Virtual Lecture Hall Patient Safety CME

Need more credits for patient safety cme? The Virtual Lecture Hall offers a membership for $50/year, but includes certificates for $60 worth of CME.

They accept no advertising, and are committed to high quality CME online courses. They have a special page for courses that fulfill Pennsylvania's patient safety requirements.

LEXI-ONLINE Drug Information

From any hospital pc, you can access the Pharmacy's subscription to LEXI-ONLINE, which includes thorough drug information, and patient education leaflets in over 20 languages.

http://online.lexi.com/crlsql/servlet/crlonline

If you have any questions about remote access please contact
David Mihalic PharmD RPh
Montgomery Hospital Pharmacy
1301 Powell Street
Norristown, PA 19401
610-270-2693

Free CME on Alcohol, Drugs and Health

This Continuing Medical Education (CME) activity involves reading a specific issue of Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence and then completing a test that will assess your comprehension of the information presented in that issue.

The newsletter, a project of the Boston Medical Center, is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and is produced in cooperation with the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. It provides succinct summaries of peer reviewed evidence on drug and alcohol topics. Powerpoint slide presentations are also available for educational uses.

PDR-net

Get access to the Physicians Drug Reference(PDR) online for free if you are in full time practice as an MD or DO. Once you register you have access to features such as:

Full FDA-approved product labeling
PDR's concise drug information
Multi-drug interaction checker
Specialty-focused resource centers
Daily news updates
Drug alerts and news
PDR eBooks
MEDLINE & Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Opportunities for receiving drug samples
Patient education
eDetail opportunities
Our point-of-care PDA downloadfor clinical decision support

Patient Education in Spanish from AFP

American Family Physician has a list of handouts in both English and Spanish on many common conditions. You can toggle back between English and Spanish.

Also, here is a dictionary of medical spanish.

Consultant now Online

Many of you are familiar with Consultant, and now there is ConsultantLive, a web version, with cme, a search engine for medical professionals, SearchMedica, and the Photoclinic case studies.

Drug Information Portal

Look up information on over 15,000 drugs from the National Library of Medicine's Drug Information Portal.

The coverage includes:
Consumer info through MedlinePlus

Breastfeeding info through ToxNet

Manufacturer's Drug Label

Dietary Supplements

Clinical Trials

FDA

CME from the Cleveland Clinic

The Cleveland Clinic offers a series of video webcasts of their grand rounds presentations Medicine Today, with CME credit available.

In addition check out their other free online CME courses.

CME from Prime

Prime provides accredited CME for physicians, both free and fee based. Check out their site, organized by speciality.

Sermo: Join an online physician community

Launched in September 2006, Sermo is already the largest online physician community in the US, with 115,000 physician members. On Sermo, physicians exchange knowledge with each other and gain insights directly from colleagues. Sermo harnesses the power of collective wisdom and enables physicians to discuss new clinical findings, report unusual events, and work together to improve patient care. Through its unique business model, Sermo is free to physicians and has no advertising or promotion.

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Ozmosis: Physicians-Only Social Network

FREE Patient Safety CME

Earn CME for your Patient Safety and Risk Management requirements for licensure with the following two sites:

AHRQ's WebM&M: Morbidity & Mortality Rounds on the web

http://www.webmm.ahrq.gov/


A Physician's Guide to Practical Culturally Competent Care

The Department of Health & Human Services is offering CME on culturally competent care, that equips health care professionals with awareness, knowledge, and skills to better treat the increasingly diverse U.S. population they serve.

https://cccm.thinkculturalhealth.org/