List of Online CMEs
- Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry
- www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/CSEM/csem.html
- Audience/Specialties: Physicians, Nurses, Health professionals
- Topics: Various environmental medicine topics - substance exposure, i.e., radiation, PCBs, toluene, lead asbsetos, ect; or disease, i.e., asthma, disease clusters, pediatric issues.
- Special Features: Cases are available in both PDF/mail-in form or interactive online form.
- Registration: Required, but is free.
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- www.aafp.org/x3297.xml
- Audience/Specialties: Family Medicine
- Topics: AAFP case studies on pain & dyspepsia, AFP & FPM online case studies and interactive quizzes correlate with published articles and cover a wide range of topics, as do the online videos.
- Special Features: Simulations walk user through a complete case from initial presentation to outcomes.
A variety of formats available - interactive online quizzes, online videos or print-based monographs.
- Registration: CME modules available to all, but some limit CME credit to member physicians only.
Members of AAFP can register and have AAFP keep track of CME.
- American College of Physicians: Clinical Problem-Solving Cases
- cpsc.acponline.org/
- Audience/Specialties: Internal medicine
- Topics: Endocrinology, gastroenterology, general IM, hematology, infectious
- Special Features: Free online demo available for 3 cases. Paid subscribers have additional tools available (i.e., calculators).
- Registration: Cases are available for fee (except the complimentary ones) - registration required.
- American Medical Association CME Online Library
- www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/5008.html
- Audience/Specialties: Physicians
- Topics: Diabetes - case studies & managing, genital herpes, GERD, Hereditary cancer syndromes, identifying hereditary cancer risk, managing migraine, managing osteoporosis, and pain
- Special Features: CME available as an online program, a PDF document, or print copy can be requested. (Not all topics are available in each format).
Patient education materials are also included.
- Registration: No registration is required - CME modules available to all. Physicians will need to register to receive CME credit.
- Bio-PRN: Bioterrorism Practical Readiness Network
- bioprn.advancepcsmdnet.com
- Audience/Specialties: Clinicians
- Topics: Prepare for and deal with patients exposed to biological agents
- Special Features: Diagnostic decision trees for differentiating related diseases are particularly interesting.
- Registration: Registration only to track CME credits - modules available to all.
- Baylor College of Medicine Online CME
- www.baylorcme.org/specialty.cfm?menu_id=38
- Audience/Specialties: Internal medicine, endocrinology, oncology, surgery
- Topics: analgesic therapy, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hereditary breast & ovarian cancer, and women's health.
- Special Features: Presentations include streaming video, audio & PowerPoint slides. For those with less than high speed access, alternative options are available.
- Registration: Post-test available without registration, but application of CME credit requires registration
- CardioVillage
- www.cardiovillage.com/
- Audience/Specialties: Physicians, nurses, laboratory technicians, or patients / Cardiology -
- Topics: Cardiovascular disease, angiography, nuclear cardiology, preventive cardiology, cardiac imaging, ect.
- Special Features: Courses are tailored to specific health professionals. Great medical imagine includes MRIs, angiographs, nuclear scans or hemodynamic pressure tracings. Course available ina a variety of formats.
- Registration: Registration required - courses available free.
- CMEchannel from Healthcare Management University
- www.cmechannel.com/
- Audience/Specialties: Neurology, urology
- Topics: Issues related to outcomes management, clinical and practice management, health care economics, and enhanced patient care in these specialties.
- Special Features: Courses include a mix of text, video, audio, and graphics. Many can be complete in an hour or less.
- Registration: Courses available to all, but CME credits require registration.
- CME Corner
- www.cmecorner.com
- Audience/Specialties: Physicians, pharmacists & nurses
- Topics: Over 40 courses available - key topics are cardiovascular, psychiatry, gi, and pulmonary.
- Special Features: Most modules are online; some are available on CD-Rom or as monographs.
- Registration: Courses available to all, but registration required to take the post-test & obtain CME/CE credit.
- Cyberounds
- www.cyberounds.com/
- Audience/Specialties: Physicians
- Topics: Ground Rounds in 15 specialties (nearly 200 available).
- Special Features: Rounds are moderated by distinguished academics.
"Cardio Country Club" - earn CME credits by playing on an educational golf course that will test your knowledge of cardiovascular medicine. The "Country Club" is available free.
- Registration: Requires registration and courses available for a fee.
- FamilyPractice.com: Patient Cases
- familypractice.com/cases/casesframe.htm
- Audience/Specialties: Primary care physicians
- Topics: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism, osteoarthritis, and pulmonary thromboembolism.
- Special Features: Interactive case presentations with review of systems section help sharpen interviewing and diagnostic skills.
Teen smoking cessation module sponsored, in part, by Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Registration: Courses free to all, but CME credit requires registration.
- Geriatric Grand Rounds Lectures
- www.virginiageriatrics.org/grounds/index.html
- Audience/Specialties: Geriatrics
- Topics: Nearly 40 grand rounds lectures available - focus is on physical & practical aspects of conditions & care.
- Special Features: 45-50 minute audio/PowerPoint presentations
- Registration: Available to all users
- HemostasisCME.org
- www.hemostasiscme.org/
- Audience/Specialties: Surgery, trauma, general medicine
- Topics: Hemostasis
- Special Features: Registered users can download slide presentations. Formats of courses includes webcasts, slide presentations, audio-only, and PDF-only for a few.
- Registration: Courses are free - registration is suggested.
- Johns Hopkins: Advanced Studies in Medicine
- www.jhasim.com/htmlfiles/cme_prog.html
- Audience/Specialties: Clinicians
- Topics: Cardiology, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, oncology, pain, pediatrics, psychiatry, surgery, women's health, and others.
- Special Features: Full-text from Consensus Conferences, Educational Roundtables
Medical Meeting Symposia, Paper Symposia, and Advisory Board Meetings.
Johns Hopkins' catalog of online CME courses
- Registration: Courses available free, but CME credit requires registration.
- MDConsult: Learning Center (for UIC Faculty/Staff/Students only)
- www.mdconsult.com
- Audience/Specialties: Grand Rounds available in 15 specialty areas.
- Topics: Nearly 200 Grand Rounds activities on a variety of topics including emergency medicine, health law & bioethics, lab medicine, genetics and women's health (from the Cyberounds CME web site).
- Special Features: New conferences added monthly.
- Registration: MDConsult personal account registration required and Cyberounds registration required.
MDConsult users are eligible for 5 free CME Ground Rounds.
- MedConnect
- www.medconnect.com
- Audience/Specialties: Physician, pharmacists & nurses
- Topics: Emergency medicine, Family Practice,
- Special Features: Throughout the course, hyperlinks to external web sites are available that allow exploration of the topic in more detail than presented in this course.
- Registration: Registration required, but courses are free.
- MedCases CME Portal
- www.medcases.com/Physician/cme_portal.asp
- Audience/Specialties: Primary care physicians
- Topics: Emerging trends, prevention & treatment, paradigm shifts, and others in the areas of ADHD, COPD, IBS, SARS, hypertension, and heart failure.
- Special Features: CME activity of the month. Presentations are very sophisticated and elaborate - some provide over 20 CME credit hours. Focus is on new therapeutic approaches.
- Registration: Required, but courses are free.
- Meniscus
- www.meniscus.com/web/frames/fseduprof.htm
- Audience/Specialties: Physicians, pharmacists, nurses
- Topics: Oncology emphasis, but also includes women's health, neurology & pulmonology.
- Special Features: CE Express is designed in short modules (15 - 30 minutes) instead of an hour-long program. A variety of formats: web-based, audio, print, or CD-Rom.
- Registration: Courses are available free, but registration required to fill out evaluation and obtain credit for CME/CE.
- PainEDU.com from Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- www.painEDU.org/course.asp
- Audience/Specialties: Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and psychologists
- Topics: Pain assessment & pain management
- Special Features: Interactive case-based learning modules
- Registration: Required and only for health professionals, but courses are free
- Public Health Training Network: Training & Continuing Education Online
- www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtnonline/
- Audience/Specialties: Wide spectrum of health professionals
- Topics: Infectious diseases & bioterrorism, epidemiology, risk communication, leadership, and safety
- Special Features: A myriad of topics. Webcast may be for future events or coverage of previous ones.
- Registration: Required to enroll in any of the courses, but all are free.
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