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

American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR)
Last visited....3/2007.
Credit hours....0.5 to 2.5 hours per course; most are 0.5 hour; about 78 courses offering about 52 hours.
Awarded by....ASNR.
Cost for Credit....Free to members of ASNR; $15 to 20 for nonmembers.
Instruction Type....Slide-Audio Lecture or Case-Based-Interactive.
Target Audience....NEUR, NS, RAD.
Educational material last updated....2006.
Financial Support...None stated.

Some newer titles are: New Imaging Modalities; Biological Treatment with Gene Therapy and Stem Cells; Presurgical Mapping: MEG; Presurgical Mapping: fMRI and DTI; Emerging Applications in Restorative Neurosurgery and Functional Neuroimaging; Traumatic Brain Injury: Imaging Update 2006; DTI: Use of Fiber Tracking; and DTI: Use of Fractional Anisotropy.

Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery
Last visited...11/2006.
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....NEUR.
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 neurosurgeons. 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.

SANS (Self-Assessment in Neurological Surgery)
Last visited......3/2007.
Credit hours......24.
Awarded by......Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS).
Cost......$295 to $450 depending on membership status.
Instruction Type......Question-and-Answer.
Target Audience....NS.
Educational material last updated......Regularly.
Financial Support...None Stated.

SANS is a required component of the American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS) three-year MOC cycle (Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment). SANS is created by a Board of over 20 editors and more than 60 expert contributors, representing all areas of general and subspecialty neurosurgical practice. The teaching materials used in SANS consist of text, pictures, video clips and links to relevant Internet sites. Physicians answer questions in specific topic areas, reviewing their answers, and reading question critiques.