Administrative
- AAFP Family Practice Management
Presented by: American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Accrediting institution: American Academy of Family Physicians
Release date: Current issue (monthly) and preceeding 12 months
Type: Full-text articles with tables and graphics
Content: Online articles and quiz for current issue and those within the past 12 months are identical to journal version. Available to everyone, but only AAFP members can earn CME online; non-members must submit the journal's CME form.
Approved for: AMA, AAFP
Hours: 3-4 per issue
Fee: No cost, but AAFP membership required
URL: www.aafp.org/fpm/
Site last visited: 1/00
- AFIP Legal Medicine
Presented by: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Accrediting institution: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Release date: 1999-2000
Type: Full-text articles
Content: Readable, referenced articles from Legal Medicine, published annually. Topics are at the crossroads of academic, judicial, and medical issues. Articles are downloaded as small PDF files. Quiz and payment can be transmitted electronically or via surface mail.
Approved for: AMA, AOA
Hours: 5 per issue
Fee: No cost to full-time military and federal health care providers; the rest of us pay $25 per issue
URL: www.afip.org/legalmed/lmof.html
Site last visited: May 2001
- The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) and the Physician's Office Laboratory
Presented by: U Iowa's Virtual Hospital
Accrediting institution: University of Iowa
Release date: 1995 (last reviewed 1998)
Type: Full-text articles
Content: "The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988 (CLIA '88) has drastically altered the management and use of the physician's office laboratory. Physicians who had managed a clinical laboratory as part of their practice for one year before the implementation of the law are effectively "grandfathered" in meeting the qualifications to be a director of a moderately complex laboratory. Those physicians who completed resident training after September 1, 1993, or have no previous experience as laboratory directors need 20 hours of continuing medical education credit in clinical laboratory practice in order to qualify as a laboratory director of a moderately complex laboratory....The rules are specific as to what this training must entail. It cannot consist only of how to order and interpret laboratory tests. The training must include preanalytic, analytic, and postanalytic phases of testing and provide the physician with training equivalent to one year of laboratory directorship....This course will eventually offer up to 20 hours of AMA Category 1 continuing medical education credit that will qualify physicians to be directors of moderately complex laboratories." The course supports a search engine, and nice links to related Web sites. Content is freely available and quizzes can be submitted electronically, but payment is made and certificates mailed using surface mail.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per module
Fee: $50 registration fee, then $15 per module
URL: www.vh.org/Providers/CME/CLIA/CLIAHP.html
Site last visited: 1/00
- MedEdCME
Presented by: Indiana State Medical Association
Accrediting institution: Indiana State Medical Association
Release date: 2001
Type: audio slide shows with transcripts
Content: Basic training in compliance with healthcare and federal guidelines for physicians, practice managers, clinical and office staff and other health care professionals. Five courses at present, in ICD-9 and CPT-4 coding, Stark II, HIPAA, and OIG compliance. Note that credit card information is required before accessing content, and there is no demo.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1
Fee: $15
URL: www.mededcme.com
Site last visited: August 2001
- MedRisk Online
Presented by: Medical Risk Management, Inc.
Accrediting institution: Medical Risk Management
Release date: 1998-1999
Type: Full-text articles interspersed with case presentations
Content: Sample modules for eight courses on risk management for all physicians and specialties (radiology, pediatrics). A few courses also address managed care and medical ethics. Enroll on line, but despite secure server transmission, payment must be surface mailed. Courses are written by the president and online administrator of Medical Risk Management, a Houston-based provider of continuing education and risk management services for healthcare professionals. This site has the only registration form that asks for your medical malpractice insurer!
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1-10 per course
Fee: According to the chart, average about $10 per credit hour
URL: https://www.medrisk.com/cme/pub/catalog.html ("https" denotes a secure server)
Site last visited: 1/00
- TMA Committee on Physician Health and Rehabilitation Courses
Presented by: Texas Medical Association
Accrediting institution: Texas Medical Association
Release date: 1991 (updated 1998) - 1997
Type: Full-text articles
Content: Five courses to promote the health and well-being of physicians: physician stress and burnout, alcohol and drug abuse, intervention, peer assistance committees, and care for the caregiver. Available to all physicians, and satisfies Texas' requirements for ethics CME.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per course
Fee: $15 (TMA members: $10) per course
URL: www.texmed.org/cme/phn/
Site last visited: 1/00
- USF Business of Medicine Online Executive Certificate Program
Presented by: University of Southern Florida
Accrediting institution:
Release date:
Type:
Content: Not reviewed
Approved for: AMA
Hours:
Fee: No cost
URL: www.usfcme.com/
Site last visited: June 2001
- U Wisconsin Online Instruction Center
Presented by: University of Wisconsin Office of CME
Accrediting institution: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Release date: various (2000)
Type: monographs with interactivity
Content: Non-medical fee-based online courses on the Internet, computers, paralegal, business, and personal enrichment. Registration and fees for a particular course and date is required (most are for a six-week period) before access to content, but site has a demo lesson. Enrollees have access to an online discussion group for posting questions, etc. From the site's FAQ: "You will be granted access to two lessons each week...Each lesson will be accompanied by a short, multiple-choice quiz. You are expected to try and complete each quiz within ten days of reading the lesson. Some lessons will also be accompanied by an assignment that has been designed to give you a hands-on application of the skills taught in that lesson. You will be granted ten days to complete each assignment, you will be provided with the tools you'll need to self-evaluate your work. The course will conclude with a final exam. You will have ten days after your course ends to submit the final for evaluation." Appears to be thoughtfully designed and executed.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: according to U Wisconsin, "...physicians can take any of the professional (non-medical) courses for CME credit if they can show that the course benefits their medical practice. When these courses are preapproved by our director, they are accredited by the University of Wisconsin, Medical School for up to 2.4 CEUs (24 hours) and 24 hours of AMA category 1 credit."
Fee: see individual courses; most between $69-119
URL: www.ed2go.com/cme/
Site last visited: 9/00
Allergy & Immunology
- AAAAI Asthma Case Studies
Presented by: American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
Accrediting institution: AAAAI
Release date: 2001
Type: case studies with interactivity
Content: Seven short case studies in asthma, each concluding with a question and satisfying answer. Registration is required.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2
Fee: No cost
URL: www.asthmacasestudies.org
Site last visited: May 2001
- An Update on Preventive Management Strategies for Pediatric Asthma
Presented by: de'Medici (Lippincott)
Accrediting institution: Vanderbilt and University of Alabama Schools of Medicine
Release date: Unknown
Type: Full-text narrative concluding with case studies
Content: Click "I'm New" for the painless registration process; ignore the student references, since this is a physician course. A series of short lessons written by pulmonary pediatricians. CME quiz can be activated only when all lessons are completed. HealthStream's T.Nav system is slow-loading and mouse-intensive, but it has a nice Help section.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2
Fee: No cost
URL: 129.59.101.225/tweb20/index.cfm
Site last visited: 1/00
- Expert Panel Report 2: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma
Presented by: Cine-Med and National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NIH)
Accrediting institution: Cine-Med
Release date: 1998
Type: Hypertext with graphics
Content: Scroll down to the bottom of the page to access the first two components of this four-part course: assessment and monitoring, and pharmacologic therapy. Solid basic information flawed by limited navigation and slow-loading pages.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 4 per component
Fee: No cost
URL: www.cine-med.com/ASTHMA/index.html
Site last visited: 2/00
- Essentials of Immunology
Presented by: Integrated Medical Curriculum (Gold Standard Multimedia)
Accrediting institution: Medical College of Georgia
Release date: March 1998
Type: Hypertext with graphics
Content: Free registration is required to access course directly. Content is thoughtfully presented for the electronic medium; although there is no multimedia the text is readable, richly illustrated and full of links. Each of its 15 chapters has an outline, summary, and review Q&As and there is a case presentation. In navigation try alternate routes if not successful, as site is full of bad links.
Approved for: AMA, nurses
Hours: 18
Fee: $99 (Call for user name and password)
URL: http://ce.gsm.com/
Site last visited: September 2001
- Interactive Grand Rounds in Immunology
Presented by: Medsite
Accrediting institution: A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Education of Baylor Health Care System
Release date: variable
Type: interactive case presentation
Content: Although not up to speed at present, the site promises monthly cases. July's case is on immunosuppressive therapy in heart-lung transplants. Intended audience is primary care practitioners.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per case
Fee: No cost
URL: igr.medsite.com/immun/
Site last visited: 9/00
Alternative/Complementary/Integrative Medicine
- A3R CME Series
Presented by: Academy of Anti-Aging Research
Accrediting institution: American Academy of Pain Management
Release date: unknown
Type: Full text articles
Content: Five courses, each comprised of ten articles on anti-aging are available to A3R members only (see fee schedule below). No online demos, but I was emailed the first article and CME quiz, in PDF format. The article appears to be the first chapter of The Five Proven Secrets of Longevity, a book co-written by two physicians, the organization's president and one of their board members. The book's content is freely available on site. Despite an extensive bibliography, the book's content is not scholarly from a physician's perspective and appears directed more at educated laypersons looking to apply its principles in their lives. According to the book, the five proven secrets to longevity are anti-aging hormone replacements, nutritional supplements, precision exercise, diet, and stress reduction. Will CME like this age, or anti-age us?
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per article (50 for entire series)
Fee: affiliate: $50/year plus $15/credit; active: $150/year plus $10/credit; fellowship: $1000, price of CME included.
URL: http://www.a3r.org/cmeseries.asp
Site last visited: September 2001
Anesthesia & Pain Control
- AnesthesiologyOnline.com CME Modules and Articles
Presented by: AnesthesiologyOnline.com
Accrediting institution: Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation
Release date: 2000-2001
Type: full-text articles
Content: Each month, three modules of ten abstracted articles are freely available for reading and CME. There are also eleven articles, on septic shock, management of pediatric airway, anesthesia in neurologic ICU monitoring, laparoscopy, malignant hyperthermia, rthyrocyte substitutes, pharmacology of acute resuscitation, aortic aneurysms, post-op neuropathy, and medical ethics. Unlike Dannemiller's other, Pain.com (described below), AnesthesiaOnline.com is financially supported by only one pharmaceutical company.
Approved for: AMA, AANA (CRNAs)
Hours: 1 per module, 2 per article
Fee: No cost
URL: www.anesthesiologyonline.com
Site last visited: August 2001
- Pain.com: Online CME
Presented by: Pain.com
Accrediting institution: Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation
Release date: 1998-2000
Type: Text articles, some with graphics; one slide show with audio (myofascial pain)
Content: A number of online CME courses are scattered throughout the site, only some of which are located under Free CME section. Instead, scroll down the home page to access all resources: Recent Advances in the Treatment of Myofascial Pain, an slide show with audio; CME Cancer Pain, a series of five short articles; 36 modules on pain and pain management, each module containing 10 abstracted articles; and courses on migraine, painful peripheral neuropathies, regional anesthesia for Orthopedic Surgery, and chronic non-malignant pain. CME quizzes can be submitted on line, but certificates are surface mailed. The Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation was founded in 1984 in memory of the chairman and director of the anesthesiology residency training program at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center at San Antonio, Texas. Financial support comes from a number of pharmaceutical companies. A very nice online resource for pain and pain management.
Approved for: AMA, nurses (CRNAs)
Hours: 1-2 (migraine, ortho)
Fee: No cost
URL: www.pain.com/index.cfm
Site last visited: 2/00
- Use of Anticonvulsant Therapy in Pain Management
Presented by: HealthGate
Accrediting institution: Professional Postgraduate Services (PPS)
Release date: Not available
Type: Not available
Content: Registrants must submit credit card information before accessing content. Price includes free updates for one year. Intended audience is described as practicing neurologists, primary care physicians, and pain control specialists. This is the first course offered by PPS Academy Online, a division of Physicians World.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2
Fee: $30
URL: http://cme.healthgate.com/ppsacad/index.html
Site last visited: 12/99
Biotechnology
Cardiology
- ACC Online Continuing Education
Presented by: American College of Cardiology
Accrediting institution: American College of Cardiology
Release date: March 1999
Type: Case presentations with interactivity, graphics and audio
Content: Among the many online offerings, 5 cases under Arrhythmias in the ICU and 4 cases under Clinical Decision-Making offer CME credit. These are interesting, educational case presentations with some interactivity and graphics. One very nice feature: the case is summarized step by step, with full access to information in text and audio only a click away. ACC also links to Medscape's convention reporting of the 4 day long ACC 2001 -- 50th Annual Scientific Sessions, five presentations of which carry CME.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 (case presenttions); 5 (ACC 2001)
Fee: No cost
URL: www.acc.org/education/online/online.htm
Site last visited: June 2001
- AHA Continuing Medical Education
Presented by: American Heart Association and Proust Science
Accrediting institution: SUNY at Stony Brook
Release date: 1998 (revised 1999)
Type: Convention reporting
Content: Reporting of clinical trials, from the Council on Clinical Cardiology's Plenary Session VII (Nov 2000), and from a recent World Heart Federation. The resources are well-designed, and each convention can be accessed online by webcast, slides with audio, or transcript. There is also a link to Medscape's convention reporting of the 4 day long ACC 2000 -- 49th Annual Scientific Sessions (Medscape says it is temporarily unavailable, so it's not known if CME is current.)
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1.5 per convention
Fee: $10 per convention
URL: www.americanheart.org/Scientific/CME/
Site last visited: June 2001
- AVF/VEIN CME Programs
Presented by: American Venous Forumand Venous Educational Institute of North America
Accrediting institution: Education Design
Release date: May 1997
Type: Monograph
Content: The first of these vascular surgery listings, Advances in the Treatment of Deep Vein Thrombosis, does not appear to have an online CME test on the referred-to external site. However, the second listing, Chronic Venous Insufficiency, has its CME quiz on the site for printout and mailing.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2
Fee: $15
URL: www.venous-info.com/avf/vin/5vin.htm
Site last visited: 2/00
- Baylor Online CME Courses
Presented by: Baylor College of Medicine
Accrediting institution: Baylor College of Medicine
Release date: Fall 1998
Type: Slide shows, with additional features
Content: Registration is required to access Baylor's frames-driven Online CME home page. Once there, click on Course Index to view three CME courses -- Diagnostic Approach to Cardiac Tachyarrhythmias, Diagnostic Approach to the Patient with Chest Pain, and Management of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction. All are authored by cardiologists on staff at Baylor. Although listed here, these slide-with-audio presentations are clearly geared to internists and other primary care physicians. Each has the same clever layout that gives access to transcripts and other features, such as PubMed searches and (an underutilized) discussion forum. Non-cardiology material for primary care physicians are also available on treatment of hypertension, medullablastoma, and type II diabetes.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 0.5 per course
Fee: No cost
URL: http://www.baylorcme.org/scripts/baylor/password.cfm
Site last visited: 12/99
- Cardiology Today and Tomorrow
Presented by: Medical Cybersessions
Accrediting institution: Mayo Foundation
Release date: 1999
Type: Audio and slides with interactivity
Content: Atherosclerosis: Primary and Secondary Prevention Managing the Vascular Bed is an archived medcast of 10 presentations by the faculty of the Mayo Clinic Division of Cardiovascular Diseases. Content is appropriate for generalists more than cardiologists. There is an opportunity to post comments, although this feature does not appear active.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2.5
Fee: $20
URL: www.cvtt.org
Site last visited: 2/00
- cme.cybersessions.org
Presented by: Medical Cybersessions
Accrediting institution: Duke University
Release date: monthly
Type: live and archived medcast
Content: Montly series of lectures on cardiology presumably directed at generalists and other healthcare professionals, although site also includes information about a Young Investigators Award for cardiology fellows.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per presentation
Fee: $20 per presentation
URL: cme.cybersessions.org/
Site last visited: 9/00
- Controversies in Cardiology
Presented by: Physicians Online (POL)
Accrediting institution: Institute for Continuing Healthcare Education
Release date: 1998
Type: Text-based instruction with graphics
Content: Controversies in Cardiology is a pharmaceutical company-supported program designed specifically for POL. Presently there are CME courses on ACE Inhibitors and cardiovascular disease, stable and unstable angina, treatment of chronic heart failure; and controversy and consensus in hypertension (JNC-VI); the site also archives programs no longer eligible for CME. Each is written by a well-credentialed physician who participated in online discussions during the first days of each course's release. Access is off POL's main frames-based page, using the left navigation panel under CME or Controversies in Cardiology.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per course
Fee: $10 per course
URL: www.pol.net
Site last visited: 12/99
- theheart.org
Presented by: Conceptis Technologies
Accrediting institution:Institute of Continuing Healthcare Education
Release date: 2000-2001 (current)
Type: slide shows
Content: A content-laden site for cardiologists and related healthcare personnel. CME is limited to a dozen current and about 30 archived Cybersessions offered by Conceptis in partnership with academic centers, including an evidence-based medical series with Duke University (described under our Primary Care section). There are other excellent educational resources and cybersessions (notably the Lancet/theheart.org presents, discussions on current cardiology articles published in The Lancet with the authors and others) but they do not offer CME. The registration process is unnecessarily restrictive, but otherwise this looks to be a great site for both cardiologists and general practitioners. Theheart.org is owned and supported by Conceptis Technologies, a medical Web design and technology company.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1-2 per presentation
Fee: No cost
URL: theheart.org
Site last visited: June 2001
- Interactive Grand Rounds in Cardiology
Presented by: Medsite
Accrediting institution: A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Education of Baylor Health Care System
Release date: unknown
Type: interactive case presentation
Content: Over a dozen case studies in Arrhythmias, Hypertension, and Dyslipidemias. Cases are nicely presented and well-referenced. While appropriate for primary care physicians, they are more thoughtful than the typical online fare. "Interactive Grand Rounds in Cardiology is the first in a series of Web sites presented under the flagship banner of Interactive Grand Rounds (IGR), developed by American Medical Communications. Ultimately, the IGR series will offer unique CME opportunities for professionals representing more than 15 clinical specialties."
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per case
Fee: No cost
URL: igr.medsite.com/cardio/
Site last visited: 9/00
- Preventive Cardiology Clinic CME
Presented by: HeartInfo
Accrediting institution: University of Cincinnati
Release date: February 1999
Type: Text-based article with graphs and case studies
Content: Four articles and three case presentations from the editors of Cardiology Review on HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors. CME quiz can be submitted electronically. HeartInfo is an "independent, educational" Web site created and maintained by laypersons with physician advisors. CME is financially supported by unrestricted grant from a pharmaceutical company.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1
Fee: No cost
URL: www.heartinfo.org/physician/cme/pcc/default.htm
Site last visited: 1/00
- UVa CardioVillage
Presented by: University of Virginia Heart Center
Accrediting institution: University of Virginia
Release date: Unknown
Type: Tutorials and case presentations with interactivity and multimedia
Content: Go to the Coronary Artery Disease Learning Pavilion for the first course in this over-designed, slow-loading but occasionally impressive site. Site content is presented by way of Q&As -- not just in the interactive tutorials and case presentations but also the library section, pretest and post-tests, and a Board Review section. Content appears directed at primary care physicians more than specialists.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 3
Fee: $5 per credit
www.cardiovillage.com
Site last visited: 2/00
Dermatology
- Indiana U Virtual Dermatology
Presented by: Indiana University School of Medicine Dept of Pathology and Lab Medicine
Accrediting institution: Indiana University
Release date: 1998
Type: Case presentation with interactivity
Content: At present only three of 20 patient cases offers CME: Case 1 (young man with itchy wrists); Case 3 (middle-aged woman with nodular mass); Case 6 (middle-aged man with painful lesions). Read history, view graphics of lesions, order tests, then give your diagnosis. With the correct diagnosis, go on to answer the CME quiz (warning: some of the questions require knowledge beyond that in the case presentation). Full updated resource on Virtual Lecture Hall.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per case (3 total)
Fee: $20 per case
URL: erl.pathology.iupui.edu/cases/dermcases/cases.cfm
Site last visited: 2/00
Emergency Medicine
- Acute Thrombosis Management in Emergency Medicine: Advanced Clinical Update for the Year 200 and Beyond
Presented by: American Health Consultants Online Symposium
Accrediting institution: Americanf Health Consultants
Release date: November 1999
Type: archived medcast
Content: Three 30-45 minute sessions, on clinical applications of thrombolytic studies, PEs and DVTs, and Acute Coronary Syndromes. The non-academic, entertaining lecture fare is available in text, audio, or multimedia (audio, video, and slide show). The pharmaceutical company that supplied an unrestricted educational grant got their money's worth -- their name is everpresent.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2
Fee: No cost
URL: www.thrombosisconnect.com/
Site last visited: May 2001
Endocrinology & Metabolism
- The Endocrine Society Online CME
Presented by: The Endocrine Society
Accrediting institution: The Endocrine Society
Release date: 1999-2001 (current)
Type: monographs, audio slide shows some with multimedia
Content: Eight courses, five of which clearly offer CME: lipids and diabetes, oral contraception, hypopituitarism, adrogens in women, and bone and calcium update. The lipids and diabetes presentation is technically among the best online -- even on my 56K modem I could comfortably stream a video of the lecturer, the slides, transcript and audio quickly and cleanly, and features allow for navigation throughout the presentation. Other presentations use Shockwave freeware for audio slide shows, or are presented as monographs. Each presentation requires a separate (free) registration. Multiple pharmaceutical companies support these academic, convention-type presentations.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1.5 - 3 hours per presentation
Fee: No cost
URL: www.endo-society.org/education/index.cfm
Site last visited: September 2001
ENT (Otolaryngology)
Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Disorders
- AFIP Virtual Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Biopsy Course
Presented by: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Accrediting institution: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Release date: 1997
Type: Case presentations with pathology slides
Content: This pathologist's educational resource contains 10 groups of four patient cases each. A one-sentence history accompanies a handful of fairly well resolved pathology slides, and the next page gives the diagnosis and concise comments. Return to the course's home page and repeat the process for the next three cases in the group before advancing to the online CME quiz. Unfortunately, credit card information is not securely transmitted, so select among the phone, mail or fax options.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per group (4 cases to a group)
Fee: No cost to military and federal health care providers; the rest of us pay $10 per group
URL: www.afip.org/virtual_course/virtualgi.html
Site last visited: 2/00
- Hepatitis C
Presented by: Centers for Disease Control
Accrediting institution: CDC
Release date:
Type:
Content: Not yet reviewed
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2.5
Fee: No cost
URL: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis/C%20Training/edu/default.htm
Site last visited: June 2001
- Cleveland Clinic Online Gastroenterology Courses
Presented by: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Accrediting institution: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Release date: June 1999
Type: Case presentations with interactivity (GERD), text with graphics and case presentations (H. Pylori)
Content: Only one course presently offered, the pharmaceutical company-supported Diagnosis and Practical Management of GERD, comprised of three case studies with interactive questions throughout. This course is set to expire at the end of June 2001.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 3 (GERD)
Fee: No cost
URL: http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/online/gastro.htm
Site last visited: May 2001
- Frontiers in Viral Hepatitis
Presented by: American Digestive Health Foundation
Accrediting institution: American Gastroenterogical Association
Release date: January 1999
Type: Slide show with audio
Content: Three hepatitis experts present a slide show on hepatitis A, B, and C. The course concludes with a panel discussion. Content is available on line for free, but the quiz needs to be downloaded, printed out, completed, then mailed in with the CME fee.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2.5
Fee: $15
URL: www.conference-cast.com/fivh/
Site last visited: 1/00
Genetics & Molecular Biology
- Frontiers in Clinical Genetics
Presented by: George Washington University Medical Center CEHP
Accrediting institution: George Washington University
Release date: April 1999-March 2000
Type: Slide show with audio (archives and live presentations)
Content: This excellent resource is a bit confusing, in that it separates all content from all CME quizzes and registration forms. Use the left navigation panel: Lecture Calendar accesses all lecture presentations, and Continuing Education accesses self-test questions and answer form that must be surface mailed to receive CME credit. Lectures can be accessed live as well, from noon-1:30 P.M. EST on date of transmission. Varied and interesting series of lectures by top experts in the field. Funded by an unrestricted educational grant from Glaxo Wellcome.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1.5 per presentation
Fee: $25 per presentation
URL: www.frontiersingenetics.com/main.htm
Site last visited: 1/00
Geriatrics
- A3R CME Series
Presented by: Academy of Anti-Aging Research
Accrediting institution: American Academy of Pain Management
Release date: unknown
Type: Full text articles
Content: Five courses, each comprised of ten articles on anti-aging are available to A3R members only (see fee schedule below). No online demos, but I was emailed the first article and CME quiz, in PDF format. The article appears to be the first chapter of The Five Proven Secrets of Longevity, a book co-written by two physicians, the organization's president and one of their board members. The book's content is freely available on site. Despite an extensive bibliography, the book's content is not scholarly from a physician's perspective and appears directed more at educated laypersons looking to apply its principles in their lives. According to the book, the five proven secrets to longevity are anti-aging hormone replacements, nutritional supplements, precision exercise, diet, and stress reduction. Will CME like this age, or anti-age us?
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per article (50 for entire series)
Fee: affiliate: $50/year plus $15/credit; active: $150/year plus $10/credit; fellowship: $1000, price of CME included.
URL: http://www.a3r.org/cmeseries.asp
Site last visited: September 2001
- Geriatrics Times CME
Presented by: Geriatrics Times
Accrediting institution: CME, Inc.
Release date: 2000-2001 (current)
Type: full text articles
Content: Each bimonthly issue includes one article on an interdisciplinary topic. Quiz gives answer at the bottom of the page.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per article
Fee: No cost
URL: http://www.medinfosource.com/gt/cme.html
Site last visited: September 2001
Hematology/Oncology
- ASCO Virtual Meetings: Online CME
Presented by: American Society of Clinical Oncologists
Accrediting institution: American Society of Clinical Oncology
Release date: 1999-2001
Type: Various (some text, others slides with audio)
Content: looks ready to share their June 2001 annual meeting on line, just as they've done the past 2 years. Last year, live presentations were translated into a series of audio slide shows with accompanying PDF manuscripts. Quality is typical research-oriented clinical meetings, and it's freely available after a painless registration process.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 10-23 per conference
Fee: $10 per credit ($8 for ASCO members)
URL: www.asco.org/prof/me/html/m_cme.htm
Site last visited: June 2001
- Cancerfacts.com Education
Presented by: Medical Economics
Accrediting institution: American Health Consultants
Release date: 1977-2000 (cmeWEB); June 1998 (Interactive)
Type: journal articles and slide show/audio
Content: Portal to two resources: (1) cmeWEB for Oncology (cmeWEB is described under our Multiple Specialty section), which is a free(!) version of Clinical Oncology Alert monthly articles and CME, and (2) cmeWEB Interactive, which at present leads directly into a slide show/audio presentation on Lowering the Threshold for Prophylactic Platelet Transfusion: Is the Risk of Bleeding Increased?, the lead article from June 1998 issue of Clinical Oncology Alert. Very confusing -- Take The Test leads back to cmeWEB for Oncology. Scroll down to Clinical Oncology 206 to access the test, but you need to read all the (freely available) articles in the June 1998 issue to earn CME credit. They also forgot to title the slide show!
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1.5 per issue
Fee: No cost
URL: oncology.pdr.net/oncology/public.htm?path=resources/education/index.htm
Site last visited: 5/00
- CExpress
Presented by: Meniscus Limited
Accrediting institution: Meniscus Educational Institute
Release date: 2001
Type: Monographs
Content: Two breast cancer and three breast and colon cancer courses
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per course
Fee: no cost
URL: www.meniscus.com/cexpress/fsMain.asp
Site last visited: May 2001
- GWU Heme-Onc Board Review
Presented by: George Washington University Medical Center
Accrediting institution: George Washington University Medical Center
Release date: 2000
Type: Unknown
Content: Not yet reviewed
Approved for: AMA
Hours: Unknown
Fee: Fee schedule
URL: http://www.hemoncboardreview.com/
Site last visited: June 2001
- Moffitt Cancer Control Journal Online CME
Presented by: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Accrediting institution: University of South Florida
Release date: Six times a year
Type: Journal articles with graphics
Content: Each bimonthly issue is dedicated to a topic, with a half-dozen scholarly updates and review articles. Scroll down the Table of Contents to CME pretest (if desired), then return for the post-test after reading the issue's key articles. CME available up to a year from publication.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per 8 questions (usually 4 per issue)
Fee: No cost
URL: /www.moffitt.usf.edu/providers/ccj/
Site last visited: 2/00
Infectious Diseases/AIDS
- CDC Continuing Education Activity
Presented by: CDC Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report
Accrediting institution: Centers for Disease Control
Release date: current
Type: Monographs
Content: Continuing education for physicians, nurses, and others on nine Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Reports publications. Downloading (PDF format only) may take a few minutes, since each publication contains dozens of pages. Registration prior to taking CME quiz is required. Link to CME off left navigation panel is not working, so site data has not been updated.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2 per report
Fee: No cost
URL: www.cdc.gov/mmwr//mmwr.html
Site last visited: 12/99
- HIVcme.com Online CME
Presented by: HIVcme.com
Accrediting institution: Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
Release date: unknown
Type: PowerPoint 97 slides
Content: Click on CME button on the left navigation panel on this framed home page. PowerPoint 97 required to view the (at present) two slide show courses: Pediatric and Adolescent HIV Treatment Strategies, and Treatment Strategies for HIV in Women.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2
Fee: $15
URL: www.hivcme.com/index.html
Site last visited: 3/00
- HIVLine CME
Presented by: HIVLine
Accrediting institution:Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center
Release date: 2000-2001
Type: Webcast of case studies with interactivity and monographs
Content: HIVCast are six archived webcasts, although not all contain current CME. Those that are current appear to be demos. I have completed the registration process, and hopefully will receive information about cost and access. The Fax Newsletter located elsewhere on the site offers monographs in PDF format; to receive CME credit, users fax the posttest to HIVLine. Clinical Insight and Interactive Grand Rounds located elsewhere on the site contain expired CME. HIVLine is an educational resource for health care professionals, with grant funding from Glaxo Wellcome.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per course
Fee: ?
URL: www.hivline.com/cme/default.htm
Site last visited: May 2001
- HIV Neurology Newsletter
Presented by: Academy of Continuing Medical Education
Accrediting institution:Institute for Medical Studies
Release date: August 1999
Type: Full-text articles
Content: Scroll halfway down the page to access this 12-page newsletter in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Newsletter is well-written and referenced. Note that the CME quiz for this newsletter includes an essay question! Otherwise, all content on this full commercial site is outdated but accessible.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1
Fee: $10
URL: www.aceponline.com
Site last visited: 1/00
- Projects in Knowledge Programs
Presented by: Projects in Knowledge
Accrediting institution: Projects in Knowledge
Release date: 1999-2001
Type: Slide show with audio and video webcasts (archives)
Content: A growing number of online programs listed among other fare, primarily on HIV and/or HCV. These are non-academic conference presentations by academic physicians. Pharmaceutical companies provide unrestricted financial support and, as required, presenters disclose their industry relationships.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 -1.5
Fee: No cost
URL: www.projectsinknowledge.com/programs.html
Site last visited: May 2001
Medical Ethics
- Doctor's Dilemma
Presented by: Integrated Medical Curriculum (Gold Standard Multimedia)
Accrediting institution: Medical College of Georgia
Release date: June 1997
Type: Case presentations with interactivity
Content: Free registration required to access content. An interesting, fun, and educational program. Dr. Pat Newman (the user's cyberidentity) works through any of 10 clinical scenarios with the help of consultants from all walks of life. In navigation try alternate routes if not successful, as site is full of bad links.
Approved for: AMA, nurses
Hours: 15
Fee: $99 (call for user name and password)
URL: http://ce.gsm.com/
Site last visited: September 2001
- TMA's Online Ethics Courses
Presented by: Texas Medical Association
Accrediting institution: Texas Medical Association
Release date: 1991 (updated 1998) - 1997
Type: Full-text articles, some case studies
Content: Five TMA Committee on Physician Health and Rehabilitation Courses to promote the health and well-being of physicians: physician stress and burnout, alcohol and drug abuse, intervention, peer assistance committees, and care for the caregiver. See too Medical Ethics and Professionalism. Available to all physicians, and satisfies Texas requirements for ethics CME.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per course
Fee: $15 (TMA members: $10) per course
URL: www.texmed.org/cme/cos.asp
Site last visited: 1/00
- Medical Ethics: A CME Update
Presented by: University of Oklahoma CME on the Web
Accrediting institution: University of Oklahoma
Release date: October 1999
Type: Text-based article
Content: Inexplicably expensive article on Medical Ethics, with the online CME quiz linked at the bottom of the page. Other site resources described under our Primary Care section.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2
Fee: $90
URL: http://cme.ouhsc.edu/medicalethic.htm
Site last visited: 2/00
Medical Informatics
- Online Health Infomatics Course
Presented by: West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnership (WVRHEP)
Accrediting institution: Marshall University School of Medicine
Release date: 2000-2001
Type: Text
Content: This text-based course is divided into 12 modules; physicians progress through the course module by module. Course objectives are described as learning to, "...use and evaluate Internet-based electronic communication resources...use and evaluate clinical decision support systems...(and) understand broad issues surrounding technological advances in health care..." Students or residents seeking 2-4 weeks of academic credit have additional assignments to complete. The registration process is painless but unusual for non-WVRHEP physicians, and once registered all names appear on a master login list.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1-3 hours per module
Fee: $25 total to WVRHEP physicians; $25 per module to non-WVRHEP physicians
URL: www.wvrhep.org/informatics/
Site last visited: June 2001
- Stanford Clinical and Bio Informatics Short Course
Presented by: Stanford Center for Professional Development
Accrediting institution: Stanford University
Release date: Summer 1999
Type: Medcast (archive) with automatically advancing slides
Content: Five online courses from Stanford's Medical Informatics Department, with one available for CME credit: Medical Informatics Introductory Short Course. See a demo of all that $1K will buy.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 25
Fee: $950 plus shipping/handling charges for course manual
URL: scpd.stanford.edu/smiseries.html
Site last visited: 2/00
Nephrology & pH/Electrolyte Disorders
Neurology & Psychiatry
Sites with Multiple Courses
- AAN Online CME
Presented by: American Academy of Neurology
Accrediting institution: American Academy of Neurology
Release date: 2001
Type: audio slide shows with transcripts
Content: Under Education and CME, seven plenary and therapy presentations from this year's 53rd Annual Meeting. Free registration required. Four are free for viewing with separate charge for CME, and three are pay-per-view.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1-2 per presentation
Fee: $15-25
URL: www.aan.com
Site last visited: August 2001
- AAPM&R Online CME
Presented by: American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Accrediting institution: American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Release date: 1997-2001 (current)
Type: Case presentations with commentary
Content: Fifty EMG (monthly from 1997) and ten musculoskeletal cases (bimonthly from September 1999) appropriate for specialists and trainees. Evaluation form (no quiz) and payment are submitted by surface mail.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per case
Fee: $10 per case, $25 for 3 cases
URL: www.aapmr.org/cme.htm
Site last visited: June 2001
- APA Online CME
Presented by: American Psychiatric Association
Accrediting institution: American Psychiatric Association
Release date: 1997-2001
Type: Full text with graphics
Content: allows both members and nonmembers to view content and obtain CME; nonmembers can enroll as Guests and are asked to provide only an e-mail address. APA members get a free CME recorder that tracks and reports CME activities. There are two types of online CME courses: monographs on HIV/AIDS and Alzheimer's disease; and practice guidelines on Alzheimer's disease, panic disorder, schizophrenia, and eating disorders. A webcast by Eric Kandel, MD, on Molecular Biology of Memory: A Dialogue between Genes and Synapses, is promised soon.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2-3 per presentation
Fee: APA members: $15 per 3 credit hours (non-members $30)
URL: www.psych.org/cme/apache
Site last visited: August 2001
- Current CME Reviews
Presented by: Medical Broadcast Division of MBL Communications
Accrediting institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Release date: 1998-1999
Type: Full-text articles
Content: Click on "CME Reviews" for dozens of articles for psychiatrists, neurologists, and primary care physicians from CNS Spectrums and Primary Psychiatry, two monthly journals from MBL Communications. Content is freely available, but CME is available only to registered users, which requires credit card information. Present courses (each composed of several 1-credit-hour articles) include: anxiety, new perspectives in neuropsychiatry, bipolar disease, female-specific mood disorders, antisocial personality disorder, neuroscience and developmental psychopathology, surgery for psychiatric disorders, anxiety-psychosis spectrum, emotions and feelings, and catatonia. Content is scholarly and well referenced.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per article
Fee: $5 per credit hour
URL: www.cme-reviews.com/
Site last visited: August 2001
- Drug Addiction Treatment: New Research Findings
Presented by: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
Accrediting institution: Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons
Release date: August 1999
Type: slide/audio presentation
Content: Based on April 1999 conference at CPMC. In eight parts: Overview of Addiction Treatment, Contingency Management, Cognitive Behavioral Management, Treatment Outcome Research, Biology of Reward Mechanism, Brain Imaging and Substance Abuse Research, Anti-Cocaine Catalytic Antibodies, and Pharmaceutical Treatments. Online CME available for entire program.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 6.5
Fee: $20
URL: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/video/Welcome.html
Site last visited: 9/00
- HIV Neurology Newsletter
Presented by: Academy of Continuing Medical Education
Accrediting institution:Institute for Medical Studies
Release date: August 1999
Type: Full-text articles
Content: Scroll halfway down the page to access this 12-page newsletter in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Newsletter is well-written and referenced. Note that CME quiz for this newsletter includes an essay question! Otherwise, all content on this full commercial site is outdated but accessible.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1
Fee: $10
URL: www.aceponline.com
Site last visited: 1/00
- Journal of Clinical Psychiatry CME Activities
Presented by: Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Accrediting institution: Physician Postgraduate Press
Release date: 1999
Type: Full-text article
Content: After a painless free registration process, access the CME link just under the title. Five articles and one supplement on clinical aspects of psychiatry, with an academic edge. Solid articles are written for psychiatrists but are appropriate for primary care practitioners as well. Test and registration form must be surface mailed.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per article, 4.5 (entire supplement)
Fee: No cost
URL: www.psychiatrist.com/private/cme/index.html
Site last visited: 1/00
- KnowSleep.com
Presented by: MedAscend
Accrediting institution: Medical Education Collaborative and MedAscend
Release date: monthly
Type: audio/transcripts, case studies, articles
Content: Physicians must register (free) for access to content, but only Paid Subscribers can take CME tests and receive credit. Three types of CME on sleep and sleep disorders: Expert-to-Expert Interviews (audio with transcripts); Challenge Case Study; and Featured Article Reviews. Expensive CME, but may be worth it for physicians interested in the subject.
Approved for: AMA
Hours:1 per activity
Fee: $249/year (paid subscriber) plus $20/hr.
URL: https://www.knowsleep.com/professionals/cme/index.html (note secure server access)
Site last visited: 9/00
- MediCom Online Courses
Presented by: MediCom
Accrediting institution: University of Wisconsin and Institute of Continuing Healthcare Education
Release date: 1998
Type: Slide show-with-audio with transcript available
Content: Three courses on acute management of psychosis, longterm use of antipsychotic agents, and stroke prevention. Although listed here, intended audience is clearly primary care practitioners rather than specialists. Accrediting information and content can be accessed only after (free) registration. MediCom of Princeton, Inc., is a medical communications company specializing in continuing education media for physicians, pharmacists, and nurses.
Approved for: AMA, ACPE, CNE
Hours: 1-1.5 per program
Fee: No cost
URL: medicaled.com/courses/index_online.cfm?id=all
Site last visited: 1/00
- MHi Continuing Education
Presented by: Mental Health InfoSource
Accrediting institution: CME, Inc.
Release date: 1997-2000
Type: full text articles and monographs
Content: A potpourri of different resources accessible from this page. On revisit, CME for psychiatrists is now limited to those resources listed under Psychiatric Times, which is described just below.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per article; 1.5 per puzzle
Fee: No cost (articles) to $29 per module (Clinical Puzzles, see site for discounts)
URL: www.mhsource.com/online/index.html
Site last visited: September 2001
- NYU Interactive Testing in Psychiatry
Presented by: NYU Department of Psychiatry
Accrediting institution: New York University School of Medicine
Release date: 1995
Type: Multiple choice questions
Content: Seven modules each with 30 board-type questions on one page. The site explains, "ITP keeps an electronic log of every module taken, please make sure to fill all the items at the end of each module. You need to correctly answer at least 50% of questions to qualify for CME credit." There is immediate feedback once all questions in the module are submitted electronically. Once successfully completed, payment must be surface mailed to actually receive CME credit.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per module
Fee: $20 per module + $5 administrative fee
URL: www.med.nyu.edu/Psych/itp.html
Site last visited:May 2001
- Psychiatric Times CME
Presented by: Psychiatric Times
Accrediting institution: CME, Inc.
Release date: 2000-2001 (current)
Type: full text articles
Content: Each bimonthly issue includes one article probably more suited to general practitioners. Note that quiz gives answers at the bottom of the page. See too its quarterly features Bipolar Disorders & Impulsive Spectrum Letters and Mental health Economics, and a fee-based collection of Clinical Puzzles, the latter challenges physicians to "solve clinical challenges as your earn credit with the interactive version of the popular Psychiatric Times column Clinical Puzzles, written by Ronald Pies, M.D. Each article includes a case study, interactive post-test and an online bulletin board for discussion of the topics."
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per article, 1.5 per puzzle
Fee: No cost (articles), $29 each Clinical Puzzle ($25 each for two or more, all 18 for $250)
URL: http://www.mhsource.com/pt/cme.html
Site last visited: September 2001
- PsychLinks
Presented by: Home page of Sponsor
Accrediting institution:
Release date:
Type:
Content: 45 archived webcasts of biweekly live discussions on a particular topic, from 1999 to present. Free registration required. Not reviewed yet
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1.5 per presentation
Fee: No cost
URL: www.psychlink.pwpl.com/live_shows/liveshow_list.htm
Site last visited: June 2001
- UT at Houston Emergency Stroke Management
Presented by: University of Texas - Houston Medical School and VistaLink
Accrediting institution: University of Texas - Houston
Release date: August 1999
Type: Manually advanced slide show with audio
Content: Eight presentations from physicians on staff or in fellowship at UT-Houston, but solid content appears to have a strong practical slant. Manually advance from one slide/transcript to the next. Unfortunately, the audio streams between slides. VistaLink interface has a number of bugs.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per lecture
Fee: $12 per credit hour
URL: www.vistalink.com/en/public/cme/courses/esm/
Site last visited: 1/00
- Anticonvulsant Therapy in Pain Management
Presented by: HealthGate
Accrediting institution: Professional Postgraduate Services (PPS)
Release date: Not available
Type: Not available
Content: Registrants must submit credit card information before accessing content. Price includes free updates for one year. Intended audience is described as practicing neurologists, primary care physicians, and pain control specialists. This is the first course offered by PPS Academy Online, a division of Physicians World.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2
Fee: $30
URL: http://cme.healthgate.com/ppsacad/index.html
Site last visited: 12/99
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: CME component
Presented by: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Accrediting institution: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Release date: March 1998
Type:
Hypertext article
Content: Entire contents is on this page, then follow link to CME quiz. Advance through the four-question quiz to reach the submission form, which may be faxed or mailed. Simple, straightforward CME that utilizes Web technology well, although without advanced multimedia or telecommunications. Content is probably too basic for most neurologists and psychiatrists. For non-CME content and links, see ADHD Clinical Support Module
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2
Fee: $25
URL: www.med.virginia.edu/adhd/cme.html
Site last visited: 1/00
- DBS for Parkinson Disease
Presented by: Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education
Accrediting institution: Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Release date: 2000
Type: Monograph
Content: A nice site, but not surprisingly, this monograph is supported by the company that makes the equipment for deep brain stimulation. Some Cleveland Clinic staff admit in their disclosures to potential conflicts of interest.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1.5
Fee: No cost
URL: http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/deepbrain2/deepbrainhome.htm
Site last visited: May 2001
- TMA Stroke Project Accreditation
Presented by: Texas Medical Association
Accrediting institution: Texas Medical Association
Release date: 1994 (posted 1999)
Type: Slides with text
Content: Although posted in 1999, the presentation was prepared in 1994, so don't expect much on newer acute stroke therapies.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 3
Fee: No cost
URL: www.texmed.org/cme/spt/stroke_project.asp
Site last visited: 1/00
Obstetrics & Gynecology
- ARHP Clinical Proceedings
Presented by: Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
Accrediting institution: Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
Release date: 1998-2000
Type: Clinical articles
Content: Access to (currently) four issues with online CME -- on contraceptive choice, perimenopause, oral contraception, and HIV infections in women. Read the articles and answer the online CME, but consider whether you wish to submit form with credit card info electronically -- the transaction is not secure.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per issue
Fee: No charge to ARHP members (who pay $100 annual fees); otherwise $15 per issue
URL: www.arhp.org/publications.htm#clinical
Site last visited: 3/00
- Breastfeeding Basics
Presented by: March of Dimes
Accrediting institution: Case Western Reserve
Release date: November 1999
Type: Hypertext article with graphics
Content: Content is freely available, but registration is required for CME credit. Table of contents divides site into chapters, sections, and subsections. Quite an extensive basic primer.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1
Fee: $25
URL: www.breastfeedingbasics.org
Site last visited: 2/00
- Contemporary OB/GYN
Presented by: PDR.net
Accrediting institution: Jefferson Medical College
Release date: 2000 (monthly)
Type: full text articles
Content: In addition to the PDR.net CME/CE link at the top of the site, there is an online version of journal CME: one article per monthly issue. Active CME archives from the past 12 months are online as well, but every past issue must be accessed individually.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per article
Fee: no cost to journal subscribers; otherwise $20 per article
URL: obgyn.pdr.net/obgyn/index.htm
Site last visited: May 2001
- Grand Rounds Online: Women's Health
Presented by: Meniscus Limited
Accrediting institution: Meniscus Educational Institute
Release date: March 1999
Type: Case study
Content: A classy graph introduces Menopause's first module, Osteoporosis. Information appears directed at primary care physicians, but is included here in case subsequent modules are more appropriate for specialists. Free registration required. Supported by an unrestricted grant from a pharmaceutical company.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1
Fee: No cost
URL: http://209.141.186.194/grandrounds/
Site last visited: 1/00
- Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy
Presented by: HealthStreamUniversity.com
Accrediting institution: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Release date: March 1999
Type: Monograph with or without video
Content: Presented by physicians on staff at Vanderbilt.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2 (3 with video)
Fee: $20 ($30 with video)
URL: https://www.healthstreamuniversity.com/icomm/CsCatalog.cfm?logged_in=1&SID=1182_11037&profession=0&category=121&subcategory=0&search=result&searchType=result ("https" denotes a secure server)
Site last visited: 12/99
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- ACOEM Online Seminar
Presented by: American College of Occupational And Environmental Medicine
Accrediting institution: American College of Occupational And Environmental Medicine
Release date: 2000
Type: Text and audio transcripts with manual slides
Content: has six pay-per-view seminars taken from its May 2000 American Occupational Health Conference on both business and scientific topics. The site has a demo of its inelegant manual transcript/slide show presentation, which includes a separate audio link.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 3-6
Fee: 3 hour courses: $99 (ACOEM members), $129 (non-members); 6 hour course: $189 (ACOEM members), $249 (non-members)
URL: www.knowledgelinc.com/acoem2000/
Site last visited: August 2001
Ophthalmology
- NYEEI Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Presented by: New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Accrediting institution: New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Release date: 1997
Type: Monograph with graphics
Content: Written by Department Chair Joseph Walsh, M.D. Note that the audio feature is defunct. CME quiz can be submitted electronically, but fee must be surface mailed.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1
Fee: $20
URL: www.nyee.edu/diglib/armd/text/part1.htm
Site last visited: 2/00
Orthopedics & Sports Medicine
- AAOS Orthopedic Campus
Presented by: American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
Accrediting institution: American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons
Release date: Unknown
Type: Unknown
Content: Courses are only available to AAOS members. At present there are two course accessible under Auditorium: Post-operative ACL Rehabilitation Course, and Nonoperative Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis. Elsewhere on site is a course on Reducing Professional Liability Risks.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 2 (Liability Risks) or 4 (ACL Rehab)
Fee: AAOS membership required
URL:
Site last visited: 1/00
- ACSM The Physician and Sportsmedicine Online CME
Presented by: McGraw-Hill Healthcare Information
Accrediting institution: American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
Release date: Current issue (monthly) and preceeding 12 months
Type: Full-text articles with tables/graphics
Content: Starting with the April 1999 issue, the journal's half-dozen articles and CME are available on line. Online and journal content and quiz are identical, but the online material is posted one month after journal mailings. Unlike other McGraw-Hill publications, this quiz and payment can be submitted on line.
Approved for: AMA, ACSM CEC, and National Athletic Trainers' Association CEU
Hours: 3-6 per issue
Fee: $20 per issue ($15 to ACSM members)
URL: www.physsportsmed.com/cme.htm
Site last visited: 1/00
- THRI Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion (PLIF) Procedures with Cage Technology
Presented by: Texas Health Research Institute
Accrediting institution: Texas Health Research Institute
Release date: September 1998
Type: Text transcript with Web page-embedded slides
Content: This spinal surgical technique was developed at THRI. The 10 modules are adapted from a 1997 satellite course broadcast from THRI to spine surgeons around the U.S.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 4
Fee: $35
URL: www.thri-cme.org/index1.htm
Site last visited: 2/00
Pathology
- AFIP Department of Medical Education Online Courses
Presented by: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Accrediting institution: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Release date: 1992-2000 (current)
Type: Case presentations with pathology slides (GI), text articles (Legal)
Content: Four offerings: (1) The first Online Urologic Pathology Series on the bladder is freely available. Tons of slides and "50 tough questions." (2) Virtual Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Biopsy Course is a pathologist's educational resource containing 5 groups of eight patient cases each. A one-sentence history accompanies a handful of fairly well resolved pathology slides, and the next page gives the diagnosis and concise comments. On revisit, the new interface is a big improvement. The site warns that credit card information is not securely transmitted, so select among the phone, mail, or fax options. (3) RTPA Web conference 2001 is mid-way through their nine sessions of toxicologic pathology case discussions. The 2001 registration closed in September 2000, so keep this deadline in mind should AFIP offer the program again in 2002. (4) Another AFIP online resource accessible from this page, Legal Medicine, is described under our Administrative section.
Approved for: AMA, AOA (Legal)
Hours: 5 per section (Urology); 2 per group (GI); 36 (RTPA); 5 per issue (Legal Medicine)
Fee: No cost to military and federal health care providers; the rest of us pay $25 per group (GI) or $25 per issue (Legal). See fee scale on site for RTPA.
URL: www.afip.org/Departments/edu/cme.htm
Site last visited: June 2001
- UPHS Pathology CME Cases
Presented by: Univ of Pittsburgh Dept of Pathology
Accrediting institution: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Release date: 2001 (current)
Type:
Content: Eleven cases, not reviewed yet.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per case
Fee: No cost
URL: path.upmc.edu/cme
Site last visited: May 2001
Pediatrics
- Contemporary Pediatrics
Presented by: PDR.net
Accrediting institution: Jefferson Medical College
Release date: 2001 (monthly)
Type: full text articles
Content: In addition to the PDR.net CME/CE link at the top of the site, there is an online version of journal CME: one article per monthly issue. Active CME archives from the past 12 months are online as well, but every past issue must be accessed individually.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per article
Fee: no cost to journal subscribers; otherwise $20 per article
URL: cp.pdr.net/cp/index.htm
Site last visited: May 2001
- Smoking Cessation: Counseling in the Pediatric Office Setting
Presented by: HealthGate
Accrediting institution: Boston University
Release date: June 1997; updated and revised July 1999
Type: Not available
Content: Registrants must submit credit card information before accessing content.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1
Fee: $8
URL: www.healthgate.com/cgi-bin/gate/cme/cme-descr.cgi?name=card-smoking-0023&inst=bu
Site last visited: 12/99
- UNMC Pediatric Grand Rounds
Presented by: University of Nebraska Medical Center
Accrediting institution: Children's Memorial Hospital of Omaha
Release date: 1998 - current
Type: Medcast (archived)
Content: A well-maintained site, one of the best online. The more recent Ground Rounds (from November 5, 1999); lectures with current credits include the quiz and form on the same page that accesses the medcast. Current gives all webcasts for the month, all else are listed under Archives. Note that the courses are listed in reverse chronological order. Presentations are typical for an academic pediatric center serving the medical community, and technically the quality of the medcast is quite good.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 per rounds
Fee: No cost
URL: www.unmc.edu/Pediatrics/GrandRounds/
Site last visited: June 2001
- U Oklahoma CME on the Web
Presented by: University of Oklahoma CME
Accrediting institution: University of Oklahoma
Release date: 1998-1999
Type: Text-based summaries (peds) and article (ethics)
Content: Two types of pediatrics newsletters -- the Vector, filled with paragraph-long articles on pediatric infectious diseases, and What's Up Doc, which provides summaries on recent pediatric clinical studies. Both newsletter are on line, as are the CME quizzes. There is also an expensive course in medical ethics (see description under our Medical Ethics section.
Approved for: AMA
Hours: 1 (peds) - 2 (ethics)
Fee: $10 (peds) or $90 (ethics)
URL: cme.ouhsc.edu/cmeweb.htm
Site last visited: 2/00