Online CME: Genetics

Genetics & Your Practice Online Last visited...3/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. 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...12/31/2011.

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.

Harvard Medical School Online CME Last visited...8/2010. Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD. Credit hours...62 courses; total about 160 hours. (Most courses are 1 to 5 hours; there are two extensive ER courses, 20 hours each). Awarded by....Harvard Medical School. Cost for Credit......$20 per hour. (The review courses cost about $10 per hour.) Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive. Target Audiences...ER, IM, FP, GENETICS, GERIATRICS. Educational material last updated...2010. Financial Support...None Stated.

The largest activities, in terms of hours, are the Emergency Medicine Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment (LLSA) Reviews for 2005 and 2006, offering 20 or 35 hours. There are 16 activities concerned with genetics and 7 in geriatrics. Most of the remaining courses are in general medicine.

Last Updated August 1, 2010.