CME Courses: State Required CME

CME/CE Credits: ACCME

Activity Expires: 6/18/13 —28 days

Overview

This Cases on the Web activity describes 2 cases and presents various clinical decision points, each focusing on a patient undergoing testing for HIV-1 drug-resistance mutations. At each decision point, learners should select the option that they think is most sound and then read the presenters’ explanation of that option. Selecting the correct option links the learner to an extended discussion of the related medical findings, research-based evidence, and case management considerations.

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CME/CE Credits: ACCME

Activity Expires: 7/5/13 —45 days

Overview

After evaluating a specific article published in Annals of Internal Medicine, participants in the CME activity should be able to demonstrate an increase in, or affirmation of, their knowledge of clinical medicine. Participants should be able to evaluate the appropriateness of the clinical information as it applies to the provision of patient care.

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CME/CE Credits: ANCC

Activity Expires: 10/8/13 —140 days

Overview

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Unfortunately domestic violence continues to be a problem in America today. So many people are impacted by domestic violence, that it is highly like as a health care professional you will encounter a victim of domestic violence. Because of this, this course will allow you to learn to identify the behaviors and signs of domestic violence and as a health care professional you will have a protocol in place in how to handle it.

Target Audience
This course is designed for Florida nurses required to obtain a two-hour Prevention of Domestic Violence course as a condition for licensure renewal. This course is also designed for Florida nurses looking to enhance their knowledge on identifying and preventing domestic violence.

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CME/CE Credits: ACCME

Activity Expires: 12/30/13 —223 days

Overview

For physicians who wish to advance their current knowledge of symptom management and supportive care. Learning Objectives Describe the effect on the palliative prognostic score classifications when delirium was included as a variable. Compare changes in overall survival times when delirium was added to the palliative prognostic score.

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CME/CE Credits: ACCME

Activity Expires: 12/31/13 —224 days

Overview

Physicians and other clinicians, medical professionals and first responders participating in this program will be able to identify factors involved in bioterrorism events, bioterrorism agents, clinical recognition of syndromes, preventing person-to-person transmission, communication, disposition, mental health issues, and additional resources. Meets Columbia University School of Nursing and Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine Clinician Competencies (HRSA endorsed) – specific to biological events (CME credit available)

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CME/CE Credits: ACCME, ACEP, ANCC, IACET, NBCC

Activity Expires: 7/31/15 —801 days

Overview

Audience
This course is designed for all Florida healthcare professionals required to complete domestic violence education.

Domestic violence continues to be a prevalent problem in the United States today. Because of the number of individuals affected, it is likely that most healthcare professionals will encounter patients in their practice who are victims. Accordingly, it is essential that healthcare professionals are taught to recognize and accurately interpret behaviors associated with domestic violence. It is incumbent upon the healthcare professional to establish and implement protocols for early identification of domestic violence victims and their abusers. In order to prevent domestic violence and promote the well-being of their patients, healthcare professionals in all settings must take the initiative to properly assess all women for abuse during each visit and, for those women who are or may be victims, to offer education, counseling, and referral information.

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As most Americans know, conflicts of interest riddle the US health care system. They result from physicians practicing medicine as entrepreneurs, from physicians' ties to pharma, and from investor-owned firms and insurers' influence over physicians' medial choices. These conflicts raise questions about physicians' loyalty to their patients and their professional and economic independence. The consequences of such conflicts of interest are often devastating for the patients--and society--stuck in the middle.

In Conflicts of Interest and the Future of Medicine, Marc Rodwin examines the development of these conflicts in the US, France, and Japan. He shows that national differences in the organization of medical practice and the interplay of organized medicine, the market, and the state give rise to variations in the type and prevalence of such conflicts. He then analyzes the strategies that each nation employs to cope with them.

Unfortunately, many proposals to address physicians' conflicts of interest do not offer solutions that stick. But drawing on the experiences of these three nations, Rodwin demonstrates that we can mitigate these problems with carefully planned reform and regulation. He examines a range of measures that can be taken in the private and public sector to preserve medical professionalism--and concludes that there just might be more than one prescription to this seemingly incurable malady.

Microsoft Office 2010: Introductory provides a project-based, step-by-step approach to teaching the Office 2010 applications.

With the popularity of the Internet, more and more people are turning to their computers for health information, advice, support and services. With its information based firmly on research, The Internet and Health Communication provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in human communication and health care resulting from the Internet revolution. Representing a wide range of expertise, the contributors provide an extensive variety of examples from the micro to the macro, including information about HMO web sites, Internet pharmacies, and web-enabled hospitals, to vividly illustrate their findings and conclusions.

An eye-opening look at Big Pharma's unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global South.

"Medical research imposes burdens. But generally speaking, we don't like to know it….If the history of human experimentation tells us anything, from the bloody vivisections of the first millennium to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, it is that such burdens made secret will fall heaviest on the poorest and most powerless among us."—from The Body Hunters

This groundbreaking book reveals the unethical drug-testing practices of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. In its quest to develop lucrative new drugs for the world's rich, the industry has turned away from the health needs of the world's poor. And yet, over the past decade, Big Pharma has quietly exported its clinical research business to the global South, where ethical oversight is minimal, and sick, poor, and desperate patients are abundant.

In The Body Hunters, investigative journalist Sonia Shah shows how the pharmaceutical industry is using testing procedures in the global South that would cause scandals in the developed world. In India, dozens of patients in drug trials have perished suffering deadly side effects known to the FDA; in Zambia, AIDS babies in clinical trials have been administered placebos.

The Body Hunters is based on several years of original research and reporting from Africa and Asia, and describes dozens of trials, as well as the checkered history of Western medical science in poor countries.

This Third Edition of the highly-praised Practical Guide for Medical Teachers continues to provide a bridge between theoretical aspects of medical education and the practical delivery of enthusiastic teaching. As in its previous editions it will act as an invaluable aid to clinicians as well as other healthcare teachers in their understanding of contemporary educational principles, providing practical help in the delivery of the variety of teaching situations which characterise present day curricula. Key concepts and tips are presented in a digestible form and in a way which indicates both their immediate relevance and practical implications.

• The textbook covers a topical subject in a concise format
• A highly practical text including useful "Tips" throughout
• Highly referenced with questions to interest the reader and back-up advice given
• Contributed by an international team of authors, including many of the leading names in medical educational development worldwide.

• A new text design, continuing to use an attractive two colour presentation throughout.
• New chapters on clinical learning in the early years; the early years of postgraduate training; preparation for general practice and the educational environment.
• Other new chapters discuss learning in rural and remote locations; learning with simulated patients; the role of mentoring; giving feedback; and the new concept of mobile learning (M-learning).
• A final new chapter on professionalism
• Up to fifteen new contributors from a wide range of countries and health professions thus providing an international perspective and presenting a multi-professional approach to all topics of interest to medical teachers.

Since 1986, Slee s Health Care Terms has served as a guide to nonmedical terminology essential to understanding the U.S. healthcare industry. Now with over 8,000 non-medical words, phrases, and acronyms related to the healthcare industry, Slee's Health Care Terms is the leading healthcare dictionary available today. This multidisciplinary healthcare lexicon covers the broad range of topics that turn up in every public policy or hospital board discussion. It covers finance and reimbursement, managed care, government regulation, legal issues, and more.

This is a must-read for summer runners, baby-boomers, and anyone who suspects that they or a loved one has been harmed by medical errors in our health care system. Hundreds of thousands of Americans die each year from medical errors, but most mistakes are kept secret from patients. After learning a few basic tools of cardiology, the reader shares a journey of heartbreaking mystery and discovery as a father pieces together the events that led to the death of his 19-year old son, despite extensive evaluation by a "team" of cardiologists. That personal struggle opens into a broad-ranging examination of our profit-driven health care system. The story concludes with an appeal for ten patient's rights to protect us all before we personally encounter the dangers of our health care system.

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