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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
Free registration is required to access the site. Search through over 400 online CME activities created by various CME providers. This system also allows you to track your continuing education credits from both online and offline activities.
In addition to offering free online CME courses and weekly cases, CME Academy has information on CME activities in different geographic areas across the country. Their CME Resources link is a directory of online CME sites.
The list includes online and software resources. It is organized into specialty categories with an inclusive grouping of "multiple specialty" category.
Listing of over 150 courses in multiple specialties developed by Medscape editors or partners. Also available is the CME Tracker, which allows registered users to keep track of all their different CME activities and certificates.
