Multiple Sclerosis CME

ScientiaCME Neuropsychiatry – Neurology contains 2 lectures:

• Highlights from the 2014 American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting: Take-Aways, Emerging Practice Changes, and Barriers to their Implementation in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (1 hr CME)
• Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in a Primary Care Setting: Employing Strategies for Appropriate Diagnosis and Improved Patient Outcomes (1 hr CME)

Target Audience: Neurologists

AIMS: Advances in Multiple Sclerosis is designed to provide high-quality, up-to-date information on advances in the treatment of MS. The following topics are discussed:
• The latest clinical information on the management of MS patients, patient education tools, and resources
• Early MS/CIS/RIS
• Switching Therapy and JCV
• Recent Advances in Treating Multiple Sclerosis: Efficacy, Risks and Place in Therapy
• Monitoring and Improving Patient Adherence to Therapy
• Vitamin D Status Predicts New Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Activity in Multiple Sclerosis

Target Audience:
Neurologists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, other health care providers involved in the management of MS.

Activities fall into these groups:
• Case Reports
Examples: Acute Paralytic Poliomyelitis; Acute Retrohumeral Radial Neuropathies; Alcoholic Polyneuropathy.
• Case Studies
Examples: Acute Facial Diplegia and Adult Acid Maltase Deficiency.
• Course Book
Examples: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from A to Z and HIV, Bracing, and Neuromuscular Vignettes.
• Guidelines
Examples: Distal Symmetric Polyneuropathy; Electrodiagnostic Studies in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
• Journal Review
Examples: Acetycholinesterase Inhibitors in MG: to be or not to be? and Applying Proteomics to the Diagnosis and Treatment of ALS and Related Diseases.

Target Audience:
Physicians who have an interest in treating patients with muscle and nerve disorders

CME activities of special interest to neurologists and 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.

CLINICAL BRIEFS – Daily reports of major current medical research articles; 0.25 credits each

JOURNAL CME – Articles selected from a wide selection of peer-reviewed journals.

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. (See especially eMedicine CME Case Presentations.)

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.

Target Audience: Neurologists