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PharmedOut CME Modules
PharmedOut CME Modules
Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's: First, do no harm
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.
As of June 2025, this module is no longer available for continuing education credit. It is still available to view on our YouTube channel!
Click here to watch on Youtube.
How Industry Promotion Affects Prescribing
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.
As of May 2025, this module is no longer available for continuing education credit. It is still available to view on our YouTube channel!
Click here to watch on Youtube. References available for download.
More Pharma-Free Continuing Education Opportunities
More Pharma-Free Continuing Education Opportunities
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. Some topics include:
FDA Drug Topics Webinars
FDA Drug Topics Webinars
Please note: as of 8/12/2025 The FDA's accredited Continuing Education program is unable to process CE applications or CE credits... we will update this page when earning CE credit through this program is available again.
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 topics include:
This series of video lectures reviews the current state of science as related to complementary medicine.
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Family Physicians
IHI Open School offers over 35 individual courses and certificates for continuing education credit. Browse their course catalog here.
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.
DCRx
DCRx
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. While our collaboration ended in 2019, DCRx continues to offer online CME.
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.
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