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NEW! PharmedOut CME Modules
Drug Approval in the US: How Drugs get to Market
Credits available: CME 1.00
Generic Drugs: Prescribing Sensibly
Credits available: CME 1.00 Expires 3/13/11
Northeastern Ohio Universities Collegse of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) Information Mastery Practicum: How to Select and Use the Best Hunting and Foraging Tools
Credits available: CME 2.50 CEU 0.25 (Pharmacy)
Expires 6/6/11
Northeastern Ohio Universities Collegse of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) What's Hype? What's Right? Assessing New Information from Pharm Reps to the Latest Journals
Credits available: CME 2.00 CEU 0.20 (Pharmacy)
Expires 1/1/11
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) offers CME credits on the following:
An Introduction to the Improved FDA Prescription Drug Labeling
Credits available: CME 1.00 CNE 1.00 CPE 0.10
Expires 11/22/10
Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), NIH offers a course on Sex and Gender. All six sections must be completed to receive CME credit.
Credits available: CME 6.00
No expiration date listed
Office of Minority Health offers Cultural Competence courses.
Credits available: CME 9.00 CEU (Nursing) 9.00 CEU (Pharmacy) 9.0
Expires 12/31/08
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), NIH offers a series of online video lectures that can be taken for CME and CEU credit. Register
Credits available: CME 8.00 (1 credit per lecture) CNE 9.60
- Overview of CAM
- Herbs and Other Dietary Supplements
- Mind-Body Medicine
- Acupuncture: An Evidence-Based Assessment
- Manipulative and Body-Based Therapies: Chiropractic and Spinal Manipulation
- CAM and Aging
- Integrative Medicine
- Health and Spirituality
The Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality (AHRQ) site on Mortality and Morbidity has “Spotlight modules” which are actual case studies with “expert commentary addressing issues of patient safety and medical errors.”Register or log-in
Credits available: CME maximum of 12.0 (1.0 per case)—
also accepted by the ANCC
Expires 03/01/09
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Hospital Medicine
Triple Handoff
Medicine
Elopement
Antiseizure Medication Disorder
Resuscitation Errors: A Shocking Problem
Hidden Heparins: HIT Happens
Public Reporting of Hospital Quality
Physical Diagnosis: A Lost Art?
Double Trouble
Nursing
Moving Pains
Pediatrics
Failure to Report
The "Customer" Is Always Right
Radiology
The Wet Read
Surgery/Anesthesia
Do Not Disturb!
Medication Reconciliation: Whose Job Is It?
Beeline to Spine
Right? Left? Neither!
Is the "Surgical Personality" a Threat to Patient Safety?
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) offers epidemiology case studies. Register or log-in
Gastroenteritis at a University in Texas (CB3076)
Credits available: CME 2.75 CNE 3.20 CEU 0.25
Expires 01/17/09
This STD Clinical Intensive CME module, hosted by the Boston University School of Medicine and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is designed to increase the knowledge and skills of primary care providers and obstetricians/gynecologists in the recognition and treatment of sexually transmitted infections.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers over 60 CME credits (listed below) for reading selected MMWR articles.
Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
Credits available: CME 3.25 CNE 3.80 CEU 0.30
Expires 05/27/08
Guidelines for the Investigation of Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis: Recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and CDC
Credits available: CME 2.75 CNE 3.20 CEU 0.25
Expires 12/16/08
A Comprehensive Immunization Strategy to Eliminate Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in the United States: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Part 1: Immunization of Infants, Children, and Adolescents
Credits available: CME 3.25 CNE 3.80 CEU 0.30
Expires 12/23/08
Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings, 2005
Credits available: CME 3.50 CNE 4.00 CEU 0.35
Expires 12/30/08
Surveillance Guidelines for Smallpox Vaccine (vaccinia) Adverse Reactions
Credits available: CME 1.75 CNE 1.90 CEU 0.15
Expires 02/3/09
Preventing Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis Among Adolescents: Use of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
Credits available: CME 2.75 CNE 3.10 CPE 0.25 CEU 0.25
Expires 03/24/09
Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care --- United States: A Report of the CDC/ATSDR Preconception Care Work Group and the Select Panel on Preconception Care
Credits available: CME 1.75 CNE 2.00 CEU 0.15
Expires 04/21/09
Prevention of Hepatitis A Through Active or Passive Immunization: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
Credits available: CME 2.50 CNE 2.80 CEU 0.20
Expires 05/19/09
Mold Prevention Strategies and Possible: Health Effects in the Aftermath of Hurricanes and Major Floods
Credits available: CME 2.50 CNE 3.00 CEU 0.25
Expires 06/9/09
Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional and Detention Facilities: Recommendations from CDC Endorsed by the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, and the American Correctional Association
Credits available: CME 2.10 CNE 2.50 CEU 0.20
Expires 07/7/09
Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health-Care Settings
Credits available: CME 1.80 CNE 1.80 CEU 0.18
Expires 09/22/09
Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice, Third Edition provides an introduction to applied epidemiology and biostatistics; it consists of six lessons: Introduction to Epidemiology, Summarizing Data, Measures of Risk, Displaying Public Health Data, Public Health Surveillance, and Investigating an Outbreak.
Credits available: CME 17.0 CNE 17.0 CPE 1.70 CEU 1.70
Expires 09/30/09
Other web-based courses offered by CDC:
A New Era in Newborn Screening - Saving Lives, Improving Outcomes (Webcast on Demand)
Credits available: CME 2.00 CNE 2.40 CEU 0.20
Expires 09/19/08
Immunization: You Call the Shots – Module Three: Polio (Web-based)
Credits available: CME 1.00 CNE 1.20 CPE 0.10
CEU credits available: 0.10
Expires 10/24/08
Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (Web on Demand)
Credits available: CME 3.00 CNE 3.40 CEU 0.30
Expires 01/17/09
Immunization: You Call the Shots – Module Four: Hib (Web-based)
Credits available: CME 1.50 CNE 1.70 CPE 0.15
CEU credits available: 0.15
Expires 02/15/09
Radiological Terrorism: Medical Response to Mass Casualties (Web-based)
Credits available: CME 2.00 CNE 2.40
Expires 03/31/09
Viral Hepatitis Serology: Hepatitis A-E (Web-based)
Credits available: CME 1.50 CNE 1.60
Expires 04/01/09
Preparing for Radiological Population Monitoring and Decontamination (Web on Demand)
Credits available: CME 2.00 CNE 2.30 CEU 0.10
Expires 04/12/09
Immunization: You Call the Shots – Module Six: Hepatitis A (Web-based)
Credits available: CME 1.25 CNE 1.25 CPE 0.15
CEU credits available: 0.15
Expires 04/30/09
Hemochromatosis: What Every Clinician and Health Care Professional Needs to Know
Credits available: CME 2.25 CNE 2.50 CEU 0.20
Expires 06/30/09
Disaster Behavioral Health: Tools & Resources for the WA State Healthcare Workforce (Web-based)
Credits available: CME 1.00 CNE 1.00 CEU 0.10
Expires 07/01/09
Self-Study Modules on Tuberculosis: Modules 6-9
Credits available: CME 16.0 CNE 16.0 CEU 1.60
Expires 09/19/09
Immunization: You Call the Shots – Module Five: Influenza (Web-based)
Credits available: CME 1.50 CNE 1.50 CPE 0.10
CEU credits available: 0.10
Expires 12/01/09
Immunization: You Call the Shots – Module One: Understanding the Basics: General Recommendations (Web-based)
Credits available: CME 1.75 CNE 1.90 CPE 0.15 CEU 0.15
Expires 01/12/11
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) offers case studies in environmental medicine (listed below.)
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine: Pediatric Environmental Health
Credits available: CME 2.00 CNE 2.30 CEU 0.20
Expires 06/29/08
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine (CSEM): Disease Clusters: An Overview
Credits available: CME 1.50 CNE 1.60 CEU 0.10
Expires 09/29/08
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine (CSEM): Radiation Exposure from Iodine 131
Credits available: CME 2.25 CNE 2.50 CEU 0.20Expires 11/29/08
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine (CSEM): Environmental Triggers of Asthma
Credits available: CME 1.50 CNE 1.80 CEU 0.15
Expires 10/17/10
Radiology Cases
MedPix COW (Case of the Week) hosted by the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS)
Credits available: CME 1.00 (per 4 cases) CNE 1.20 (per 4 cases)
No expiration date listed
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Vermont Doctors Collect Millions from Drug Firms
Psychiatrists head the list Burlington Free Press (read VT AG report)
Drug Industry to Announce Revised Code on Marketing
Bans the pens, keeps the food NYT (read PhRMA press release; WSJ blog)
Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties
30% of APA's funding from pharma NYT
Follow-up Drug Studies are Becoming More Routine
Postmarketing studies required for 75% of new drugs Boston Globe
Brazil Launches Cheap New Malaria Pill
Patent-free treatment Windsor Star
Pill-popping Pets
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Drugmakers Offer Aid To People 'On the Edge'
Needymeds site underutilized WP
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“Think tanks” distorting health care debate Bioethics Forum
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