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AMAprimarycare.org
Last visited...8/2008.
Credit hours...1.0 hour each (total of 16 hours).
Awarded by....AMA.
Cost...........Free.
Instruct. Type....Slide-Video and Slide-Video..
Target Audiences....FP, IM.
Educ. material last updated....2008.
CME Credit Expires...(Probably) one year after posting.
Financial support...Various pharmaceutical companies.

Current subjects include depression (6 hours), Parkinson's disease (4 hours) and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (6 hours). 

AMA Therapeutic Insights
Last visited...1/2008.
Credit hours...1.0 hour for each newsletter (total of 4.0 hours).
Awarded by....AMA.
Cost...........Free.
Instruct. Type....Text-Only (pdf).
Target Audiences....FP, IM.
Educ. material last updated....12/07.
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.
Financial support...None Stated.

AMA Therapeutic Insights is a "disease-specific CME newsletter with the latest treatment guidelines and unprecedented prescribing data views." The four newsletters are: Management of depression in primary care; Current management of dyslipidemia; Initial treatment of type 2 diabetes--oral hypoglycemics; and Diagnosis and Treatment of Migraines.

California Academy of Family Physicians Online CME (CAFP)
Last visited...8/2008.
Credit hours...One hour per course (7.0 hours). Some programs give additional AAFP credit for being "evidence-based."
Awarded by....California Academy of Family Physicians.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type....Slide-Audio or Text-Only.
Target Audience....FP, IM.
Educational material last updated....2008.
Financial support...Various Pharmaceutical Companies.
CME Credit Expires...One or two years after posting.

Activities are: Shrinking Health Care Disparities in Women: The Depression Dilemma; Opioid Abuse in Chronic Pain; Diagnosis and Treatment of Adult ADHD; Treating Musculoskeletal Pain; The Diabetes Dilemma; COPD: Putting Guidelines Into Practice; and Chronic Pain With a Focus on Neuropathic Pain.

Cleveland Clinic Medicine Today: Internal Medicine Webcast Series
Cleveland Clinic Medicine Today: Internal Medicine Webcast Series
Last visited...6/2008.
Reviewed by Julie Hughbanks, MLS
Credit hours...12 webcasts offering 1.0 hour each (total of 12 hours).
Awarded by....Cleveland Clinic.
Cost for Credit...Free.
Instruct. Type....Slide-Audio Lecture.
Target Audiences....IM.
Educ. material last updated....2007.
Financial Support...Audio-Digest Foundation.

This series presents topics from the Division of Medicine's Medical Grand Rounds. Some recent topics are: Bariatric Surgery; Statin Treatment in African-Americans; Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; The Future of Platelet Transfusion. 

Cleveland Clinic Disease Management Project Clinical Decisions Cases
Last visited...6/2008.
Reviewed by Julie Hughbanks, MLS
Credit hours...Each activity awards 0.5 or 0.75 credit-hours; 18 activities offering a total of 11.25 hours.
Awarded by....Cleveland Clinic.
Cost..........Free.
Instruct. Type...Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences...FP, IM. 
Educ. material last updated....2008.
Financial Support...Audio-Digest Foundation. 

This series applies practice guidelines to clinical practice. Each case includes didactic information as well as interactive 
case-based lessons to aid in patient management. Some specialty areas are: Cardiology; Gastroenterology/Hepatology; 
Hematology/Oncology; Infectious Diseases; Nephrology; Neurology; Pulmonary Diseases; and Rheumatology.

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
Last visited...6/2008.
Reviewed by Julie Hughbanks, MLS
Credit hours...1.5 for each issue (18 hours currently available).
Awarded by....Cleveland Clinic.
Instruction Type... Text-Only.
Target Audiences...FP, IM.
Cost for Credit...Free.
Educational material last updated...6/08.
Financial Support...None Stated. 

You will find the full text and the CME questions from the last 6 months of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. You will need to flip back and forth from the articles to the CME questions.

Clinical Cornerstone
Last visited...7/2007.
Credit hours...3 issues for total of 16 hours; 9 supplements for total of 22.5 hours.
Awarded by....Elsevier Office of CME (Excerpta Medica) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
Cost..........Free.
Instruction Type...Text-Only (PDF).
Target Audience....FP, IM.
Educational material last updated...2006
Financial support...None Stated.
CME Credit Expires...Two years after posting

Each issue provides up to 8 CME or AAFP credits. Supplements provide up to 3 credits.  CME tests and evaluation must be completed on paper and faxed or mailed. Topics include: Management of Osteoporosis; Prevention of Thromboembolic Events; and Cardiometabolic Risk Management;  Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Children; Advances in Cardiometabolic Health; Neutropenia; Abdominal Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Risk; Osteoporosis in the Male Patient; Early Intervention for Optimal Outcomes; Dyslipidemia In Metabolic Syndrome; Realizing Near-Normoglycemia; and Treatment Options for Thyroid Disease.

Clinical Directors Network (CDN) - Clinical Leadership Webcasts
Last visited...12/2008.
Credit hours...About 469 (not all activities have CME credit).
Awarded by....AAFP.
Cost..........Free.
Instruction Type...Slides/Videos/Live interactive discussions.
Target Audience....FP, IM.
Educational material last updated...Daily.
Financial support...None Stated.

Clinical Directors Network, Inc. (CDN) is dedicated to providing and improving primary and preventive health care services for poor, minority, and underserved populations. CDN online training sessions contain about 35 tracks including asthma, bioterrorism, cancer prevention, cardiovascular disease, clinical informatics, dental, depression, diabetes, obesity, smoking cessation, Spanish, women's health and many more. These sessions are delivered on a weekly basis by content experts from the specific clinical fields. Once the live session is completed, webcasts are added to the archived webcast database. Viewers can fill out online CME questionnaire to receive CME certificate via email.

CMELectures.org
Last visited...12/2008.
Credit hours...1.5 per lecture (about 130 lectures offering about 195 hours of credit).
Awarded by....Drexel University, Graduate Education Foundation.
Cost...........Annually $150 (payable monthly at $12.50 per month for 12 months); or quarterly ($44.95).
Instruction Type...Slide-Audio Lectures
Target Audiences....FP, IM.
Educational material last updated....2007.
Financial Support...Graduate Education Foundation.

Online lectures are presented in Grand Rounds format.  Presentations are authored by more than 100 physician educators, most of whom have contributed to the basic text in their specialty. A record of lectures and credits are stored in a personal file for each subscriber. 

Consultant.Live.com
Last visited...12/2008.
Credit hours...16 cases for 8 hours.
Awarded by....The Beam Institute.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics, Text-Only.
Target Audiences....FP, IM.
Educational material last updated....12/08.
Financial Support...None Stated.

Each issue of this online journal presents a photograph and accompanying clinical information for two patients. The program asks you to select a diagnosis from a list of possibilities, then follows with a didactic presentation based on the correct diagnosis. Each case offers 0.5 hour of CME credit.

Crescent (Secondary Hyperparathyroidism)
Last visited...6/2007.
Credit hours...About 9 activities offering a total of about 11.5 hours.
Awarded by.....The France Foundation.
Cost for Credit.....Free.
Instruction Type...Slide-Only, Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....NEPH, IM.
Educational material last updated...Monthly.
Financial Support...Amgen.
CME Credit Expires...December 2008.

Crescent intends to increase your understanding of the physiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients with chronic kidney disease. There are three types of instruction:
Interactive Cases (4 credits);
Peer-to-Peer Dialogue (4.5 credits); and 
Resource Modules (3.0 credits).
To receive CME credit, print the CME application and evaluation form, and fax or mail 
it to The France Foundation.

Cyberounds "Conferences" (Text-Only)
Last visited...1/2008.
Credit hours...Up to 50.0 hours per year. Also accredited by the American Osteopathic Association.)
Awarded by....Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Cost...........$125, including an annual registration charge.
Instruction Type...Text-Only.
Target Audiences....FP, IM.
Educational material last updated....Monthly.
Financial Support...None Stated.

Cyberounds was the first producer of online CME, beginning in 1996. There are programs in 16 specialties, developed by a panel of academic clinicians from 15 U.S. medical schools.

Drexel University College of Medicine Virtual Grand Rounds
Last visited...6/2008.
Reviewed by Julie Hughbanks, MLS
Credit hours...115 lectures offering 1.5 hours each (total of 172.5 hours).
Awarded by...Drexel University College of Medicine.
Cost... $25 per course.
Instruction Type ... Slide-Video-Lecture.
Target Audiences...FP, IM.
Education material last updated...11/07.
Financial Support...Various pharmaceutical companies and Foundations.

There are 115 lectures on general internal medicine and medical subspecialty areas. Some lectures are almost 10 years old (1998) but have been recently reviewed and are eligible for credit. Recent subjects include: Inflammatory Arthritis, Obstructive Airway Disease, MRSA, and Chronic Constipation. Courses can be sorted by topic, date or speaker.

Harvard Medical School Intensive Review of Internal Medicine
Last visited...12/2008.
Credit hours...50.
Cost for Credit....$325.
Instruction Type...Slide-Audio-Lecture.
Target Audiences...IM.
Educ. material last updated....2007.
Financial Support...None stated.

This offering consists of ten modules, each of which is counted and priced as a separate course: Cardiology, Pulmonary, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Rheumatology, Endocrine, General Internal Medicine, Critical Care, Hematology and Nephrology.

Internet-based Studies in Education and Research (University of Pittsburgh)
Last visited...2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...About 95 activities offering about 95 credit-hours.
Awarded by....University of Pittsburgh (UPMC).
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type....Text-Only; Slide-Video lectures. 
Target Audiences...IM, OPHTH, PEDS, PUB HEALTH.
Educational material last updated.....Modules are frequently updated.
Financial Support...None Stated.

The major offering at this site is now UPMC Presbyterian Medical Grand Rounds, a set of 50 slide-video lectures, mostly aimed at internists. Another section contains 30 modules on angiogenesis with special emphasis on angiogenesis in ophthalmology. There are 2 grand rounds presentations in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; 4 activities concerning Mental Health and Substance Abuse Problems of Older Adults; 3 in pediatrics; and 6 from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Public Health Practice.

Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine CME Programs
Last visited...6/2008
Reviewed by Julie Hughbanks, MLS
Credit hours... 1.0 to 2.0 per course.
Awarded by... Johns Hopkins.
Cost... Free.
Instruction Type... Podcast, text.
Target Audiences... Many specialties.
Education material last updated... 2008.
Financial Support... Various pharmaceutical companies.

Click on CME Programs to get started. The site offers courses in 23 medical specialty areas. Many courses have "CME expired" noted: make sure that is not the case if you need CME credits. New topics include: acne, pandemic influenza, Alzheimer's, MS, CNS malignancies, asthma management.  2008 special topic, Johns Hopkins Consultative Medicine Essentials for Hospitalists. Eight (8) interactive, case-based modules released in pairs beginning May 2008.

Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine Journal
Last visited...6/2006.
Credit hours...3.25 hours per month (36 issues for total of 117 hours).
Awarded by......Johns Hopkins.
Cost for Credit......Free.
Instruction Type....Text-Only (pdf)
Target Audiences...FP, IM.
Educational material last updated....2006.
Expiration of CME credit...2 years after posting.
Financial Support...Various Pharmaceutical Companies.

You will find 36 issues of Advanced Studies in Medicine. Each issue offers a set of CME Clinical Evaluation Articles (3 Credit Hours). In addition, each issue has a "Case of the Month" offering 0.25 hours of credit. The most recent issue (May 2006) contains these articles: Update on Pharmacologic Strategies for Atrial Fibrillation; Early Ovarian Cancer; and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes. The "Case of the Month" features a 20-year-old morbidly obese woman presenting with progressive enlargement of her legs.

Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management
Last visited...2/2009.
Credit hours...1.0 hour per article (12 articles at present).
Awarded by....Wayne State University School of Medicine.
Cost for Credit...$9 per hour.
Instruction Type...Text-Only.
Target Audience...FP, IM.
Educational material last updated..12/08.
Financial Support...None Stated.
Expiration of CME credit...One year after date of publication.

The Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to helping physicians and managed care decision makers improve outcomes of care. Each issue of this journal contains an article offering one hour of CME credit. You may read the abstract without charge, but to read the entire article and earn credit, you must first pay $9. Some recent subjects are: Gallstone Disease; Preeclampsia; Primary Care Management of the Patient with Cirrhosis; Postoperative Delirium; and Anorexia Nervosa.

Medscape Nephrology
Last visited...9/2008.
Credit hours...Varies from time to time.
Awarded by....Medscape and many other sponsoring organizations.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Text-and-Graphics, Text-Only, Slide-Audio Lecture, Slide-Video Lecture and Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audiences....NEPH
Educational material last updated...New activities posted frequently.
Financial Support...Many academic, specialty, and commercial sources as well as WebMD.
Expiration of CME Credit...Credit for most activities expires one year after posting.

CME activities of special interest to nephrologists. Medscape contains a variety of educational formats:
CONFERENCE COVERAGE - Reports of  advances presented at major medical conferences; typically includes several tracks with news stories, expert interviews, and in-depth topic overviews.
CLINICAL UPDATE - Comprehensive original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.
FAST TRACK CLINICAL UPDATE – Narrowly focused original review article on scientific advances in a clinical topic.
CME-LIVE - Real-time online events with streaming video, synchronized visuals, and interactive questions and answers; archived for 1 year.
NEWS-CME - Daily reports of major current medical research articles; 0.25 credits each
JOURNAL CME - Articles selected from a wide selection of conference reports and peer-reviewed journals, including MedscapeGeneralMedicine (MedGenMed).
SPECIAL REPORT CME – Topic-based monthly email newsletter distributed to Medscape’s professional member database by specialty.
INTERACTIVE PATIENT CASES – Original CME activity presented to the physician in an interactive, clinical case-based format. 
CME CIRCLE – Multimedia content certified by other accredited professional education providers, typically from live symposia or monographs, and then posted on Medscape and archived for one year.

NEJM Weekly CME Program
Last visited...12/2008.
Credit hours ...One per exam, three per week. (Total of about 140 hours now available).
Awarded by....Massachusetts Medical Society.
Cost..........Free to subscribers to NEJM; $10 for non-subscribers.
Instruction  Type....Text-and-Graphics.
Target Audiences....FP, IM, IM subspecialists.
Educational material last updated....Weekly.
Financial Support...None Stated.

Each week, three articles in the New England Journal of Medicine have a companion CME exam available online. You can earn up to one CME credit for each exam successfully completed. NEJM subscribers receive 20 online exams per year as part of their subscription. Non-subscribers may pay on an hourly basis ($10 per single credit or $45 for 10 exams) and read the articles and take the exams completely online.

National Diabetes Education Initiative (NDEI)
Last visited...8/2008.
Reviewed by... Medical Content Developers, India. Ph: +91-98700 18888.
Credit hours.....8 multimedia case studies offering 0.75 to 1.75 hours for a total of 9 credits; and 3 Payor Podcasts offering 0.5 hours each for a total of 1.5 hours.
Awarded by....Thomson Professional Postgraduate Services.
Cost for Credit...Free.
Instruction Type....Case-Based-Interactive, Podcast..
Target Audiences....FP, IM, ENDO.
Educational material last updated....8/2008.
Financial Support...Thomson Professional Postgraduate Services. 

The National Diabetes Education Initiative (NDEI) offers several kinds of activities, all related to Type 2 Diabetes.
The only activities offering current CME credit are 8 multimedia case studies and 3 "Payor Podcasts."

Practical Reviews Online in Internal Medicine (formerly Journalbytes Internal Medicine)
Last visited...2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours... 48 per year (4.0 per month).
Awarded by.... Johns Hopkins.
Cost.......... $349 per year.
Instruction Type...Most is Text-Only; some Audio.
Target Audience...IM.
Educational material updated monthly.
Financial Support...None Stated.
Expiration of CME credit...Two years after date of publication.

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 4.0 CME credit-hours. 

Pri-Med Online
Last Visited...9/2007.
Credit hours..."Over 300 activities" offering 0,25, 1.0 or 2.0 hours each (probably a total of about 450 hours - not counted).
Awarded by....Pri-Med Institute.
Cost for Credit.....Free.
Instruction Type....Case-Based Interactive, Slide-Audio lecture, Text-Only.
Target Audience....FP, IM.
Educational material last updated...2007.
Financial Support...Probably None.

Instruction falls into 5 categories: Patient Case Studies, Slide Lecture Series, Clinical Reviews, Expert Perspectives and Morning Reports; content of these instructions is in 21 Condition Centers: Alzheimer's / Dementia; Anxiety; Asthma; Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy; Cancer in Primary Care; Depression; Diabetes; Dyslipidemia; GI Motility Disorders; Heart Failure; HEENT; Hypertension; Infectious Disease; Migraine; Obesity; Overactive Bladder; Pain Management; Pediatrics; Sleep Disorders; Vascular Disorders and Women's Health.

Southern Medical Association's MedEd On-Demand
Last visited...12/2008.
Credit hours...69 activities offering a total of 69 hours.
Awarded by....Southern Medical Association.
Cost...........Free to SMA members; $25 per credit to others (or a one year subscription for $199).
Instruction Type...Slide-Audio lectures.
Target Audience...FP, IM.
Educational material last updated.....2008.
CME Credit Expires...Two years after posting.
Financial Support...None Stated.

Lectures are organized into groups. Some of the newer groups are: Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Disorders; Osteoporosis; Ask The Experts; and Practice Management. You can also search for lectures by keyword.

Southern Medical Journal
Last visited...6/2008.
Credit hours...30.
Awarded by....Southern Medical Association.
Cost...........$15.
Instruct. Type...Text-Only
Target Audience...FP, IM.
Educational material last updated.....Monthly.
CME Credit Expires...One year after posting.
Financial Support...None Stated.

Each monthly online journal offers one to three hours of CME credit. Some recent articles are: Control of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Use of Aspirin in Diabetic Patients Remain Elusive; Platelet Function in Patients with Depression; Brain Abscess and Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia; Human Trafficking and the Healthcare Professional; C-Reactive Protein: The Harbinger of Cardiovascular Diseases; and Endobronchial Ultrasound in the Evaluation of Lung Cancer.

University of California at Davis (UCDHS) Continuing Medical Education Self-Study Modules
Last visited...2/2009.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...0.5 to 1.5 per lecture (most activities offer 1.0); 54 activities offering a total of about 48 hours).
Awarded by....University of California, Davis Health System.
Cost for Credit....Free.
Instruction Type...Slide-Video Lecture (most courses also have pdfs of the slides).
Target Audiences...FP, IM, PED.
Educational material last updated....1/09.
Financial Support...None Stated.

Lectures on general medical subjects. Each lecture was originally presented as a video teleconference. Some recent lectures are: Update on Polyposis Syndromes; Analysis of Type II Diabetes Mellitus in the Pediatric Population; Enhancing Treatment for Patients with Comorbid Depression, Diabetes and Heart Disease; Pica: A tale of three hypotheses; and Mind-Body Medicine Meditation, Biofeedback and Imagery: Are They Good for Your Health? To receive CME credit, print and mail or fax the evaluation form.

Yale Online CME
Last visited...9/2008.
Credit hours... 49 courses offering a total of 43 hours.
Reviewed by Neil Mehta, MD, FACP.
Awarded by...Yale University School of Medicine.
Cost for Credit.....$15 per hour or $200 per year.
Instruction Type....Slide-Video lectures.
Target Audiences....Mostly IM; some PED, some SURG, 1 Neuroscience.
Educational material last updated... 2008 (IM) 2007 (The others).
Financial Support...None Stated. 

You will find 23 Internal Medicine Grand Rounds (6 from 2008, 10 from 2007 and 7 from 2005) Slide-Video lectures, 5 Surgery Grand Rounds Slide-Video lectures, 5 Pediatrics Grand Rounds Slide-Video lectures, and 9 "Connecticut Mandated Courses" (probably Slide-Video lectures). Except for the Internal Medicine Grand Rounds none of the content is from 2008.