Online CME: Genetics
Last Updated March 24, 2008.

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The sites described on this page are primarily concerned with genetics topics. You may find other online CME sites and courses with genetics content at the main online CME site.

Genetics & Your Practice Online
Last visited...1/2008.
Credit hours...Total of 3 hours.
Awarded by....Swedish Medical Center.
Cost..........Free.
Instruction Type....Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....FP, PED, OB-GYN.
Educational material last updated....2005.
Financial Support...March of Dimes, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
CME Credit Expires...12/31/08.

The cases offer you the opportunity to work through a simulated clinical setting on how to integrate genetics into patient care. The site has three CME topics: Genetic Testing and Screening, Family Health and Social History, and Referral to Genetic Services. Each module can be customized by the patient type: preconception/prenatal, infant/children, and adolescent/adult. In addition, the Resources and Tools section (not for CME) provides checklists, risk tables, fact sheets and  questionnaires.

Genetics in Clinical Practice: A Team Approach
Last visited...6/2006.
Credit hours...Up to 10.
Awarded by....Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Cost...........$15 (CD version available for $25).
Instruct. Type...Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....FP, IM, PED, OB/GYN, General Interest.
Educational material last updated...7/04.
Financial support...CDC via a subaward from the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine.

Genetics in Clinical Practice: A Team Approach takes place in a "Virtual Genetics Clinic," where you can participate in a "Virtual Mini Fellowship" with a master clinician. The program features four simulated patients who have, or may develop, diseases where your decisions about, clinical genetics can affect outcomes. You can visit the Learning Resources Room and attend lectures, listen to interviews, engage in activities, and search the World Wide Web for relevant information.

GeneticSolutions.com
Last visited...3/2008.
Credit hours...6 courses offering a total of 7.75 hours.
Awarded by....Clinical Tools, Inc.
Cost..........Free.
Instruction Type....Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....Genetics.
Educ. material last updated....Probably 2006.
Financial Support...National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute.

There are now six courses:
Genetic Services and the Primary Care Provider; The Medical Family History; Genetic Testing in Clinical Practice; Etiology of Sporadic and Hereditary Cancers; Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome: Genetic Testing and Counseling; and Overview of the Hemoglobinopathies.

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This list was compiled by Bernard Sklar, MD, MS