Online CME

The following are learning opportunities available for all health care professionals.

Cancer

 
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How Can You Improve Care For Your Patients (15-39 years of age) With Cancer?
Join the discussion with the Focus Under Forty Primary Care Role Learning Module.

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Gout

 

Advances in the Management of Gout:
Issues and Answers
This activity consists of didactic lectures by rheumatology experts, who discuss how to address challenges and allow for rheumatology clinicians to best consider the latest data and advances in diagnosis and treatment for chronic, advanced gout. Additional clinicians who may be interested in this educational activity include podiatrists, nephrologists, primary care, and allied healthcare professionals (physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses) who diagnose, treat, and manage patients with gout. Expires 2/10/2013
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Overactive Bladder

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Managing Bladder Functions of Your Patients as They Age
This enduring activity is designed to address issues of urinary incontinence and other urinary conditions in aging patients, including the safety risk of falls as a result of incontinence and nocturia and unique communication and therapy considerations of older adults. Expires 9/29/12
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Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms: BPH vs OAB?
This activity focuses on evaluating male lower urinary tract symptoms for differential diagnosis of OAB versus BPH. Expires 5/15/2012
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Smoking Cessation

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Take 2 Minutes to Quit: Smoking Cessation Brief Intervention
This activity is designed for all healthcare professionals, whose scope of practice includes patients who use tobacco and who are interested in increasing smoking quit rates within their healthcare setting. Expires 9/27/2012
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Do Ask, Do Tell: The 5 A's for Successful Smoking Cessation
This online activity is designed to guide clinicians through the evidence-based methods for addressing smoking with patients (via the "5 A's" framework), covering key points and practical tips to overcome common barriers. Downloadable tools are also provided to help clinicians implement the 5 A's in clinical practice.  Expires 12/31/2012
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Quick Quizzes: Help Mental Health Patients Quit Smoking
This series of short, interactive case-based activities walks learners through common clinical scenarios with several decision-making points around the care of patients presenting with nicotine dependence and comorbid mental health disorders.  Expires 12/31/2012
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CS2day Performance Improvement
The innovative format provides self-directed learning aimed at helping you locate gaps in your practice.  During the self-assessment process, you'll locate these gaps, identify a plan for change and improvement and implement them into your practice.  Expires 7/9/2012
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Tackling Smoking Cessation in Patients with Psychiatric Disorders: Can We? Should We?
This activity is designed to provide a discussion of the issues and barriers physicians face in assisting patients who have psychopathology with smoking cessation efforts. Utilizing short clinical case scenarios and slides to highlight key teaching points, the discussion focuses on helping physicians overcome barriers to applying the most relevant clinical guideline recommendations. The activity will also focus on managing patients through multiple quit attempts and assisting patients who have successfully quit to remain tobacco free. Expires 12/31/2012
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Approaching Smoking Cessation in a Patient With Alcohol Use Disorder
This interactive, case-based activity walks learners through an unfolding clinical scenario with several decision-making points around the management of a patient presenting with nicotine dependence and comorbid alcohol use disorder. Key points and practical tips on overcoming common barriers will be presented. Downloadable tools are also provided to help clinicians in their practice.  Expires 12/31/2012
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Motivational Interviewing in Healthcare: What Is It and Why Use It?
Introduces the concept of motivational interviewing and its value in helping patients who smoke to consider a quit attempt, as well as its application to other areas of health behavior change. Includes video demonstrations.
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Treating Nicotine Dependence Among Patients with Mental Health or Addictive Disorders

Dispels common misperceptions and summarizes the evidence on assisting patients with mental health and addictive disorders to quit smoking, including patients with depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, substance use disorders, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. Practical issues such as intervention timing and collaborating with other treatment team members are also discussed.

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Fibromyalgia


 

Debates and Directions in Fibromyalgia: Recognizing Signs and Selecting the Appropriate Paths

A series of four modules, including an advanced, interactive differential diagnosis tutor to help primary care physicians recognize, diagnose, treat and manage fibromyalgia. Expires 10/31/2012

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