Internal Medicine CME Courses
Internal Medicine CME Courses
Each year, there are a staggering number of critical updates to learn and incorporate into your internal medicine practice. The 42nd Annual Intensive Review of Internal Medicine synthesizes these updates, presenting them with efficiency and effectiveness in order to help you stay current, ensure optimal outcomes, and prepare for ABIM board exams. This CME program includes 138 lectures by Harvard Medical School's most distinguished clinical faculty, who share insight on key topics like:
- PCSK9 inhibitors for patients with heart disease
- Immunotherapy for cancer
- Treatment of highly resistant infections
- Novel therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- And many more
Chronic Conditions in Young Adults: Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care provides state-of-the-art strategies to help you effectively and efficiently transition these patients into your practice. This in-depth CME course includes case-based lectures on topics like congenital heart disease, diabetes, spina bifida, cancer survivorship, cardiovascular risk reduction, solid organ transplant, substance use disorder, and more. It will help you to better:
- Develop and implement practical strategies to transfer and accept patients with chronic conditions
- Navigate healthcare systems and their impact on transition to adult care
- Adhere to best practices for communication and goal setting with patients and families
- Get updates for sexuality and fertility with chronic disease
- Enhance your approach to patient and family engagement in chronic condition management and help them achieve health equity
Intensive Review of Nephrology is a case-based, comprehensive look at new developments and updates in the field. Led by renowned nephrologists, lecturers shed light on state-of-the-art practices, clinical challenges, and a wide array of topics, including membranous nephropathy, acidosis, alkalosis, genetics and kidney disease, pediatric nephrology, acute kidney injury syndromes, geriatric nephrology, and more. This CME program will help you to better:
- Summarize currently recommended nephrology guidelines
- Explain the differential diagnosis of complex clinical presentations of renal disorders
- Incorporate current therapeutic options for specific renal disorders
- Interpret up-to-date literature relevant to clinical practice
- Describe pathophysiological mechanisms for renal disease management
- Prepare for ABIM Nephrology certification/recertification examinations
Connect with the Experts.
Packed with the latest diagnostic approaches and management strategies, the MKSAP® 18 Audio Companion provides comprehensive, go-anywhere audio coverage of recent clinical advances and treatment guidelines across 11 internal medicine subspecialties. Listen as your host Donald L. Deye, MD, FACP, leads lively discussions with esteemed colleagues in each area. Experienced clinicians, program directors, and department chairs from some of the world's finest medical institutions share patient stories, insightful views on new treatments, and more.
Stay Abreast of Advances in Neurological Medicine
As new neurological therapeutics become available, it can be difficult for the non-neurologist to stay abreast. It is important that these clinicians — often the first a patient consults — are familiar with the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, management, and prognosis associated with neurological conditions.
Neurology for Non-Neurologists covers the full scope of clinical neurology: commonly encountered patient complaints such as dizziness, back pain, seizures, and movement disorders, as well as special, common topics that can be mis- or underdiagnosed. Speakers in this online CME course are highly skilled with vast experience educating non-neurologists.
This CME program from Johns Hopkins — the leader in perioperative medicine — focuses on current and concise knowledge to improve patient outcomes through preoperative evaluation, intraoperative management, and postoperative care. Perioperative Management includes case-based lectures on topics like cardiac and pulmonary risk assessment, perioperative renal dysfunction, pain management, management of diabetes and hyperglycemia, and more. It will also help you to better:
- Illustrate effective management of bleeding and thrombotic risks in surgical patients
- Identify strategies for controlling postoperative pain and reducing opioid dependency
- Outline ways to prevent, diagnose and treat common infections that complicate surgical procedures
- Discuss multi-disciplinary approaches to minimize complications and improve patient outcomes
Practical Reviews is a fast, effective way to stay on top of new medical information and earn online CME. Featuring expert audio, text commentary and relevant clinical tips, articles are hand-selected from leading medical journals across 20 specialties. Subscribe today and choose a special discount or an Amazon.com Gift Card!
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Practical Reviews is just that — practical, expert reviews of the most significant articles from the top medical journals. This time-saving information management tool helps you understand what’s relevant to your practice, and keeps you on the cutting edge of patient care. Explore reviews in your specialty plus 19 others. These engaging audio commentaries and written summaries focus on the hottest topics, newest technologies, groundbreaking clinical tests, and more.
It takes just 15 minutes to read the summary, listen to the commentary, take a quiz and earn credit. A subscription includes access to the online database, audio, PDF abstracts and quizzes, not to mention the free app. You can also add audio CDs and printed abstracts, which we'll mail directly to you each month.
Evaluate and Treat Sports-Related Injuries with Confidence
In Sports Medicine for Primary Care, you’ll learn to recognize, diagnose, and treat sports medicine injuries you encounter on the field or in the office. Get up to speed on current treatment protocols and return-to-play guidelines, and earn CME credits from your home or office with this specialty review course from Oakstone. Benefit from the expertise of American Sports Medicine Institute specialists who help you:
- Evaluate emergent and non-emergent injuries
- Gain knowledge on spinal and extremity injuries, concussions, cardiac issues, infections common in sports, nutrition, heat illness, tendon injuries, and issues specific to the female athlete
- Learn regenerative medicine options for chronic injuries where other treatments have failed
- Effectively cover a sporting event, including sideline coverage, with the proper diagnostic, treatment and testing tools (including sideline concussion tests)
UCSF Advances in Internal Medicine is extremely thorough and helps you keep up with recent developments and current trends in the field. Led by H. Quinny Cheng, MD, it covers a wide range of topics in 11 subspecialty areas, including cardiology, geriatrics, endocrinology, gastroenterology, women's health, pulmonology, neurology, and more. This CME program will help you to better:
- Illustrate adept management of chronic medical problems such as hyperlipidemia, diabetes, osteoporosis, gout, and chronic pain
- Manage acute conditions such as skin and soft tissue infections, STDs, and sports-related injuries
- Effectively diagnose and treat medical problems usually treated by specialists, such as heart failure, hepatitis B & C, end-of-life care, and rheumatoid arthritis
- Integrate recent guidelines and current evidence into daily practice relevant to atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, anticoagulation management, chronic kidney disease, and preoperative medical evaluation
UCSF Hot Topics in Primary Care Medicine presents a comprehensive review of new developments in outpatient medicine, with emphasis on the day-to-day controversies of office practice. Led by Robert B. Baron, MD, MS, this CME program highlights best practice guidelines for a range of topics, from cancer screening and allergy and immunology, to current approaches to gout, depression, dermatology, sports medicine, osteoporosis, and more.
It will help you to better:
- Manage common problems including high cholesterol, coronary heart disease, asthma, COPD, stroke, TIAs, vertigo, STDs, diabetes, hearing loss, sinusitis, substance abuse, and more
- Diagnose and treat special problems in womens health
- Select the best diagnostic tests
- Understand health disparities and your role in providing equitable, patient-centered care
This is an online, self online CME self-learning program for therapeutic updates, best practices, and emerging therapies for Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a chronic, acquired, autoimmune disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system. Occurring at an incidence of 4-9 people per 100,000, CIDP most commonly occurs in adults aged of 40 to 60, although it may also occur in children and the elderly.
By the end of the session the participant will be able to:
- Describe the pathophysiology of CIDP such that it might inform treatment mechanisms
- Identify the currently available and emerging pharmacotherapeutic treatments for management of CIDP and apply them to patient cases using evidence-based medicine
- Modify an existing treatment plan for a specific patient with CIDP to optimize safety and efficacy following non-response to therapy
- Describe non-pharmacological options to manage CIDP
Meetings By Mail presents Cleveland Clinic’s Fundamental to Advanced Echocardiography. This activity meets Echocardiography Lab CME requirements for Physicians and Sonographers, and is also worth 21 ABIM MOC pointsThe program highlights practical issues in echocardiography, including new imaging technologies, multimodality imaging, the role of echo in clinical practice and guidance for structural heart interventions, as well as a focus on innovations. Several workshops will provide clinical guidance on echo’s optimal uses.
Topics include assessment of the Left Ventricle, Valvular Heart Disease, 3D Echo, Strain, Pericardial and Myocardial Disease, Stress Echo, Advanced Techniques, Lab Fundamentals, Structural Heart Disease and much more!
Developed by TMCI Global and the Society of Cannabis Clinicians (SCC), the Clinical Cannabinoid Medicine Curriclum is the first comprehensive, online CME-certified curriculum designed to educate the practicing clinician on both the research and clinical practice aspects of the therapeutic use of cannabis. Each course within the curriculum offers up to 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and the complete curriculum is certified for up to 13 CME credits.
You Will Learn About
- The fundamentals of the Endocannabinoid System
- The use of cannabis in a clinical setting
- The delivery and dosage of medical cannabis
- Mental health and the psychiatric application of medical cannabis
* Includes a bonus module on Cannabinoid Chemistry authored by Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, a professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in israel and leading authority on Medical Cannabis science.
Target Audience: All healthcare practitioners; the curriculum was designed to educate the practicing clinician on both the research and clinical practice aspects of the therapeutic use of cannabis.
Purchase grants one learner one year’s access to lessons and quizzes (access expires 365 days from date of course activation).
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the problem of “financial harm” for individual patients
- List the three steps of the “First, Do No Financial Harm” framework
- Demonstrate strategies for discussing costs and the value of recommended medical procedures with price-sensitive patients
This course covers 20 of the most essential procedures needed to work in the ER, ICU, and hospital wards, including the procedures needed for trauma management in the ER, and includes 4 hours of hands-on ultrasound education. Course topics cover vascular access, arterial line placement, point-of-care ultrasound, mechanical ventilation, informed consent, procedural sedation, tube thoracostomy, thoracentesis, lumbar puncture, paracentesis, airway management. Lab skills cover vascular access, ultrasound, airway management, lumbar puncture, thoracentesis, chest tube placement, paracentesis, pneumothorax evacuation, and needle decompression. Accredited by Postgraduate Institute of Medicine. Save $50-$150 with early registration at least 30 days before start of course. Exciting locations including Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington D.C., San Antonio, Seattle, and Long Beach.
This course covers 20 of the most essential procedures needed to work in the ER, ICU, and hospital wards, including the procedures needed for trauma management in the ER, and includes 4 hours of hands-on ultrasound education. Course topics cover vascular access, arterial line placement, point-of-care ultrasound, mechanical ventilation, informed consent, procedural sedation, tube thoracostomy, thoracentesis, lumbar puncture, paracentesis, airway management. Lab skills cover vascular access, ultrasound, airway management, lumbar puncture, thoracentesis, chest tube placement, paracentesis, pneumothorax evacuation, and needle decompression. Accredited by Postgraduate Institute of Medicine. Save $100-$150 with early registration at least 30 days before start of course. Exciting locations including Las Vegas, Chicago, Washington D.C., and San Antonio
By the end of the session the participant will be able to:
- Describe the role of the immune system in cancer and cancer therapy in metastatic melanoma.
- Distinguish between the different forms of therapy presently approved for metastatic melanoma and apply them to practice, taking into account the following: treatment modalities and the recent clinical trial evidence supporting them.
- Describe emerging (investigational) therapies for metastatic melanoma
- Describe the challenges and barriers to care associated with treating patients with metastatic melanoma
Speakers
- George T. Grossberg, MD Samuel W. Fordyce Professor; Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
- David Beck, MD Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Topic and Learning Objectives
- Identify different and various forms of agitation among patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).
- Review proposed mechanisms underlying agitation in AD and how pharmacologic agents may affect them
- Evaluate body of evidence of current and emerging pharmacologic agents for the management of agitation/aggression in patients with AD
- Define the indications and contraindications for the hospital procedures
- Identify the pertinent anatomy, patient positioning and proper technique for hospital procedures
- Understand the common complications of the various procedures
- Choose the appropriate management of complications should they occur
- Choose appropriate options for oral or intravenous procedural sedation
- Perform basic diagnostic ultrasound
- Utilize the ultrasound to assist with hospital procedures
- Understand the basic principles of mechanical ventilation
- Properly code and document for hospital procedures
By the end of the session the participant will be able to:
- Describe the role of the immune system in cancer and cancer therapy in metastatic melanoma.
- Distinguish between the different forms of therapy presently approved for metastatic melanoma and apply them to practice, taking into account the following: treatment modalities and the recent clinical trial evidence supporting them.
- Describe emerging (investigational) therapies for metastatic melanoma
- Describe the challenges and barriers to care associated with treating patients with metastatic melanoma