Online CME - Patient Safety Courses

Below is a list of online CME courses/sites that have been reviewed by Albert Einstein Medical Center’s Office of Continuing Medical Education. Sites selected allow physicians to obtain CME credit hours either free of charge or for a minimal expense. Within each of these sites, patient safety and risk management topics are offered. Information on how to search each site is provided along with the URL.

Hand Hygiene CME
Free CME
http://www.einstein.edu/education/cme/article9924.html

To help you fulfill your CME obligation, the Office of Academic Affairs in conjunction with Medical Staff Board is pleased to provide Einstein physicians with the Hand Hygiene CME, eligible for 1 CME credit hour.

Agency For Healthcare Research and Quality
Free CME
http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov

AHRQ features “Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web”, an online journal and forum on patient safety and health care quality. This site features expert analysis of medical errors (cases reported anonymously) in multiple specialties. Search for the interactive learning modules titled “Spotlight Cases”. All qualify as patient safety topics for CME credit. AHRQ WebM&M offers continuing medical education (CME) credit for completion of Spotlight modules only. Each Spotlight Case has an expanded commentary by a national expert. After completion of a module, the user may choose to obtain credit for successful completion of the quiz. By completing each month's Spotlight quiz, users can obtain up to 12 CME credits per year.

• Registration required
• After registration, click CME on top navigation bar
• You must then register independently for the CME site
• After registration, click CME Quizzes
• Select a case and begin

Medscape from WebMD
Free CME
http://www.medscape.com

Medscape offers continuously updated continuing education activities by specialty for physicians and other health professionals. There are over 100 courses to choose from that have been developed by ACCME-accredited organizations. It is recommended that you use the following guidelines for searching the site to identify courses that will qualify as patient safety topics.

• Click CME on top navigation bar
• Use CME Search (top right corner).
• Type in keywords patient safety, risk management or preventive medicine
• Click Go

A red CME tag will appear to the left of the topic if it qualifies for CME.

Thomson’s FreeCME
Free CME
http://freecme.com

Physicians can search this site for courses that qualify as Patient Safety by using the “Search by Keyword” bar located at the top right corner of the home page. Simply type in the words “standard of care” and topics that relate to patient safety will appear including evidence-based medicine, communication between physicians and patients and preventative medicine education. Physicians will need to register for this site in order to be able to take the course and receive CME credit(s).

ACP Online
Subscription Required: $75.00
http://cpsc.acponline.org

The American College of Physicians (ACP) online offers 48 interactive Clinical Problem Solving Cases (CPSC) in various subspecialties of internal medicine – each worth 1 CME credit hour. Physicians are asked to evaluate a case presentation, choose diagnostic tests, determine a differential diagnosis, order treatments, respond to outcomes, manage complications and face other challenges associated with real-life case management. Physicians receive test results and get to read through evidence-based evaluations of their decisions. Links to diagnostic images, charts, lab values, test utility ratings, clinical calculators, latest references and other data are included.

A subscription cost of $75.00 guarantees you access to all 48 cases - and up to 48 hours of CME.

MedRisk e-Learning Services
Fee per Course
http://medrisk.com

MedRisk® provides a way to meet your risk management education needs by offering study guides and tests that earn you Category 1 CME credits.

• Click on the Online CME button from the home page to see a listing of course offerings.
• More moderately priced courses such as risk management: communication among colleagues, documentation or patient communication are available at $25.00 per course and will qualify as patient safety CME.
• Registration required before ordering self-study courses online.

Other CME Sites

Following are suggested sites for physicians who want to obtain CME credit hours online or who want information on national CME programs/events to attend:

CMEweb.com from PDRnet online education offers a selection of online CME activities in 23 specialties and 30 topic areas. Low cost to physicians who wish to obtain CME credit from this site. Symposiamedicus.com from Symposia Medicus provides physicians with a comprehensive offering of CME courses covering a variety of specialties.

http://cmelist.com/list.htm from Bernard Sklar, MD, MS. This is an annotated list of online CME. Links to, and descriptions of, more than 300 Online CME sites offering more than 12,500 courses and more than 22,000 hours of CME credit.