Access hard-to-find state-required CME credits through UBM Medica’s partnership with CME University

CME University provides online access to over 40 courses, covering topics critical to the completion of state-required CME. These AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and ANCC Contact Hours focus on subject areas essential to a primary care practice, including pain management/prescribing controlled substances, medical error prevention, infection control, domestic violence, end-of-life care and ethics.

See some of the available courses below:

Practice Management

• Techniques to Avoid Medical Charting Errors in the Practice Setting

• Liability Issues in Managing Noncompliant Patients

• The Fundamentals of Performance-Based Medicine

• 10 Ways Your Office is Being Mismanaged, And What to Do About It

• Federal Anti-Kickback Laws: What Physicians Need to Know

• The Intricacies of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act What You Don't Do May Harm You

• Physician Self-Referral (Stark Law)

• Building a Compliance Program

• How to Resist Hospital Aggregation

Opioids

• Mitigating the Risk of Prescription Opioid Misuse in the Management of Acute and Chronic Painful Conditions: Part 1 - Introduction, History, and Shared Guidelines

• Mitigating the Risk of Prescription Opioid Misuse in the Management of Acute and Chronic Painful Conditions: Part 2 – Wisconsin-Specific Guidelines and Risk

• Opioid-Induced Constipation

Infectious Disease

• Clostridium difficile and Overuse of Antibiotics: What to Know

• New Options for Treating Hepatitis C in the Coinfected HIV Patient

• Recognizing Lyme Disease Skin Rash To Avoid Misdiagnosis

• Medical Error Prevention: Infection Control and Avoidance of Injury in Office-Based Vaccine Delivery

Pain Management/Palliative Care/End of Life

• Medical Cannabis in 2016: A Changing Landscape

• Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Influences on Palliative and End-of-Life Care

• Deciding When and How to Discontinue Preventive Medications in Elderly Patients

• Evidence-Based Complimentary/Integrative Medicine Techniques for Pain Management

• When Life-Sustaining Treatment Is Medically Inappropriate: Practical Strategies for Responding to Family Demands

Geriatrics

• Drug Therapy for Older Type 2 Diabetes Patients: When Do Hypoglycemia Risks Outweigh HbA1c Goals?

• Deciding When and How to Discontinue Preventive Medications in Elderly Patients

• Screening for Elder Abuse in Patients Cared for at Home

Ortho/Musculoskeletal

• Subacromial Impingement Syndrome: A Review of Nonoperative Treatment for Primary Care Physicians

• Knee Pain in the Primary Care Setting: Evaluation, Treatment Options, and When to Refer

Women’s Health

• Prescribing Hormone Therapy for Postmenopausal Women: Optimizing the Balance of Benefits and Risks

• Appropriate Screening and Documentation when Sexual Assault Is Suspected in the Adult Patient

Respiratory

• How to Differentiate Whooping Cough from Other Respiratory Infections

• Patient Education Techniques to Assure Appropriate Use of Asthma Controller and Rescue Medications and Improve Adherence

Gastro

• Laryngopharyngeal Reflux: Diagnostic Pitfalls and Treatment Strategies

• Diagnosing and Treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome

General Primary Care/Other

• Using Injury Algorithms to Discriminate Physical Child Abuse from Trauma

• The Case For and Against Annual Checkups