Pharma-Free CME

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. Some modules include: 

• Frequently Asked Questions about Labeling for Prescription Medicines

• Counseling Patients on Generic Drugs

• Overview of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) for Health Care Providers

IHI Open School offers individual courses and certificates for continuing education credit. 

• Conservative Prescribing

These Grand Rounds cover a range of Public Health topics. In the links below, scroll to “Continuing Education” section (right column) for the registration link, CDC Course Code, and CPE UAN. CDC Course Code: PHGR10.

• Preventing Cervical Cancer in the 21st Century

• Reducing Polysubstance Use in Pregnancy

• Acute Flaccid Myelitis: Answering Questions Through National Collaboration

• Smoking Cessation: Past, Present, and Future

• Measles – Maintaining Disease Elimination and Enhancing Vaccine Confidence

• The Emerging Role of Pathogen Genomics in Public Health

• Addressing Gaps in Health Care for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

• PFAS and Protecting Your Health

• Maternal Immunization: Current Status and Future Directions

• Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Nutrition — The Thousand Day Window of Opportunity

• Turning the Tide: The Role of Water Management to Prevent Legionnaires’ Disease

More CE from the CDC can be found with their Training and Continuing Education Online search engine. Use the “CE type” dropdown list to select the type of CE that fits your needs.  

• FASD Primer for Healthcare Professionals

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.

• Opioid Prescribing in the COVID-19 Era

• 2020 The Beatrice Renfield Lectureship in Research Nursing: Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Research

• Innovative Strategies to Eliminate HCV

• Medicaid Delivery and Payment Reform: Experience of MA and NY Community Health Centers

• Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Racial/Ethnic Minority Women

• Addressing Barriers and Facilitators to PrEP Adoption and Persistence

• Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): Best Practices for Pharmacists

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

• Code Status vs. Care Status

• Premature Closure: Was It Just Syncope?

• Inpatient Stroke Management in an Adolescent with Type 1 Diabetes and Home Insulin Pump

• When the Lytes Go Out: A Case of Inpatient Cardiac Arrest

• Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

• The NSTEMI Curbside Consultation

• When the Indications for Drug Administration Blur

• Fatal Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression

• Implicit Biases, Interprofessional Communication, and Power Dynamics

• Some Patients Can’t Wait: Improving Timeliness of Emergency Department Care

• Discharged with IV antibiotics: When issues arise, who manages the complications?

• “This is the wrong patient’s blood!”: Evaluating a Near-Miss Wrong Transfusion Event

• "Do You Want Everything Done?": Clarifying Code Status

• Missed Opportunities for Suicide Risk Assessment

• Anemia and Delayed Colon Cancer Diagnosis

CME from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, including modules on comparative effectiveness, quality and patient safety, and prevention/care management.

• AHRQ's Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice: Training Modules for Health Care Leaders and Professionals