CME-Directory

Start Date: 01/15/2011
End Date: 01/15/2014

Description: This is a Comprehensive Review of Emergency Medicine presented by experience faculty from across the county. This is a live recording of the Emergency Medicine Review, available in Audio MP3 or CD, and Video MP4 or DVD and good for up to 24.75 hours of Emergency Medicine CME credits. Cost is approximately $995 to $1395.

Set amidst the Skeena Mountain Range of Terrace BC, Canada this CME will allow family and emergency physicians to receive first-hand educational updates from leading orthopedic surgeons, emergency physicians and most experienced mountain guides and avalanche experts. The overall objective is to provide the target audience with the opportunity to interact with colleagues and allow for direct one-on-one learning from consultant orthopedic surgeons. The conference venue is the Yellow Cedar Lodge, home to a relaxed meeting setting and the operations of Northern Escape Heli-Skiing. Pre and post days of enjoying some of the world's finest skiing conditions, delegates will be engaged in accredited currciulum during this unique academic retreat.

After the resounding success of the sold out 2009 & 2010 Winter Escape Emergency Medicine CME's, we are pleased to announce this third annual academic retreat. Happening February 25 - March 1, 2011 this experience welcomes medical professionals to improve their credentials mixed in with some outstanding powder filled adventures. The conference venue is the Yellow Cedar Lodge, home to a relaxed conference environment and the operations of Northern Escape Heli-Skiing. An academic retreat to provide a therapeutic update in emergency medicine. The curriculum offered is designed to suit the educational needs of physicians whose practice include part or full-time emergency medicine. However, we are confident that this educational program will also appeal to any primary-care physicians looking to enhance their emergency medicine skill sets.

The Emergencies in Medicine conference invites you to join us in Park City for our 28th year of CME. This is an intimate meeting run by five physicians actively involved in education and research at our own institutions (who, by the way, love to ski)! We bring in over forty of our colleagues from around the country. Each speaker will give one 30 minute talk, thus keeping the discussions fresh and lively. Our objectives are to provide you with an indepth educational program that balances the basic and more controversial areas of emergency care, wrapped around a world-class ski and snowboard experience.

The APLS Course will be presented in the 1-day format. The core of the APLS Course – Pediatric Assessment, Airway, Cardiovascular, Trauma, Central Nervous System, and Medical Emergencies – will be presented through case-based lectures, small group case discussions, and hands-on skill labs. Participants are expected to review APLS: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Resource Manual prior to the course. This flexible format is designed to give the participant many options for expanding learning opportunities. Pre- and Post-study and testing options are available to earn additional CME online and/or earn the APLS Course Completion Card. For more information on these options, please call Tina Patel at 1-800-433-9016, ext 4795. Individuals participating in live course activities will receive a minimum of 7 CME credits. A course fee of $175.00 plus NCE registration includes the APLS resource manual (mailed prior to the course) and meals. Enrollment will be limited to 80 participants in order to maintain small groups for discussions and workshops.

All of our courses are approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors, the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification, and National Association of Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors. This course on Crisis Intervention is taught using text, narrated PowerPoint and mp3 audio. All course materials and reference materials are available free online. The learner objectives follow. Identify the definitions and general principles regarding crisis intervention and suicide prevention. Describe the principles of crisis intervention. List and describe the core components of and steps involved in crisis intervention. Describe the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of and benefits of prevention. Describe the suicide assessment and treatment plan. Describe the process of information gathering and the types of information necessary. Identify steps involved in estimating and reassessing suicide risk. Describe how to establish a multiaxial diagnosis. Identify and describe additional considerations when evaluating patients in specific treatment settings. Describe the factors in establishing and maintaining a therapeutic alliance. Describe and identify transference and countertransference. Describe the management of recurrently suicidal patients. Describe the suicide prevention contract. Identify somatic and psychosocial interventions. Describe how to determine an appropriate treatment setting. Describe the components of and promoting adherence to the treatment plan. Understand specific issues such as patients in a suicidal crisis, patients with chronic suicidality and patients with borderline and antisocial personality disorders. Identify components involved in documentation and risk management. Identify mental health interventions for survivors and points when communicating with survivors.

Start Date: 02/09/2011
End Date: 02/09/2014

Description: Emergency Medicine Radiology Review available in DVD video, audio CD and other formats. Good for up to 15 hours of CME credits. Cost is approximately $1095.

Join us for this nationally and internationally recognized basic critical care course, sponsored under a license forwarded by the Society of Critical Care Medicine. This course is designed to train healthcare providers in the initial evaluation and management of critically ill and injured patients for the first 24 hours of critical care. Course Objectives: 1. Immediately assess the needs of the critically ill patient. 2. Identify appropriate diagnostic tests for the critically ill patient. 3. Respond to significant changes in an unstable patient. 4. Initiate management of acute life-threatening conditions. 5. Recognize the need for expert consultation and/or patient transport. 6. Prepare the critically ill patient for optimally supported transport. 7. Perform hands-on skills in real-time.

This is the premier course for high altitude medicine held in North America. Sponsored by the Wilderness Medical Society. Join us for this world-class educational event!

This course is designed to provide attendees with a high-yield and broad review of stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases, including cerebrovascular physiology and pathophysiology, primary and secondary stroke prevention, acute ischemic stroke evaluation and management, neuro-critical care, brain aneurysms and vascular malformations, intracranial hemorrhage, and complications of stroke.

Start Date: 02/09/2011
End Date: 02/09/2014

Earn up to 5 Emergency Medicine CME Credits from MedRisk Emergency Medicine Risk Management CME Text Course available in Online Text or Hardcopy and approximately $75.

Start Date: 02/09/2011
End Date: 02/09/2014

Practical Reviews in Emergency Medicine keeps you informed of the most important research and clinical findings published in Emergency Medicine each month. Available in MP3, Audio CD, and Multimedia Online. Good up to 48 Emergency Medicine CME credits approximately $299 to $599 per year.

Conscious Sedation Consulting is offering a comprehensive didactic continuing education course on the administration of conscious (moderate) sedation and analgesia. This course is appropriate for all non-anesthesia health care providers who are involved in the administration of sedatives and analgesia. Course has been developed in accordance with core principles described in The American Society of Anesthesiology Guidelines for Non-anesthesia Providers. This course is designed to present information that will assist independent licensed practitioners, nurses and assisting staff to make decisions in their practice that will result in safer sedation programs.

This two-day workshop will address the need to integrate quality improvement and safety into medical education. Designed for health profession educators, this workshop will disseminate the knowledge and tools necessary to successfully implement QI and safety education in undergraduate medical education (UME), graduate medical education (GME), continuing medical education (CME), and allied health schools.

The 30th Annual Emergencies in Medicine conference provides the perfect setting for interactive medical education and communication. This 5-day conference focuses on virtually every aspect of emergency medicine through case-based lectures and audience interaction. From disaster planning to wound care and pain management, quality mandates, practice management and economics, each of these educational areas is timely and central to the emergency physicians effort to maintain medical excellence while navigating the evolutionary changes taking place throughout the healthcare system. The educational format for the Emergencies in Medicine conference was designed by emergency medicine physicians for the emergency medicine professional. This is a patient centered conference for emergency medicine physicians, nurses, and ancillary emergency medicine professionals. Over the course of 5 days, expert faculty will guide attendees through in-depth, pivotal research and effective practices in emergency medicine in engaging formats. For more information and to register visit checourse.com/members/eim/ or contact krey@checourse.com or 760-942-7859.