Virtual Lecture Hall CME Courses
Virtual Lecture Hall CME Courses
Credits: 2 (AMA PRA Category 1)
Format: Online Streaming Video
Price: $25/hour
Release Date: 1/26/2010
Expiration Date: 1/15/2018
Summary: Course Topics:
- the changing legal environment surrounding rape and sexual assault.
- Manage patient concerns and law enforcement issues that arise in cases of sexual assault.
- Work with trained sexual assault nurse examiners.
- Perform forensic examination.
- Arrange for necessary medical treatment and follow-up of sexual assault victims.
- Learning Format: interactive online course, including mandatory assessment questions (number of questions varies by course or module) that is Case-based.
Credits: 4 (AMA PRA Category 1)
Format: Online Streaming Video
Price: $25/hour
Release Date: 9/8/2015
Expiration Date: 9/7/2017
Summary: Course Topics:
- Understand the differences between people who become patients and those who choose not to seek medical care.
- Identify the situations that turn patients into plaintiffs.
- Refrain from using behaviors that precipitate lawsuits.
- List the behaviors of never-sued physicians and incorporate them into daily practice.
- Use patient-centered interviewing.
- Recognize potentially litigious patients and put into practice methods for dealing with them.
Credits: 1.5 (AMA PRA Category 1)
Format: Online Streaming Video
Price: $25/hour
Release Date: 11/1/2015
Expiration Date: 10/31/2017
Summary: Course Objectives:
- Ask questions that will help you understand the patient's Explanatory Model, or understanding, of her illness experience.
- Base your approach to culture using the LEARN mnemonic: Listen, Explain, Acknowledge, Recommend, and Negotiate.
- Ask and respond to patients' faith-based values and goals for care.
- Help patients to anticipate and consider aspects of the dying process they might not have considered.
- Open up communication with others who will be involved in patients' end-of-life care.
- Incorporate patients' values and preferences in advance care planning.
- How to respond to requests from a patient's family that raise ethical questions.
- Determine how to offer truth in order to elicit your patients' preferences.
- Negotiate solutions that respect patients' preferences as well as your ethical duty.
- Look at the evidence for and against complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices.
- Advise patientsbased on evidence.
- Negotiate treatment plans with patients who incorporate CAM.
- Build trust and have open communication with patients.
Credits: 2 (AMA PRA Category 1)
Format: Online Streaming Video
Price: $25/hour
Release Date: 8/17/2016
Expiration Date: 8/16/2016
Summary: Course Objectives:
- Use appropriate medical evaluations in cases where abuse is suspected.
- Gather an appropriate history in cases where child abuse is suspected.
- Communicate well with investigative services.
- Document abuse thoroughly in the medical record.
- Use recent clinical advances to cases where child abuse is suspected
Credits: Up to 14.5 (AMA PRA Category 1)
Format: Online Streaming Video
Price: $25/hour
Release Date: 1/6/2014
Expiration Date: 1/5/2018
Summary: Course Objectives:
- Know how to diagnose common pain problems.
- Determine and manage functional status in pain patients.
- Know how to manage long-term pain medications, particularly opioids.
- Use referral and ancillary care providers in the treatment of chronic pain.
Credits: 3 (AMA PRA Category 1)
Format: Online Streaming Video
Price: $25/hour
Release Date: 9/8/2013
Expiration Date: 9/7/2017
Summary: Course Topics:
- Define legality of doctors' obligations.
- Present the past of suits about malpractice.
- Discuss behavior differences of physicians who have and have not been sued.
- Provide strategies to eliminate medical malpractice risk.
- Provide claims about medical malpractice by describing required aspects.
Credits: 2 (AMA PRA Category 1)
Format: Interactive Online
Price: $25/credit hour
Release Date: 4/1/2015
Expiration Date: 7/4/2019
Summary: Featured Content:
- Assess the functional effects of pain in patients
- Manage acute and chronic back pain
- Appropriately utilize a range of therapeutic options when managing patients with chronic pain
- Comply with current opioid risk-management practices, including the use of pain contracts and urine drug testing
- Educate patients on the proper use, storage, and disposal of opioid medications
Credits: 1 (AMA PRA Category 1)
Format: Interactive Online
Price: $25/credit hour
Release Date: 8/14/2015
Expiration Date: 8/13/2017
Summary: Featured Content:
- Using empirically valid clinical parameters to assess and operationalize acute suicidal risk
- Taking immediate actions to manage the risk of suicidal behavior
- Referring patients with suicidal ideation to behavioral health clinicians
Credits: 1 (AMA PRA Category 1)
Format: Interactive Online
Price: $25/credit hour
Release Date: 10/20/2014
Expiration Date: 10/19/2018
Summary: Course Focus:
- Diagnose the clinical syndrome of porphyria cutanea tarda
- Diagnose hepatitis C
- Adjust the treatment of hepatitis C based on viral genotype and liver pathology
Credits: 1.5 (AMA PRA Category 1)
Format: Interactive Online
Price: $25/credit hour
Release Date: 5/1/2015
Expiration Date: 4/30/2019
Summary: Featured Content:
- Define “health disparities” and how they disproportionately affect ethnic and racial minority populations in the United States
- Describe the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards of the USDHHS Office of Minority Health and how they impact the ethical responsibilities of medical service providers
- Recognize that “ethnicity,” “race,” and “culture” are fluid categories that overlap and also include other aspects of identity that can include religion, sexual orientation, gender, class, etc
- Describe the practice of “cultural competence” in the health care setting
- Successfully navigate a Mexican American patient with limited English proficiency through the process of establishing culturally and linguistically care and obtaining referrals for treatment of her asthma
- Utilize the 7 basic components of asthma care and management according the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (2007)