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NEW! PharmedOut CME Modules
- Pharmalyzer: Are you prescribing under the influence?
Credits available: CME 3.00 Expires 3/30/12
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- Drug Approval in the US: How Drugs get to Market
Credits available: CME 1.00
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- Generic Drugs: Prescribing Sensibly
Credits available: CME 1.00 Expires 3/13/11
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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
Expires 2/28/13
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
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) offers epidemiology case studies. Register or log-in Expires 3/31/13
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.
Recommendations for Postexposure Interventions to Prevent Infection with Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatitis C Virus, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and Tetanus in Persons Wounded During Bombings and Similar Mass-Casualty Events — United States, 2008: Recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Credits available: CME 2.50 CNE 2.50 CEU 0.20
Expires 08/01/10
Other web-based courses offered by CDC:
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Primer for Allied Health Professionals
Credits available: CME 2.50 CNE 2.80 CEU 0.20
Expires 06/30/12
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Diagnosis and Management
Credits available: CME 2.00 CNE 2.00 CEU 0.20
Expires 06/30/12
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 10/9/11
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
Building Relationships with Native American Populations 101
Credits available: CME 6.00 CNE 6.00 CEU 0.60
Expires 01/31/11
Diabetes and Depression in the Workplace
Credits available: CME 1.25 CNE 1.25 CEU 0.10
Expires 03/03/11
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) offers case studies in environmental medicine (listed below.)
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine: Asbestos Toxicity
Credits available: CME 2.00 CNE 2.00 CEU 0.20
Expires 06/18/10
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine: Environmental Triggers of Asthma
Credits available: CME 1.50 CNE 1.80 CEU 0.15
Expires 10/17/10
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine: Beryllium Toxicity
Credits available: CME 1.50 CNE 1.50 CEU 0.15
Expires 05/23/11
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
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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
Clinical Directors Network, a not-for-profit network that supports community health centers, offers CME.
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)
Expires 4/17/11
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Off-label promotion under the radar
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The Art of Medical Writing
Pharma's anonymous writers
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Drug reps continue their chat
Drug Reps Talk Shop I Selling drugs to docs
Director of PharmedOut Explains the Project
Zyprexa Drug Rep Tells All Shahram Ahari describes how he sold the drug
News
Drug Firms Turn to Private Docs to Promote Products
University ethics policies tightened Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
J&J Pushed Risperdal After Warning, Files Show
FDA ignored; CME supported off-label uses Bloomberg
NIH Should Disclose Financial Conflicts
Public database requested Pharmalot
Diabetes Heart Treatments May Cause Harm
Normalizing BP and postprandial hyperglycemia don't help NYT
Grassley Tells PBMs To Disclose Ties To Pharma
Drugmakers may provide financial benefits Pharmalot
Analysis Finds Vioxx's Heart Attack Risk in 2001
35% increase in CV events WSJ
States, Consumer Advocates Challenge Rx Data Mining
FDA has been silent Chicago Tribune
Researcher Seeks New Treatments in Old Drugs
Bioinformatics promising Houston Chronicle
Some Doctors Say No More Free Lunches
“Goodies” are a conflict of interest Rapid City Journal
Study Raises Questions About Cholesterol Drug’s Benefit
Niacin bests Zetia NYT
Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform
Wholesale prices up 9% NYT
Commentary
Mammography and the Corporate Breast
Conflicts of USPSTF critics not mentioned Bioethics Forum
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