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Mental Health Sequelae of Extreme Violence
Provided by: Harvard Medical School
The world today has become a very violent place. More than 50 countries and over 1 billion people today have been affected by mass violence. America has been attacked by terrorists and is facing future attacks. The mental health impact of this violence can be high. Studies have shown that in times of distress, most citizens will seek out family mem... |
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MRI of the Brain Sella, Part II
Provided by: PROSCAN Imaging Education Foundation
The ProScan Imaging Education Foundation's all-new Professional MRI Series provides a comprehensive educational program that encompasses a broad survey of up-to-date radiological knowledge in the neurological and musculoskeletal realms. Lectures address in-depth discussions of neuroradiology of the brain, spine, head and neck, and pediatric imaging... |
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Thrombosis in Children
Provided by: CMElectures
Leslie Raffini, MD, is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of hematology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is currently completing a National Hemophilia-sponsored fellowship in clinical hemostasis and thrombosis. She has completed a two-year National Hemophilia Foundation sponsored fellowship in clinical hemostasis. Here,... |
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Systemic miRNA-195 Differentiates Breast Cancer from Other Malignancies and Is a Potential Biomarker for Detecting Noninvasive and Early Stage Disease
Provided by: The Society for Translational Oncology
1. Describe the site-specific dysregulation of some miRNAs and explain their potential as non-invasive biomarkers for diagnosis, prognostication, or markers of treatment response.
2. Cite the characteristics reflected by circulation miR-195 and explain how elevated levels could be used as a breast tumor marker. ... |
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Mosby's Oncology Nursing Advisor: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Practice
Provided by: Anderson CE
Mosby's Oncology Nursing Advisor: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Practice provides quick access to essential information on a wide range of cancer topics, including types of cancer, treatment options, symptom management, palliative care, and patient teaching. Its user-friendly layout makes it ideal for use in any clinical setting.
Key Feature... |
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SET 3-Volume MRI of the Female Pelvis Series
Provided by: PROSCAN Imaging Education Foundation
The Master's Series features Dr. Stephen J. Pomeranz's most advanced lectures on diagnostic imaging to date. These intense and detailed presentations will focus on the topics of orthopaedic, neurologic, and body imaging. Each title in the series will examine subjects such as subtle interpretative techniques, anatomic detail, mastery of key technica... |
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Genetics: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Provided by: Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has an estimated prevalence of 1 in 500 adults and therefore represents a common genetic disease with significant morbidity and mortality. This CME will help the primary care provider recognize clues to t... |
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Tuberous Sclerosis
Provided by: University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
1. Identify major and minor clinical diagnostic features of TSC;
2. Implement standard clinical practices for the diagnosis, screening, and treatment of those TSC features with highest disease-associated morbidity and mortalit;
3. Discuss the emerging treatment... |
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Disparities In Asthma: Who Is At Risk? Disparities in prevalence, healthcare utilization and morbidity attributable to asthma continue to increase primarily among minority and poor populations.
Provided by: CME University
Asthma in the United States continues to be characterized by alarmingly persistent, if not increasing, healthcare disparities. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reviewed asthma prevalence, disease characteristics and self-management education in the United States over the period of 2001 – 2009. The overall prevalence ... |
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Care & Guidance
Provided by: Projects In Knowledge, Inc.
In May 2011, the FDA approved two new drugs for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection: boceprevir and telaprevir. These drugs, when combined with peginterferon and ribavirin, offer significantly higher response rates and shorter durations of therapy compared with the current standard of care therapy and give new hope to HCV-infected patien... |
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The New Leadership Challenge: Creating the Future of Nursing, Third Edition
Provided by: Anderson CE
For those interested in the topic of leadership, The New Leadership Challenge: Creating the Future of Nursing may have something to offer. Pilot study nurses wrote: "loved it, timely, relevant, provocative;" "excellent, valuable tool;" "wish I had this type of course in nursing school;" "really enjoyed the leadership activities." Not all pilot nur... |
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Breast Biopsy
Provided by: PROSCAN Imaging Education Foundation
Breast MRI is reported as valuable in detecting cancer in women who have a personal history of breast cancer, those patients with greater than 25% lifetime risk of breast cancer, and those with dense breasts -a condition associated with breast cancer risk but which decreases the sensitivity of the gold standard screening exam, mammography. MRI help... |
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Genetics: Hereditary Breast Cancer
Provided by: Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
In this course, a 36-year-old woman presents with concerns about her family history of cancer. Her cousin has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer at age 29. She wants to know if she should start to have mammograms and/or MRIs... |
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Child Abuse in Ethnic Minority and Immigrant Communities
Provided by: NetCE
Child abuse and neglect is a serious social problem. Research indicates that a significant number of children in the United States have been victims of physical abuse. The figures show that ethnic minority children (i.e., African Americans, Native American Indians/Alaskan Natives, and Pacific Islander children) have higher rates of reported child a... |
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Abscess Drainage (SAM)
Provided by: American Roentgen Ray Society
ARRS Web lecture series brings presentations by the best educators in the field to your desktop, available for viewing at home or office and on your schedule. This Webcast includes 2 lectures with an estimated time to complete the activity of 1.5 hours.
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IRB Advisor 1409
Provided by: CMEweb.com
**Objectives:**
* Establish clinical trial programs using accepted ethical principles for human subject protection
* Apply the mandated regulatory safeguards for patient recruitment, follow-up and reporting of findings for human subject research
* Comply with the necessary educational requirements regarding informed consent and human subjec... |
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Top 10 Occupational Diseases
Provided by: The Ohio State University Medical Center
Description
According to the National Institutes of Health, Occupational health problems occur at work or because of the kind of work you do. These problems can include cuts, broken bones, sprains and strains, or amputations, repetitive motion disorders, hearing problems caused by exposure to noise, vision problems or even blindness, illness cause... |
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Surefire Methods for Defensible Coding: Know What Makes it Correct
Provided by: American Association of Professional Coders
We all like to think we are 100% accurate. But if you were forced to prove it -could you? Can you find and differentiate controlling from persuasive criteria?For a coder, mistakes are transparent and create potential for big problems, such as failed audit results, improper denials and lost practice revenue -or worse, improper payments and potential... |
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Postchemotherapy Histiocyte-Rich Pseudotumor Involving the Spleen
Provided by: American Society for Clinical Pathology
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:
* recognize the clinical, morphologic, and immunohistochemical features of postchemotherapy histiocyte-rich pseudotumor.
* differentiate postchemotherapy histiocyte-rich pseudotumor from other entities in the differential diagnosis.... |
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Sexual Addiction
Provided by: NetCE
Professionals continue to debate whether sexual addiction can be classified and treated in the same realm as chemical addictions; this course will give participants the necessary information and allow them to decide for themselves. The course will contain information on several core concepts: sexual compulsivity, sexual addiction, sexual anorexia, ... |
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Using Advanced Technology for Glycemic Control in the ICU
Provided by: ProCE
The target audience for this program includes pharmacists and nurses in health-system settings. After completing this activity, the participant will be able to:
* Discuss patient safety factors associated with paper protocols versus software programs for achieving glycemic control
* Describe advantages of obtaining glucose control in a shorter ti... |
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MRI of the Male Pelvis -Part I -Prostate Anatomy
Provided by: PROSCAN Imaging Education Foundation
The Master's Series features Dr. Stephen J. Pomeranz's most advanced lectures on diagnostic imaging to date. These intense and detailed presentations will focus on the topics of orthopaedic, neurologic, and body imaging. Each title in the series will examine subjects such as subtle interpretative techniques, anatomic detail, mastery of key technica... |
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Iowa Pharmacy Law and Information Manual Update
September 2009
Provided by: The Collaborative Education Institute
Learning Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this activity, pharmacists should be able to:
1. Identify changes made to the Iowa Pharmacy Law and Information Manual since April 2009
2. Determine if your pharmacy practice needs to make changes to be in compliance with the
law and/or rule changes
3. Implement changes in the Iowa pharmacy la... |
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Clinical ECGs Part 2 -Arrhythmias
Provided by: CMElectures
David J. Callans, MD, is a professor of medicine at the university of Pennsylvania, and director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the physician secretary for the American Board of internal Medicine Cardiology Exam.
This lecture and the post-test is worth 1.5 credit hours.
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EMTALA: An E.R. Law That Affects All Physicians, 2nd Edition
Provided by: Virtual Lecture Hall
* Recognize EMTALA laws and their effect on the practice of emergency medicine so physician decisions are in compliance with EMTALA laws.
Meets Special CME Requirements in: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas ... |
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Achieving Cultural Competency: 53 y/o Russian Immigrant With Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Provided by: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Learning objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be better able to:
* Assess the possibility that a patient's previous healthcare experiences in other societies may make it difficult for them to access US healthcare services.
* Review the importance of obtaining a trained medical interpreter to facilitate effective com... |
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A Computerized Injection System for Local Pain Control
Provided by: American Dental Association
This course describes a new computerized local anesthetic injection system for pain control. The core technology of this system is the microprocessor-controlled delivery of anesthetic solution at a constant pressure and controlled volume, regardless of encountered variations in tissue resistance. This fine-tuned, high suffusion flow rate of anesthe... |
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AAOS Guidelines: Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee (nonarthroplasty)
Provided by: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
After completing this CME module, participants will be able to
1. Apply the guidelines when treating a patient with osteoarthritis of the knee.
2. Evaluate evidence regarding nonoperative treatment protocols for care of the patient with osteoarthritis of the knee.
3. Understand evidence-based medicine and how the AAOS guideline develo... |
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Reporting Guidelines: FDG PET/CT In Oncology
Provided by: SNM Advancing Molecular Imaging and Therapy
Reporting Guidelines: FDG PET/CT In Oncology... |
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Cytoplasmic Expression of Nucleophosmin Accurately Predicts Mutation in the Nucleophosmin Gene in Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Normal Karyotype
Provided by: American Society for Clinical Pathology
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:
* describe the clinical significance of nucleophosmin (NPM1) mutation in acute myeloid leukemia.
* explain how immunohistochemistry can be used as a surrogate for detection of NPM1 mutation in acute myeloid leukemia.
* list various laboratory methods for detection of NPM1 mutational s... |
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