Toolkit; HIV Across the Board: Improving HIV Knowledge and Patient Care; and The 17th CROI eSymposium.

ITPeducation.org Last visited…8/2010 Reviewed by…Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours…5 activities offering a total of 7.75 hours. Awarded by…The France Foundation. Cost for Credit…Free. Instruction Type… Podcast, Slide-Video Lecture, Text-Only. Target Audience.... HEMA, GI, ONCO (and other physicians who treat patients with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura - ITP). Educational material last updated...2009. Financial Support...GlaxoSmithKline.

ITPeducation.org focuses on managing patients with ITP and related thrombocytopenic complications. There are 4 sections: Peer-to-Peer Audio Podcast Series (5-10 minute clips; 1.25 hours of credit). 4 Webinars: ITP: Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Strategies (1.0 hour);  Quality of Life Instruments in Risk/Benefit Analysis of Therapeutic Options (0.5 hour); Thrombopoietic Agents and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches to ITP (0.5 hour); and Managing Thrombocytopenia in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease (0.5 hour). 3 Clinical Primers (1.0 hour each): Assessing Recent Advancements in the Management of ITP and Thrombocytopenia Secondary to Other Disorders; An Update of Evidence from 2008; and Chronic Immune/Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP). ITP Performance Improvement Tool (1.0 hours) is a resource you can utilize to assess how well you are managing your patients who have ITP. The Applications in Practice Clinical Tool Kit (2.0 hours) is a collection of resources created to improve ITP management. It consists of a Newsletter, Clinical Pearls, and Performance Improvement Tool.

(The) Liver Meeting 2008 Last visited...7/2010. Credit hours...About 38 activities offering a total of about 38 credit-hours. Awarded by....American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). Cost...........Free. Instruction Type...Slide-Audio Lecture. Target Audience...GI. Educational material last updated...2008. Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.

After logging in, click on "2008 Best of the Liver Meeting Lectures & Abstracts." Some titles include: Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Surgery State-of-the-Art: Hepatic Tolerance; Leon Schiff State-of-the-Art: Acute Liver Failure; Hyman Zimmerman State-of-the-Art: Nuclear Receptors... Vitamin D D'Livers; General Hepatology Updates: Status & Future Treatment of Hep C; Treatment of Autoimmune Hepatitis; and Non-Surgical Therapies for HCC.

Liver Meeting 2009 Last visited...7/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...About 36 activities offering a total of about 36 credit-hours. Awarded by....American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). Cost...........Free. Instruction Type...Slide-Audio Lecture. Target Audience...GI. Educational material last updated...2009. Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.

About 36 slide-audio lectures. Some titles include: The Biology and Therapeutic Potential of Small RNAs; Ascites Management in Older Patients: To TIPS or not to TIPS?; Ethical Challenges in Data Management and Publication of Hepatology Research; Global HCC Update; Update in the Treatment for Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD); and What is Critical for Liver Surgery and Partial Liver Transplantation-Size or Quality?

Practical Reviews in Gastroenterology Last visited...4/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...36 per year (3.0 per month). Awarded by.... Johns Hopkins. Cost..........$317 per year. Instruction Type...Most is Text-Only; some Audio. Target Audience...GI. Educational material updated monthly. Financial Support...None Stated. Expiration of CME credit...Two years after date of publication.

Practical Reviews in Gastroenterology keeps you informed of the most important research and clinical findings published in Gastroenterology each month.  Each issue contains a variety of types of presentations: Literature Reviews; Critical Discussion and Commentary; Vital Topic; Audio Reviews; Tables of Contents from Key Journals; and an E-quiz offering 3.0 CME credit-hours.

Projects In Knowledge Advanced Certificate Program in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Last visited...2/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...9 activities for a total of 8.5 credits. Awarded by…Projects In Knowledge.  Cost for Credit...Free.  Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics, Audio Podcast. Target Audiences...GI, ONCO, SURG. Educational materials last updated...12/09.  Financial Support...Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Onyx Pharmaceuticals. CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

After completing this program, you should be able to: assess the importance of screening, surveillance, diagnosis, and optimal treatment intervention of patients with or at risk of developing HCC (hepatocellular carcinoma) through an understanding of the risk factors, disease burden, imaging, and biomarkers to customize interventions leading to improved patient outcomes; analyze the benefits of liver transplantation, surgical resection and ablation therapies in eligible patients with HCC to optimize patient outcomes; compare the benefits of various adjunctive therapies, including ablative therapy, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and chemoembolization; as well as conformal or stereotactic radiation, including radiotherapeutic microspheres, to select single or combined strategies that improve outcomes of patients with HCC; evaluate the benefits of targeted therapeutic agents, based on their efficacy and safety profiles and mechanisms of action, to improve treatment outcomes in patients with HCC; assess tumor- and patient-related factors as predictors of response to determine which patients with HCC are likely to benefit from specific therapies to improve their outcomes; and describe the potential role of systemic chemotherapies in combination with targeted agents, in the future treatment of patients with HCC.

Projects In Knowledge Advanced Certificate Program IV: Bridging Cultural Differences to Improve HBV Treatment in Asian and Other Diverse Communities Last visited...7/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...18 activities for a total of 16.75 credits.  Awarded by…Projects In Knowledge.  Cost for Credit...Free.  Instruction Type...Text and Audio.  Target Audiences...GI, ID, and other physicians treating Hepatitis B.  Educational materials last updated...July 20, 2010.  Financial Support...Bristol-Myers Squibb and Gilead Sciences, Inc.  CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.

The fifth year of this free advanced curriculum offers 17 new and engaging, multiple-format courses, developed by prominent hepatology experts including co-chairs Adrian M. Di Bisceglie, MD, FACP, and Robert G. Gish, MD. Gain clarity and guidance on key issues and practice challenges, including methodology for screening and diagnosing HBV, prevention strategies (eg, early vaccination, screening during pregnancy), optimal management strategies (including who and when to treat, and issues with long-term therapy), and cultural differences in patient communications.

TheGut.org Last visited...4/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...2 activities offering a total of 3.25 hours of credit. Awarded by....Various Sponsors. Cost...........Free. Instruction Type...Slide-Only lecture, Slide-Video lecture or Text-and-Graphics. Target Audience...GI. Educational material last updated....2009. Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies.

Currently offers 2 activities: Complex GERD: Identifying the challenges and finding solutions (1.25 hours); and Successful Management of IBS-C in Primary Care: Barriers to Care. Patient Scenarios. Knowledge Mastery (2 credits).