Online CME: Quality, Management, Ethics and Licensure
Requirements
Last Updated March 6, 2010.
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The sites described on this page are primarily concerned with medical quality, management, legal, ethical and business issues. Some of these sites contain courses required for licensure in various states. You may find additional online CME sites and courses concerned with medical quality, management and ethics at the main online CME site. |
AMDA cmedirect |
This site is aimed at physicians who are medical directors in long-term care facilities.
Four webcast programs are:
Immunization in Long Term Care; Pain Management; Practical Guidelines for Handling VRE and MRSA in Long Term Care; and
Urinary Incontinence in Long Term Care. |
AAFP Family
Practice Management Quiz
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Each bi-monthly issue of this online journal contains a series of articles concerning management issues in primary care and questions relating to those articles. Members of the AAFP may submit the answers to quizzes online, while nonmembers must complete and mail in the tear-out card found in the paper version of the journal. |
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (ABQAURP) |
Some large comprehensive courses (3 to 13 credit hours) are: Medical Error Prevention and Patient Safety, Parts 1 and 2; A Review of the Core Body of Knowledge; Patient Safety Certificate Course; and Health Care Quality and Patient Safety. |
(AskAFIP)
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Legal Medicine
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Register or log in at the AskAFIP Home Page. Then choose "Education," then "Course Catalog" to scroll your way down to Legal Medicine 2009.This site contains articles concerning legal aspects of medical practice with special emphasis on the concerns of military and federal health care providers. Current titles are: Legal Aspects Of Minimally Invasive Surgery; Forensic Applications Of DNA Analysis; The National Practitioner Data Bank-Selected Data Elements From the Public Use File For Calendar Year 2007; Trends In Telehealth: Taming the Wild West; Healthcare Errors: Disclosure and Apology; and Leading Court Decisions. You can also earn credit by studying issues as far back as 1999. |
Baylor
Medical Ethics
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Two presentations, illustrating several aspects of medical ethics, drawn from the pediatrics section of the Baylor site: A Challenge for the Pediatrician: The Adolescent Interview; and Pediatric Assent and Confidentiality in Clinical Practice. |
Command Spanish Online: Spanish for Physicians
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Upon completion of this course, you will be able to utilize Spanish in order to do the following:
Greet patients; Employ basic social and courtesy phrases; Use communication strategies to negotiate a mutual level of understanding;
Express and recognize numbers 0-999; Conduct a complete physical exam; Explain diagnosis and treatment;
Explain discharge instructions.
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Cultural Competence Online for Medical Practice
(CCOMP) - A Clinician's Guide to Reduce Cardiovascular Disparities |
This website offers cultural competence training with the main purpose to reduce cardiovascular disparities. Studying the cases will assist you in improving knowledge, awareness and skills, and in learning effective cross-cultural approaches to care for African-American patients with cardiovascular disease, especially hypertension. |
DIA Learning |
Five courses: Persistent Vegetative State “To Live…or Let Die,” featuring the Terri Schiavo story; A National Emergency “Patient Safety;” Assisted Suicide and End of Life Care: “Dying Well; "Stem Cell Research: “Frontier of Hope and Concern;” and Born Too Soon: “Life and Death in the NICU.” |
Florida
Medical Association Online CME | These four courses are part of the licensure requirements for Florida physicians. They may also be taken for credit by non-Florida physicians. Those courses are: Domestic Violence (2 hours); End-of-Life Care (3 hours); Prevention of Medical Errors (2 hours) and HIV/AIDS (1 hour). |
Healthcare
Improvement Skills Center
(HISC)
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This set of 6 modules examines the gap between evidence-based best practice and what clinicians are able to achieve on a daily basis for patients. After completing this course, you will be better able to analyze current care, generate hypotheses about the link between action and results, develop ideas about how to improve, design a test of a change in practice, and plan to disseminate and sustain successful results. |
Improving the Health of Vulnerable Populations
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This program provides physicians with specific public health and preventative medicine strategies to apply in medical practice in order to improve the health of vulnerable populations, including: HIV screening, chronic care management, complementary or alternative treatment use, family violence exposure, unhealthy lifestyles, and sexual health. |
InforMed
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INFORMED specializes in providing CME that meets the requirements for physicians seeking initial licensure or wishing to renew their licenses in Florida. Courses include Self-Directed Learning, The Internet and CME; Medical Errors; HIV/AIDS; and Domestic Violence. All content is included in a downloadable 66 page pdf file. |
Massachusetts
Medical Society Online CME
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Courses are organized into these groups: Communication; Health and Wellness; Legal Risk Management; Medical Ethics; Patient Safety; Practice Improvement; and Public Health. Two Featured Courses are: Legal Advisor: Advance Directives; and Health Care Providers Brace for Medicare Audits (RAC). |
Medication safety: The Physician's Role in Medication Reconciliation
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This monograph provides information for physicians to heighten awareness of the role of medication reconciliation in the safe use of medications. The monograph provides a framework for physicians to understand their roles and responsibilities in this
process. The monograph offers general concepts and strategies, implementation steps, and case-based learning. The program includes a guide to completing an AMA My Medications© patient medication card. |
MedRisk
Online
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Programs on reducing malpractice risk in various practice settings. Some representative titles are: Focus on Patient Privacy - The HIPAA Privacy Rule; Risk Management Consult: Achieving Cultural Competence; Risk Management Essentials for Physicians with HIPAA and Federal Compliance; and Risk Management Focus: Documentation. |
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Online Continuing Education Series
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10 lectures on complementary and alternative medicine including Overview of CAM, Herbs/Dietary supplements, Acupuncture, Mind/Body Medicine, Chiropracty/Spinal Manipulation, Integrative Medicine, Health and Spirituality, Evaluating Natural Products. View lecture, read Q and A PDF, and answer multiple choice questions for credit. |
NEOUCOM
(Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy)
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Four courses on using medical informatics tool and understanding the literature: Online Point-of-Care Learning; Writing Educational Objectives for Authentic Curricular Alignment; Information Mastery Practicum: How to Select and Use the Best Hunting and Foraging Tools; and What's Hype? What's Right? Assessing New Information from Pharm Reps to the Latest Journals. Seven courses in dermatology: Difficult Aspects of Actinic Keratosis Treatment; Office-based Therapies for Warts; Mastering the Treatment of Eczema and Contact Dermatitis; Diagnostic Dilemmas; Dermatologic Therapy: How to Add to Your Treatment Palette; Infectious Disease and Skin: Clinical Pathologic Correlation; and Eyes and Skin Disease. |
NetCE
Continuing Education on the Internet
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Many courses at this site are offered to meet state licensure requirements. You can search according to your state's requirements. Some courses are: HIV/AIDS: The Florida Requirement for Physicians; HIV/AIDS: Epidemic Update for Kentucky; Florida Domestic Violence Requirement; and Domestic Violence: The Kentucky Requirements. Some other courses are: Medical Error Prevention; Coronary Artery Disease; Permanent Pacemakers; Interventional Radiology; and The Pediatric Trauma Patient. |
Organized Medical Staff Section Educational Program Webcasts from 2008 Annual Meeting
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This section has three 90-minute webcasts. Topics include: Transitioning to an Improved Hospital
Discharge; Keys to the Successful Implementation of the revised Joint Commission Medical Staff Bylaws Standard
MS.1.20; and Creating a New Future for a New Day with a Revamped Organized Medical Staff
Structure. |
Pennsylvania
Medical Society Continuing Medical Education
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The Pennsylvania Medical Society focuses on patient safety and risk management CME to help physicians meet state requirements in these areas. Studies in Patient Safety is based on real patient safety incidents reported to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority. Consult focuses on risk management and intouch helps improve communications with patients. Domestic Violence: Screen to End Abuse helps physicians create an atmosphere of trust so patients will confide in them about abuse relationships. Counter Details offers clinical CME usually produced in associating with the health care agencies of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Converge is based on a fictitious group practice: Riverside Gastroenterology. Each episode of Converge focuses on an incident at Riverside, showing how conflicts, intergenerational differences, financial concerns, and interpersonal concerns can impact the medical team and patient care. Consult , intouch and Converge are restricted to members only, while all other activities are also available to non-members. |
Radiology InfoNet
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The focus of this site has changed from clinical radiology to radiology business and management. There are nine CME offerings: Performance Evaluation and Incentive Compensation; Positioning the Radiology Service System; The Language of Senior Management ; Marketing Strategy for Success in Diagnostic Imaging; Effective Marketing of Your Radiology Practice; Presenting and Launching the Business Plan; The Radiology Business Planning Process: Theory & Application; Attracting and Retaining, Qualified Employees; and Human Behavior and Effective Organizational Architectures. Post-test answers may be submitted online, but your check for credit must be sent by mail. |
Sound
Prescribing
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As a result of participating in these modules, you should be able to: assess your relationship with the pharmaceutical industry and identify sources of bias that may inhibit proper patient care; acquire enhanced communication skills for dealing with patients' requests for direct-to-consumer advertised prescription medicine.
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Sullivan Group
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The Sullivan Group is dedicated to improving patient
safety and risk
management.
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Texas
Medical Association Ethics CME
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16 courses on physicians' health and well being. Topics include: Chemical Dependence in Physicians: Identification and Intervention; Communication Skills: Why Bother?; Coping With Stress in the Practice of Medicine; Depression and Suicide in Physicians; Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Managing Patients with Pain; Ethical Considerations in Physician Aging and Retirement; Effective Strategies for Smoking Cessation; How to Create Balance in Your Life; How to Establish a Peer Assistance Committee; Joint Commission Standard Regarding Licensed Independent Practitioner Health; Maintenance of Professional Boundaries and Effective Management of Challenging Patient Encounters; Monitoring Physicians in Recovery; Psychiatric Illness and Disruptive Behavior in Physicians; Spirituality in Medicine; The Art and Science of Happiness; and The Family In Addiction and Recovery. To apply for CME credit, print, complete, and mail a 10-item questionnaire along with payment. |
Tufts Health Care Institute |
A set of ten online courses in the area of Quality Care, Cost-Effectiveness and Care Management. Follow the "Online Learning Campus" link. These modules explore the roles of clinicians as managers of care and stewards of resources, and present strategies, tools and processes that providers can draw upon. The content relates to ACGME/ABMS competencies in Systems-Based Practice and Practice-Based Learning and Improvement. |
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine | A single course: Medical Ethics (2 credits). You must print and mail in the answer sheet along with your check in order to receive CME credit (or submit online). |
Virtual Lecture Hall
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The Virtual Lecture Hall emphasizes CME programs dealing with key ACGME competencies: communication, professionalism, and systems-based care. The site’s programs are designed to meet specific state CME mandates that apply to all licensed physicians, such as medical errors/patient safety (Florida and Pennsylvania); infection control (New York and Rhode Island); and pain management (California, Oregon, Rhode Island, and West Virginia). Current titles include: A Guide to the Secrets of Never-Sued Physicians; An Introduction to the Practice of Palliative Medicine; Communicating Through Health Care Interpreters; Current Management of Acne; Current Management of Acute HIV Infection; Current Management of Domestic Violence - Responding to IPV; Delivering Culturally Competent Care; EMTALA: An E.R. Law That Affects All Physicians; Evolving Issues in HIV Disease; Infection Control for Physicians; Improving Outcomes in Chronic Pain; Preventing and Responding to Medical Errors; Recognizing and Managing Opioid Misuse; Risk Management and the Art of Medicine; and Skin Cancer Education for Primary Care. |
Webility | A single course: Disability Prevention for Treating Clinicians: Talking About Ability to Work. After completing this course, you will know the questions that employers and insurers need treating physicians to answer in disability cases; understand the role of the physician in preventing the development of iatrogenic disability; see the connection between giving timely and adequate return-to-work advice, better patient outcomes, and improved customer satisfaction; and see how you can assist employers in reducing medically unnecessary time off work. |
WebM&M
(Morbidity and Mortality
Rounds on the Web
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Most presentations illustrate physician, nursing or pharmacist errors and focus on the prevention of such errors. Some recent cases include: Adolescent Diabetes: A Routine Visit?; Standard Deviations; Delirium or Dementia?; and Breakage of a PICC Line. |