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Becoming a better doctor

For the most part, I don't make New Year's resolutions. I've always thought that the beginning of a calendar year was an arbitrary time to decide to start or stop doing something, and despite being the start of a new decade, 2020 feels no different. However, for the past several months, I have been working on a few professional self-improvement projects that I hope will make me a better doctor in the long term.

Last fall, I completed a training course through the Providers Clinical Support System and obtained my DATA waiver in order to provide medication-assisted treatment with buprenorphine to patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). As I observed in a Medscape commentary last year,…

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Resources

Family Medicine Forum

Canada's premier family medicine conference.

AAFP

Prepare for your Boards, maintain certification, or enhance your clinical skills with family medicine CME produced by the AAFP.

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.

Audio-Digest Foundation

Our mission is to provide high-quality, convenient, and affordable continuing professional education to physicians and other healthcare professionals so they can meet the growing requirements to learn and to improve patient care, thereby promoting/enhancing the health of the general public.

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.

CMEList.com

Become a better family doctor by studying the Family Medicine CME courses linked from CMEList.com

Global Academy for Medical Education

Global Academy for Medical Education Inc. develops educational programs (live, web, and print) that are accredited through joint sponsorship with ACCME-accredited providers. All activities are planned and implemented in accordance with Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). These activities are under the complete control of the accreditation partner.

MCE Conferences

CME organized by primary care physicians without commercial support. MCE Conferences has specialized for many years in providing quality education programs at beautiful locations worldwide. Allowing healthcare professionals to learn as well as relax with their family and friends.

MDLinx

Family Medicine and CME Conferences.

Medscape

Medscape Education (medscape.org) is the leading destination for continuous professional development, comprising 30+ specialty-focused websites offering thousands of free CME/CE courses (ranging from 0.25 credits to 2 credits AMA PRA credits) and not-for-credit activities for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.

More CME

Here's some of the best over-all sites for CME...Nowadays you can fulfill all your requirements online. Then again who wants to stay home - there has to be a CE event at your favorite city or that faraway beach or ski resort.

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.

Pri-Med

From nationwide conferences to online case studies, clinical reviews and expert perspectives, Pri-Med offers the tools you need to advance patient care.