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The Columbia County Medical Society is pleased to be able to assist its members in finding continuing medical education resources online.

Professional Society Sites
{bluedot}American Medical Association On-line CME and Archives Journal CME
{bluedot}Southern Medical Association
{bluedot}American Academy of Family Physicians - offers free online CME from Scientific Assembly Lectures, AFP Clinical Quiz, AFP Monographs, AFP Online CME Cases, and the FPM Quiz
{bluedot}Clinical Problem Solving Cases of the American College of Physicians - Interactive, clinically based patient care scenarios that cover differential diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. (requires fee)
{bluedot}Southern Medical Association CME Home Study Courses -courses on various patient care topics. Non-member physicians must send checks for $30.00 for 2 CME units. Tests are submitted online, but certificates are delivered by mail.

Academic Sites
{bluedot}University of Florida Learning Modules - no fees
{bluedot}The Virtual Hospital of the University of Iowa. $15 per hour of CME.
{bluedot}Medlecture.com - A library of video-streamed Grand Rounds lectures from top medical schools that are available for CME credit. Fee registration.
{bluedot}Baylor College of Medicine - Slide show lectures linked to Medline references. Users participate in an on-line forum and complete a post-test with immediate grading. Free Online CME with registration.
{bluedot}University of Washington - Provides online CME courses for primary care practitioners. Full text and images can be viewed for free without registration, but Category I CME credits require a fee.
{bluedot}Cleveland Clinic Foundation CME Modules - Users review primary care journal articles and cases and answer follow-up questions. The format is case-based and interactive. There are no fees and no registration is required and the CME certificate can be printed out upon completion.
{bluedot}Johns Hopkins Saturday Medicine Rounds - Archived audio files of Saturday Medicine Rounds presentations that were originally broadcast live over the Internet. Earn CME credits with completion of an online quiz. Requires a fee and registration.
{bluedot}Annenberg Center for Health Sciences - Earn CME by watching slide show lectures, such as "Outsmarting Stroke".
{bluedot}Internet CME Project - clinical histories and selected images from the oncology clinical case archives of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas. Users offer diagnoses and then receive feedback that includes links to pertinent medical literature and peer-reviewed abstracts. $100 for 10 hours of Category I credit.
{bluedot}University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School - Online CME Materials. One credit hour for $15.
{bluedot}Cancer Control Journal Online CME - CME units are offered for reading issues and answering the questions in the post test, from the University of San Francisco.
{bluedot}EuroTransMed Foundation for CME - RealAudio multimedia files and programme summaries are free of charge to registered doctors.

Commercial Sites

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{bluedot}HealthStreamUniversity.com - Over 550 CME modules including text, graphics, and video categorized by medical specialty. A typical charge is $10 per credit hour. Restricted registration or content areas. Subscription fee.
{bluedot}Medscape - now offers instant CME certificates online for selected free courses and many of the fee-based offerings.
{bluedot} MD Consult - Choose from over 450 modules to earn category 1 credit, with instant feedback, at the CME Center Study. Subscription fees: $199.95 per year, $19.95 per month, or $6.95 for 24 hours.

{bluedot} cmeWeb - "The Physician's One-Stop Resource for CME on the Web" Each test is worth 1.5 hours of AMA category 1 credit for just $15. Your test will be graded online and your certificate delivered immediately by E-mail. For more information call 800-688-2421, or write to American Health Consultants, POBox 71266, Chicago, IL 60691

{bluedot}Virtual Lecture Hall for Health Professionals - Interactive, evidence-based CME courses for $8 - 9 per credit hour after free registration.
{bluedot}Audio Medica CME Audio Files - Audio journals in realplayer format featuring interviews with leading specialists about recent clinical developments.
{bluedot}InteractiveHealth.org - Offers an extensive listing of Internet-based continuing medical education courses.
{bluedot}CME-Reviews.com - Provides psychiatry and neurology online coursework for the psychiatrist, neurologist, and primary care physician. $5 per CME credit.
{bluedot}CME-WebCredits Audio/visual modules on popular clinical practice topics by the Health Communication Research Institute, Inc.
{bluedot}CMEcourses Courses in various specialties of medicine. Special programs from the Cleveland Clinic. Virtual webcast of online educational event. Fee registration. Fee transactions.
{bluedot}CMEWeb Medical Education for Physicians Offers emergency medicine and primary care tests for physicians with on-line registration, credit card payment, and online certificate of participation. 1 CME credit costs $10. American Health Consultants. Free registration
{bluedot}HealthGate - CME coursework from the Boston University School of Medicine. answer questions on-line and receive certificates in six weeks. 1 CME credit costs $8 after free registration.
{bluedot}Medconnect Interactive Education Cases - Offers monthly essays, sights, sounds and interactive CME quizzes with immediate feedback. Designed for those interested in Emergency Care, the modules cost $95+ for 12 CME units with online credit card payment available.
{bluedot}The Interactive Patient - interact with a simulated online "patient" and request history, perform a physical exam, and review laboratory data. Submitted diagnosis and a treatment plans are evaluated and feedback is provided. One CME unit for $15.
{bluedot}Arc Mesa Educators - Text reviews of popular topics from a number of medical specialties in HTML or PDF format. 3 credits for $30.00 with completion of the post test.
{bluedot}CME-CE.com - Online slide presentations that offer a wide range of continuing medical activities for healthcare professionals from Strategic Implications International, Inc.
{bluedot}Cyberounds - Moderated reviews and case discussions annotated with images, graphics, sound, and video, from the University of Texas/Houston and interMDnet Corporation. 50 hours of Category 1 CME runs $125.
{bluedot}EduNet Programs - Learning modules followed by a post-test, from McMaster University and Achoo. $15 per CME hour credit.
{bluedot}Power-Pak Physician CME - Continuing medical education coursework with online text and graphics from Jobson Publishing. No fees apply and registration is free.
{bluedot}CME Gateway - Online medical education courses modules at the Medical Education Collaborative.
{bluedot}Doctor's Dilemma Online - interactive medical ethics program with hypothetical cases covering assisted suicide, abortion, AIDS/HIV, alternative therapies, artificial insemination, etc. from the Medical College of Georgia and Gold Standard Multimedia Inc. Fee is $99 for 15 credits.
{bluedot}Frontiers in Biomedicine Grand Rounds CME at Helix - Archived showcase of lectures on scientific discoveries in AIDS, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Each lecture offers 1.5 credit CME hours after completion of a program evaluation. Washington University and Glaxo Wellcome Inc.
{bluedot}Informed Online Accredited Medical Education - accredited learning opportunities, with articles on subjects such as "Domestic Violence", "HIV/AIDS", "OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens", "Risk Management", etc. One unit for $25.00. Medical Education Group Learning Systems.
{bluedot}MDLink Online CME Centre - Text and video learning modules such as "Androgen Deficiency in the Aging Male." Organon and Canada's Cyberplex.
{bluedot}Meniscus Medical Online Continuing Education - Medicine, pharmacy, and nursing accredited CME opportunities from the Meniscus Educational Institute.
{bluedot}Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act Online CME Course - Covers course material that provides information needed for physicians to be lab directors under CLIA. Users send in quizzes by email after each module. The total program costs $400 and awards 20 credit hours.

Government Sites
{bluedot}NIH Consensus Development Program - review these detailed statements that represent consensus views from government sponsored panels of experts, send in a posttest and receive a certificate for credit hours. No fees apply.
{bluedot}Armed Forces Institute of Pathology - Accredited CME learning modules on toxicologic histopathology, urologic pathology, legal medicine, and gastrointestinal endoscopic biopsy. (requires registrationand subscription fee)
Directory Sites
{bluedot}Medical Matrix - a free directory of selected medical sites on the Internet. Each site listing has been carefully evaluated by reviewers from our panel of physicians and medical librarians to meet our criteria for information quality and site usability, with an emphasis on usefulness to healthcare practitioners. We charge no fees to register or use the Medical Matrix database.
{bluedot}Online CME Sites - an alphabetical listing of sites offering ACCME-accredited CME, maintained by Bernard Sklar, MD, University of California, San Francisco.
{bluedot}Medical Computing Today - Extensive listing of sites which offer Category I CME credits approved by the AMA. Also gives a date of when the educational material was last updated, by Marjorie Lazoff, M.D. and the staff of Medical Computing Today.
{bluedot}Doctor's Guide list of Webcasts - directory of audio-visual webcasts offered by academic centers and private companies. Fee transactions. P\S\L Consulting Group Inc.
{bluedot}CME Unlimited Online - A catalog of more than 3500 audio, video and cd-rom titles for continuing medical education. Fee transactions. Audio-Digest Foundation.



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