Pharma-Free CME
PharmedOut CME
Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's: First, do no harm
Free CME/CPE/CEU/CE activity by PharmedOut
Continuing education credit available for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, and social workers.
This activity takes a critical look at treatments for Alzheimer's disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Lean about the history of Alzheimer's Disease and MCI, benefits and harms of currently available pharmacological treatments, how to best care for dementia patients, preventable causes of dementia, and ways to slow cognitive decline.
This activity is presented by PharmedOut and is supported by Kaiser Permanente.
Healthcare Providers: Click here to register and earn continuing education credit!
If you're not a healthcare provider, you can still watch the video: Click here to watch on Youtube.
How Industry Promotion Affects Prescribing
Free CME/CPE/CEU/CE activity by PharmedOut
Continuing education credit available for physicians, physician assistants, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, and social workers.
This activity covers how pharmaceutical companies use social psychology to affect therapeutic choices, and covers the use of key opinion leaders, medical science liaisons, medical meetings, geotargeting, geofencing, and other tactics used to market drugs to physicians and other health care providers.
This activity is presented by PharmedOut and is supported by Kaiser Permanente.
Healthcare Providers: Click here to register and earn continuing education credit!
If you're not a healthcare provider, you can still watch the video: Click here to watch on Youtube.
References available for download.
More Pharma-Free Continuing Education Opportunities
The Food and Drug Administration's Division of Drug Information in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research sponsors CE opportunities on FDA drug regulation and medication safety topics. Click here for all modules. Some modules include:
IHI Open School offers over 35 individual courses and certificates for continuing education credit. Browse their course catalog here.
From the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, over a thousand modules cover a wide range of topics including opioid treatment for chronic non-cancer pain, obesity prevention, and webcasts of various Grand Rounds. Click here for the CDC Train Course Catalog. See the "Credit Type" tab on the left to select the type of CE that fits your needs. Some modules include:
More CE from the CDC can be found with their Training and Continuing Education Online search engine. Although certain courses have moved to CDC TRAIN, there are still some courses available. Use the “CE type” dropdown list to select the type of CE that fits your needs.
This series of video lectures reviews the current state of science as related to complementary medicine.
The Clinical Directors Network has a library of over 300 webcasts covering topics including chronic disease, mental health, women’s health, clinical research, public health, and more. Many of the webcasts are available for free CME credit.
Presented by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Patient Safety Network, these text based case studies, focusing on patient safety issues, are available for free CME/CE.
Delay in Appropriate Diagnosis and Treatment Leading to Death from Pulmonary Embolism
Missed Compartment Syndrome after Steep Lithotomy Position for Laparoscopic Gynecological Surgery
Managing Complexity in Diagnosis: Life-threatening Complications after Gastric Bypass Surgery.
Missed Connection: A Case of Inadequate ECG Oversight in Cardiac Surgery
CME from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, including modules on comparative effectiveness, quality and patient safety, and prevention/care management.
The DC Center for Rational Prescribing was a joint project of the DC Department of Health, the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, and PharmedOut. Together, we created pharma-free Continuing Medical Education (CME) that is available free for DC health care professionals and at minimal cost for health care professionals outside of DC.
Naloxone in District of Columbia
Tight Control in Type 2 Diabetes: More Harm than Good?
Industry Influence on the Practice of Medicine
Taking a Sexual History to Reduce HIV Risk
Please visit https://dchealth.dc.gov/dcrx for CME and other resources on rational prescribing.
