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If the license to practise meant the completion of his education how sad it would be for the practitioner, how distressing to his patients! More clearly than other the physician should illustrate the truth of Plato’s saying that education is a life-long process - Sir William Osler
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Continuing Medical Education and Social Media for Physicians: Finding the Right Mix
When most of us think of continuing medical education, we think of conferences, question banks, and journal articles. But social media is quickly gaining a foothold in this space. A new survey of 250 physicians, conducted by MedData Group, found that about half of all respondents were using social media professionally — and not just to network or advertise their practices. They also reported using social media to keep up with health care news and engage with other clinicians in active discussions about medical care. While many clinicians still consider social media a time-sink, these physicians have found a way to make it work for them as they continue their education in medicine.
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Can Continuing Medical Education Be Saved?
Over the past decade, the CME world has undergone a sort of slow-moving, self-appraising upheaval, mainly centered upon what role the pharmaceutical industry should play in the funding and content of educational courses.
Emerging Market Medical Education Goes Digital
In many places, health workers are taking CME into their own hands simply by going online to improve their knowledge and skills. In the Philippines, for example, a group of doctors founded an online community called HealthXPh that uses social media to mobilize discussion about healthcare topics.
The Insanity of Doctor Recertification
Many have argued that the test should be scrapped, and we should simply do the open-book online modules on a regular basis, which are more in line with the reality of learning in an information-saturated environment. Last year, the American Board of Anesthesiology junked its decennial exam in favor of weekly open-book quizzes.
Commercially funded CME programs and whether bias can be removed
The growing criticism of industry funded continuing medical education (CME) over the past several years has had a number of significant effects on the CME community.
Continuing Medical Education Payments To Physicians Will Be Exposed To Sunshine
After a long and complicated struggle it now appears highly likely that industry will be required to disclose payments to physicians for continuing medical education (CME).
Conventional Wisdom?
Is the pace of medical discovery really so blistering that only a circuit of nonstop meetings can accommodate the headlong rush of critical new information? Or is the constant conference part of the drug companies' scheme to hypnotize the doctor class and create a fleet of medical Manchurian Candidates?
Pharma Boosts Support for Continuing Medical Education, But Only a Little
Amid ongoing scrutiny of industry influence over medical practice and research, new figures show that companies increased their spending on continuing medical education last year by 2%. Although this represents a modest uptick, the report suggests that spending by drug and device makers has leveled off in recent years in response to sustained controversy over CME funding.
Three Reasons Why You Don't Need To Feel Sorry For Doctors
I'm not a doctor and I don't have strong opinions about how doctors should be certified or, more to the point right now, what they should have to do to maintain their certification over the course of their careers.
Why Are These Doctors So Mad? What It Means for You
A group of doctors has circulated a petition to do away with independent examinations of doctors’ medical knowledge and requirements to improve their practice, saying it is too burdensome and not relevant to what they do every day. Their solution? Continuing medical education, shorthand for no independent determination of whether a physician is keeping up-to-date.
Continuing Medical Education and Social Media for Physicians: Finding the Right Mix
When most of us think of continuing medical education, we think of conferences, question banks, and journal articles. But social media is quickly gaining a foothold in this space.
Doximity
You might call us medical groupies. Doximity’s passion for working with clinicians is what helped us grow to No. 1. We believe that when the whole care coordination team is connected, patients benefit and the medical sector works better. Listening to what clinicians need and then building simple tools to solve complex problems is what we do. Our vision is a future where medical communication is effortless — fast, simple, seamless and secure.
DailyRounds
We are a team of passionate doctors, developers & designers with a firm belief that a case-based, problem solving approach can revolutionize medical education. A problem solving approach would make medical education fun and at the same time can have direct impact on patient outcomes.
CECentral
UK HealthCare CECentral delivers high-quality live and enduring continuing professional development activities to health care professionals using evidence-based practice, adult learning principles and innovative web-based technology.
Clinical Care Options
CCO believes the way to optimize clinicians’ competence in providing the highest standards of evidence-based medicine is through effective education and the availability of the latest clinical information, whenever and wherever it is needed. CCO is dedicated to improving patient care by providing superior-quality, relevant educational content and clinical knowledge as delivered through its innovative and integrated online and mobile platforms, which provide comprehensive and personalized information solutions.
ClinicalWebcasts.com
Clinical updats and program catalog with a large CME archives.
CME Sam
Find CME meetings, webinars, and self study courses from leading providers worldwide here at CME Sam. Follow us for the latest news in continuing medical education. At CME Sam, healthcare professionals are able to search hundreds of CME courses across 22 medical specialties and multiple CME providers using individualized search criteria. Our site includes both CME meetings and online/self study CME courses for physicians, physician assistants, nurse anesthetists, radiologic technologists, and nurses.
CME4Life
Our website says what we do: we teach CME so you remember and use it 4 Life. We make medicine come alive because we understand that not everyone learns well through traditional methods like pie- charts, lists, graphs and busy power points slides. We provide unique solutions to educate those who provide medical care and help clinicians become more effective in patient care.
CMECorner.com
Welcome to CMEcorner.com, your resource for free* professional education publications, videos, multimedia and online activities designed for healthcare professionals. New programs are added frequently.
CMEinfo
With CMEinfo's self-study multimedia continuing medical education, you can learn at your own pace in the comfort of your home, office or car. There's no traveling. No expensive air or hotel bills. No loss of income or time from your practice. Just the detailed knowledge you need for your board certification or re-certification exams and continuing medical education.
CMEList
The most comprehensive list of continuing medical education anywhere.
CMES
The Continuing Medical Education on Stick (CMES) is a collaborative initiative to improve access to CME for medical practitioners in resource poor areas.
CMEweb.com
The web's largest source of instant on-line CME. AHC Media's incisive, useful, up-to-date publications are read by more than 50,000 people per month in the fields of clinical medicine, health care management, and biotechnology and medical devices.
CMEZone
Applied Clinical Education (ACE) is dedicated to the development and implementation of certified Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities that are designed to meet and respond to specific needs of healthcare professionals. These educational activities are intended to advance patient care and foster lifelong learning.
Continuing Education Inc
Continuing Education, Inc.'s University at Sea® cruises are a perfect way to combine high-quality, live-lecture Continuing Education and a great family vacation
Cyberounds
Welcome to Cyberounds interactive grand rounds moderated by distinguished academics, exclusively for physicians, medical students and other selected health professionals.
Educational Symposia
Our symposia and our video/DVD programs are recognized for their large faculties of renowned physicians selected for their teaching ability and their expertise. Conference venues are invariably excellent, with care taken to provide superb audio-visual support, excellent acoustics, and spacious meeting facilities.
EM:RAP
Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives is a monthly audio series for Emergency Medical practitioners. Born in September 2001, it now is heard by over 20,000 subscribers every month and is the #1 audio program in emergency medicine. EM:RAP features a world-class faculty from around the globe, presenting a range of EM topics in a tightly edited audio format.
EMedHome.com
EMedHome.com's mission is to provide a user-friendly clinical resource that is designed to be the premier educational website for Emergency Physicians.
ExtendMed
Our team of professionals is dedicated to providing you with the highest level of personal service. Our staff offers you the diverse mix of specialized skills you need for managing successful live web events and on-demand programs.
FreeCME.com
AHC Media's incisive, useful, up-to-date publications are read by more than 50,000 people per month in the fields of clinical medicine, health care management, and biotechnology and medical devices.
Hippo Education
At Hippo Education we’ve had our noses to the grindstone of cutting-edge medical education for over 13 years. At Hippo (like Hippocrates, not the large semi-aquatic mammal that flips your canoe) our mission is to deliver delightfully awesome, modern, and entertaining medical education to our medical colleagues around the world.
Med-Challenger
Med-Challenger provides physicians, nurses, and other healthcare practitioners and their institutions with intelligent online medical education, board exam review, MOC & CME requirements, group e-learning and training solutions, and lifelong learning resources across all major medical specialties
Medical Education Resources
MER is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). MER is widely-recognized as one of the leading providers of high-quality continuing medical education symposia and educational materials for physicians.
myCME
Our goal is simple: to help clinicians provide the best possible care for their patients. We do that by partnering with leading academic centers and top clinicians to show how the latest scientific advances can be put to use in day-to-day practice.
NetCE
The purpose of CME Resource is to provide challenging curricula to assist healthcare professionals to raise their levels of expertise while fulfilling their continuing education requirements, thereby improving the quality of healthcare.
North American Center for Continuing Medical Education
NACCME is committed to developing and disseminating live, print, and web-based CME/CE activities to provide an educational forum through which healthcare practitioners may examine current medical issues, therapies, and technologies. The content of NACCME-sponsored CME/CE activities is designed to bridge the gap between current and best healthcare practices and to improve healthcare quality by strengthening practitioner awareness of evidence-based patient care advances in a broad range of therapeutic areas.
OpenCME
OpenCME is dedicated to providing you with an unparalleled, “always-at-hand” choice of relevant medical education from the world’s most highly regarded academic institutions, medical societies and opinion leaders.
Physicians' Travel and Meeting Guide
Physicians' Travel and Meeting Guide, formerly known as CMEPlanner.com, is the most comprehensive online databank of domestic, international and online CME and non-accredited medical meetings based on specialty.
Practical Reviews
Practical Reviews provides subscribers access to peer-reviewed journal summaries and commentary that allow healthcare professionals to stay current with critical research. Additionally, Practical Reviews offers its subscribers with a convenient way to earn CME and CDE credits.
Pri-Med
With over 500 CME offerings-via live meetings, online activities, and print publications - Pri-Med offers the broadest range of practical, high-quality CME/CE, enabling more doctors to share more knowledge more efficiently. In doing so, we speed new therapies from the minds of researchers to the hands of those who need them.
PRIME
PRIME® is a leader in educational program design, accreditation, execution and evaluation. PRIME®'s certified team of professionals provides its customers with cutting-edge scientific and technical educational services and products
ScientiaCME
ScientiaCME is a company dedicated to providing practicing healthcare professionals, inclusive of physicians, midlevel practitioners, pharmacists, and nurses, with the highest quality continuing medical education and continuing education.
Institute for Advanced Medical Education
The Institute for Advanced Medical Education has been a leading provider of continuing medical education, providing practice-changing experiences for physicians, nurses, technologists and other health care professionals. IAME is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education... CME is our only business.
MomMD
With a community of over 1 million and 11,000+ active members, MomMD is the largest and best site devoted to connecting women in medicine. Our goal is to encourage and support women physicians, residents, medical students, premeds, and nurses, not only in their careers but also in their everyday life. We invite you to browse the site and enjoy the free resources.
StudentDoc
Welcome to studentdoc one of the oldest sites devoted to life as a medical student. Starting with your premed years, prepping for the MCAT and applying to medical schools, studentdoc takes you through the transformative journey from student to physician.
123Doc Education
We deliver customized educational programs in the medical field, both in the form of seminars and online courses. Our product range includes online e-courses for Medical students, Nurses and allied health care professionals, Foundation doctors, junior doctors preparing for postgraduate exams, GPs and Consultants.
AllConferences.com
Global Conference Directory & Event Planning Solutions.
American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians
The American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, Inc. (ABQAURP) has evolved to become the nation's largest organization of interdisciplinary healthcare professionals. ABQAURP remains at the forefront of Health Care Quality Management (HCQM), a field so vital to all medical specialties and health care professions.
American Educational Institute
Leading Edge Continuing Medical, Dental & Legal Education Where You Want It, When You Want It.
American Medical Forum
The American Medical Forum offers CME courses for primary care providers. Short 45 minute presentations provide an update on the latest advances in clinical medicine and the supporting evidence as well as current guidelines. All participants will receive the relevant content pertaining to each presentation in electronic form. CME credits are available and should be claimed by participants commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Medical Seminars
AMS was granted Accreditation by the ACCME to become the responsible provider of CME for physicians and other healthcare providers. AMS currently provides approximately 25 live CME activities from November through June each year.
American Physician Institute
American Physician Institute provides high-yield continuing medical education, presented by knowledgeable experts and designed to be the most convenient and effective way to meet the career needs of practicing physicians.
American Seminar Institute
American Seminar Institute has been the trusted source for Accredited, Vacation-Friendly, Top-Quality Continuing Education Programs, for Medical and Dental Professionals for over 30 years.
AudioDigest
Go digital with our most convenient and economical subscription format. Online Only subscribers simply sign-in and the latest MP3cast release is automatically loaded for easy access. Test online 24/7 with immediate results.
CE Search Engine
Utilize the only Search Engine dedicated exclusively to healthcare CE and search for the continuing education programs that interest YOU. With thousands of CE hours from hundreds of CE providers, you're certain to find CE programs to satisfy your state requirements and personal interests.
Empire Medical Training
At Empire, we believe your success is dependent, in part, on receiving quality training and instruction. Empire Medical Training is a nationally recognized CME Training Institution for Physicians, Nurses and other Health Care Professionals. Our programs are fully accredited by the American Academy of Family Physicians to provide continuing education for physicians and nurses.
Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association
Interstate Postgraduate Medical Association, a physician-led 501(c) organization, designs and provides independent education for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and other health care professionals.
Medscape
Medscape Education Complete medical education (CME/CE) and training with our online courses available across 1,000+ topics in a variety of formats.
National Procedures Institute
NPI provides medical education (CME conferences) on procedural skills for primary care clinicians.
OptumHealth
At OptumHealth Education, we integrate medical expertise and adult learning principles with dynamic technology to deliver compelling CME programming to health care professionals in a variety of formats. Our goal is to utilize evidence-based and scientifically rigorous CME content, merged with unique medical and pharmacy claims data assets, which increase our ability to measure the affects and outcomes of our CME activities with exceptional precision and unparalleled effectiveness.
Projects In Knowledge
Projects in Knowledge offers Medical Education Activities such as clinical case studies and provides the latest medical news.
ReachMD
In October 2007, ReachMD launched new online streaming access to all programming and CME content and continues to expand the listening audience and deliver on it's mission of providing the best communication, education and information to America's medical professionals.
Symposia Medicus
Since 1978, Symposia Medicus has been providing the highest quality continuing health education to physicians, nurses and other health care professionals all over the globe. Our mission is to promote the improvement of patient care by enhancing the skills of health care professionals in a relaxing and stimulating environment.
The Pass Machine
Each year, American Physician Institute works with hundreds of physicians to produce dozens of board-preparation and CME courses. The goal of each course is to provide high-value, up-to-date and comprehensive medical education to physicians from around the country, to both ehelp them expand their knowledge and to improve the treatment they provide.
TheAnswerPage
Welcome to TheAnswerPage.com, a family of educational websites for the medical professional. Our specialty sites feature the Question of the Day, complete with a peer-reviewed, referenced answer authored by faculty from Harvard Medical School and other distinguished institutions.
TheConferenceWebsite.com
Welcome to theconferencewebsite.com, the free one-stop website for all your Medical Conference and Course needs. Designed and run by a Doctor, we can help you find the best Conferences and Courses in your Medical Specialty.
UpToDate
We at UpToDate are committed to helping clinicians provide the best possible care for their patients. We do this by producing an educational product, UpToDate, that offers the most practical, most current, most authoritative, and most easily accessible information available on a clinical topic. We seek to integrate the best evidence with the best experience to provide practical and detailed recommendations that clinicians can use and trust.
Virtual Lecture Hall
The VLH is committed to improving the state of online continuing medical education (CME) programs for health professionals by developing and evaluating innovative approaches to CME and promoting interactive, evidence-based, "problem-solving" CME programs.
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