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Cushing’s Disease Research Highlights: ENDO 2023
This 30-minute CME program highlights the latest clinical research about Cushing’s disease.
Cushing’s disease is caused by an adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-secreting pituitary tumor that leads to excessive levels of cortisol.
This CME program, hosted by Lisa Machtigall, MD, Clinical Director, Neuroendocrine & Pituitary Tumor Clinical Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, provides an overview of the latest cli... |
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Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine 2024 - LIVE STREAMING
The Comprehensive 2024 Update on Office-Based Primary Care Medicine
Taught Live Online by Harvard Medical School's Leading Clinical Faculty
Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.
OVERVIEW
Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine provides comprehensive reviews of the most important recent advances impacting primary care medicine and guidance to assimilate these changes... |
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Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 2024 - LIVE STREAMING
Comprehensive Updates for State-of-the-Art Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Treatment
This comprehensive live streaming online course, which is among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses, provides education and updates to optimize your care of patients with:
• Sepsis
• ARDS
• Sarcoidosis
• IPF
• Bronchiectasis
• Cystic fibrosis
• Lung nodules
• Lung cancer
• GERD
• Pleural disease
• Pneumonia
• Tuberculosis
• Thromboembolism
• Chronic cou... |
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Acromegaly: Improving Timely Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment
Acromegaly, caused by excessive growth hormone production from the anterior pituitary gland, results in disproportionate growth of body tissues and other metabolic dysfunctions. With causes divided into primary GH excess, ectopic or iatrogenic GH excess, and excess growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH), adult patients have the characteristic facial features of a large lower jaw, a prominent forehead, and large hands and feet. These features occur after the growth plates are fused, distinguis... |
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Infectious Diseases in Adults 2024 - LIVE STREAMING
State-of-the-art approaches to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases
This comprehensive Harvard Medical School CME program"one of the highest-rated HMS CME courses"ensures attendees are current with state-of-the-art approaches to prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases. Updates, best practices and new guidelines are presented by nationally recognized ID experts and master clinicians. Education is practical and results driven:
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Anesthesiology Update 2024 - LIVE STREAMING or IN PERSON
The Comprehensive 2024 Anesthesiology Update
Cardiac, Regional, Office-Based, Thoracic, Obstetric, Neuro, and Pediatric
Anesthesiology Update will be held on May 6-10, 2024. You have the option to attend either online as the course is live streamed or in person in Boston, MA.
In the past year, there have been a number of very significant clinical changes that affect the practice of anesthesiology. This comprehensive CME program provides a special and timely opportunity for anesthesiolo... |
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Diabetes Update 2024 - LIVE STREAMING
This highly rated Harvard Medical School CME course offers practical strategies to address the medical and systemic challenges to optimal care and updates that ensure you can deliver state-of-the-art care for your patients with diabetes.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
This program affords you the opportunity to learn from leaders in the field of diabetes who are distinguished for their outstanding teaching, knowledge, and innovations in clinical care.
Participants can rely on this program for compreh... |
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Hot Topics in Lupus: SLE Pathophysiology
Despite the known short- and long-term adverse outcomes related to glucocorticoid use, patients with SLE are still taking moderate to high daily doses of steroids. Fortunately, 2 biologic therapies aimed at different therapeutic targets in the type I interferon pathway and with better safety profiles than glucocorticoids are currently available for use. These biologics, along with off-label immunosuppressants, can be implemented in customized ways to mitigate or eliminate the use of glucocort... |
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Hot Topics in Lupus: Individualizing Steroid-Sparing Regimens
Despite the known short- and long-term adverse outcomes related to glucocorticoid use, patients with SLE are still taking moderate to high daily doses of steroids. Fortunately, 2 biologic therapies aimed at different therapeutic targets in the type I interferon pathway and with better safety profiles than glucocorticoids are currently available for use. These biologics, along with off-label immunosuppressants, can be implemented in customized ways to mitigate or eliminate the use of glucocort... |
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Hot Topics in Lupus: Targeted Biologic Treatment Options
Despite the known short- and long-term adverse outcomes related to glucocorticoid use, patients with SLE are still taking moderate to high daily doses of steroids. Fortunately, 2 biologic therapies aimed at different therapeutic targets in the type I interferon pathway and with better safety profiles than glucocorticoids are currently available for use. These biologics, along with off-label immunosuppressants, can be implemented in customized ways to mitigate or eliminate the use of glucocort... |
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Optimizing Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care - LIVE STREAMING
In this special program, faculty from Harvard Medical School, the Brigham Transition Care Team, and the Boston Children’s Hospital BRIDGES Adult Transition Program provide strategies, best practices, and guidance to:
• Identify adult care providers and successfully transfer patients with rare or complex health care needs
• Assess and improve the efficacy of your current transition processes
• Tailor transition strategies to patient age, disease type, and physical/ intellectual capab... |
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Innovations and New Practices in Internal Medicine 2024 -LIVE STREAMING
The State of the Art in Internal Medicine
This program, which is among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses, provides a comprehensive update of the most important changes now impacting Internal Medicine and guidance on how to incorporate these changes into your clinical practice to improve patient outcomes..
Practical, Fast-Paced, Online Education
This live streaming educational experience is fast paced, relevant to the current healthcare environment, and draws upon real... |
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Sports Medicine 2024 -LIVE STREAMING
The Comprehensive 2024 Sports Medicine Update
State-of-the-Art Approaches to the Diagnosis, Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Prevention of Sports Injuries
This Harvard Medical School CME program, which is among the highest-rated HMS CME courses, provides a special and timely opportunity to hear directly from world-renowned physician specialists (physiatrists, orthopedists, radiologists), team physicians and athletic trainers for the Boston Red Sox, New England Revolution, and New England P... |
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NeuroRehabilitation 2024 - LIVE STREAMING
Comprehensive Neurorehabilitation Update
Cutting-edge strategies, updates, and best practices for state-of-the-art rehabilitation
In this course, which is among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses, many of the country’s most experienced and committed neurorehabilitation experts will present cutting-edge clinical interventions, the latest findings, practical education, and hands-on methods to further your expertise in guiding your patients with stroke, SCI, TBI, brain t... |
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Graft vs Host Disease: Novel Management Strategies for a Chronic Condition
Target Audience
The intended audience for this activity is transplant specialists, oncologists, hematologists, and other healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of patients with GVHD.
Program Overview
This enduring activity takes learners on a compelling journey in managing chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) by explaining the evidence-based diagnostic criteria for cGVHD for prompt diagnosis; discussing the clinical safety and efficacy data of recently approved and invest... |
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Diagnosis and Management of Patients With Predominant Skin Symptoms
The educational design of this activity addresses the needs of allergy/clinical immunology, gastroenterology, dermatology, and hematology clinicians who manage patients with nonadvanced systemic mastocytosis.
Nonadvanced systemic mastocytosis (SM) is a group of rare disorders characterized by mast cell accumulation that results in a significant and varied symptomatic burden to the patient. The most prevalent of these symptoms include gastrointestinal symptoms, dermatological symptoms, and ... |
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Gastroenterology 2024 - LIVE STREAMING
The Comprehensive 2024 Gastroenterology Update
This highly rated Harvard Medical School CME program ensures participants are current with state-of-the-art GI strategies and clinical practices. It covers recent advances and their impact on clinical approaches and on patient outcomes. Updates, best practices, and new guidelines are presented by nationally recognized GI experts and master clinicians.
Practical, Results-Driven Education
Highlights of the 2024 program include:
• Updated... |
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Internal Medicine Comprehensive Review and Update 2024 - LIVE STREAMING
Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Updates for Internal Medicine and Its Subspecialties
This program, the 64th annual Internal Medicine Update from the leading clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, provides comprehensive, high-yield instruction to ensure clinicians are current with the latest evidence and best practices to optimize patient care.
This program covers the breadth of Internal Medicine subspecialties, including:
• Cardiovascular Medicine
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Treating Obesity 2024: The Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine - LIVE STREAMING
Education to Optimize Your Care of Adult, Adolescent, and Pediatric Patients with Obesity
This highly rated Harvard Medical School CME course delivers practical strategies to optimize the management of obesity and its many complications, and provides the most up-to-date approaches to obesity prevention and treatment.
Highlights of the 2024 program include:
• Update on using the newer GLP-1 based therapies
• Comprehensive evaluation of the patient with obesity
• Emerging precision me... |
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Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change - LIVE STREAMING
State-of-the-Art Approaches to Help Patients Initiate and Sustain Health-Promoting Behaviors
Lifestyle Medicine will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.
Overview
This immersive two-day course offers state-of-the-art strategies to guide patients to healthier lives. Education includes evidence-based strategies, tools and techniques to effect healthier changes in patients (and ourselves), including weight loss, exerci... |
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Call to Action for Health Equity: Racial Disparities in the Care of Patients with Cardiometabolic Disease
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for adults in the US. However, patients from minority populations with cardiovascular disease have disproportionately poor health outcomes and are particularly vulnerable to health disparities. Racial inequities in health also result in higher risk-burden in minority groups for metabolic syndromes such as Type 2 (adult-onset) diabetes, which increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Health disparities in cardiometabolic care predominantly... |
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Making the Call in Nonadvanced Systemic Mastocytosis Optimizing Multidisciplinary Management
Series Overview
Nonadvanced systemic mastocytosis (SM) is a group of rare disorders characterized by mast cell accumulation that results in a significant and varied symptomatic burden to the patient. The most prevalent of these symptoms include gastrointestinal symptoms, dermatological symptoms, and recurrent anaphylaxis in response to a variety of triggers such as food, insect venom, and medications. In this Phone-a-Friend series, a multidisciplinary panel of faculty experts will address the... |
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Assessment of Asthma Control
Although asthma treatments are widely available, between one-third and one-half of patients continue to have symptoms that regularly interfere with everyday life. These asthma-related symptoms and exacerbations result in almost 2 million emergency department visits each year, which often lead to inpatient hospital stays. Thus, there is a clear need for ongoing education about asthma management, particularly when there are significant changes in treatment recommendations or therapeutic options.... |
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Intensive Review of Internal Medicine - IN PERSON or LIVE STREAMING
The Acclaimed Clinical Update and Board Review
With more than 150 lectures, case discussions, and board preparation sessions, this CME program is one of the most comprehensive reviews of internal medicine offered by the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School.
It offers accelerated learning:
- For clinicians seeking a practical and comprehensive review that ensures you are up to date across all major fields of internal medicine:
• Newer options for diagnosis: what to choose, w... |
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Diabetes Comorbidities and Complications - LIVE STREAMING
This comprehensive course, which is among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses, provides education and updates to optimize your care of patients with diabetes and these conditions:
• Obesity
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Heart Failure
• Coronary Artery Disease
• Cerebrovascular Disease
• Hypertension
• Hyperglycemia
• Hypoglycemia
• Dyslipidemia
• Metabolic-Associated Fatty Liver Disease
• Chronic Kidney Disease
Sessions are led by experts in thes... |
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Rescue Therapies for Asthma
Although asthma treatments are widely available, between one-third and one-half of patients continue to have symptoms that regularly interfere with everyday life. These asthma-related symptoms and exacerbations result in almost 2 million emergency department visits each year, which often lead to inpatient hospital stays. Thus, there is a clear need for ongoing education about asthma management, particularly when there are significant changes in treatment recommendations or therapeutic options.... |
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Intensive Review of Nephrology - LIVE STREAMING
With over 70 interactive lectures, case discussions, board preparation sessions, and supplementary lectures, this CME program provides a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art nephrology practices offered by the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School.
It offers accelerated learning for:
- Clinicians seeking a practical and comprehensive review that ensures they are up to date across all major areas of nephrology:
• The latest options for diagnosis: what to choose, when, and wh... |
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Clinical Updates in Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease and Applications for Academic and Community Practice
Target Audience
The target audience for this activity are hematologists, oncologists, immunologists, and bone-marrow transplant specialists.
Program Overview
Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGvHD) is a common, multi-symptom complication of allogeneic transplantation that severely affects patient well-being. While the medical systems and resources differ between academic and community healthcare settings, clinicians practicing in both environments would benefit from education about rece... |
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Managing Opioid Misuse Disorder in Pregnancy and Neonatal Care
This course familiarizes physicians with evaluation and treatment of patients who present with maternal opioid use during and after pregnancy.
Outcome Objectives:
As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:
- Identify the specific problems encountered by women using opioids during pregnancy
- Evaluate pregnant patients with a history of maternal opioid use
- Differentiate between maintenance options for opioid treatment during pregnancy
- Assess... |
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PARP Inhibition as Ovarian Cancer Maintenance Therapy: Improving Patient Outcomes as a Multidisciplinary Team
Ovarian cancer (OC) is often diagnosed at an advanced stage and has generally poor survival rates¬"even after aggressive surgical management and chemotherapy. Without maintenance therapy, approximately 70% of patients relapse within 3 years of treatment. Recent clinical trials of polyadenosine diphosphate-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors have demonstrated substantial efficacy as maintenance therapy for OC patients. Additionally, clinical evidence suggests that daily monitoring of pati... |
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Update in Clinical Cardiology - LIVE STREAMING or IN PERSON
The Comprehensive Clinical Cardiology Update
Evaluation • Treatment • Patient Care • Procedures • Challenging Cases
Update in Clinical Cardiology will be held on October 16 " 18, 2024. You have the option to attend either online as the course is live streamed or in person in Boston, MA.
OVERVIEW
This course provides comprehensive updates for state-of-the-art care and guidance to incorporate them into daily practice to optimize patient outcomes.
Coverage includes:
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Neurological Emergencies - LIVE STREAMING
Evaluation. Detection. Diagnosis. Management.
In Emergency, Outpatient, and Inpatient Settings
Neurological Emergencies will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.
OVERVIEW
This special program provides new strategies, updates, best practices, and practical tips for:
• The WORKUP of common neurological complaints and high-risk conditions
• RAPID DETECTION of a neurological emergency and EARLY ACTIONS to opt... |
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Answering The Call in Nonadvanced Systemic Mastocytosis
Target Audience
The design of this activity addresses the needs of clinical immunologists/allergists, dermatologists, gastroenterologists, hematologists, and other specialist clinicians who diagnose or manage nonadvanced systemic mastocytosis (SM).
Program Overview
Nonadvanced SM is a challenging disorder to diagnose and manage due to the heterogeneity of symptoms, anaphylactic triggers, and complicated therapeutic paradigm. In this unique and engaging Call-a-Colleague program, a panel of... |
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Current and Emerging Therapies for Follicular Lymphoma: Solving Practice Challenges in Community-Based Interprofessional Care Teams
An indolent subtype of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, follicular lymphoma is characterized by eventual relapse of disease and the need for multiple lines of therapy, adding to the significant disease burden experienced by patients. Novel targeted agents in the relapsed/refractory setting have afforded new treatment options, but important clinical challenges exist, including optimal treatment sequencing, therapy evaluation and patient selection, transitions of care requirements, as well as toxicity mana... |
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Clinical Questions in Cardiology: Using Glucagon-like Peptite-1 Receptor Agonists
The glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1RA) class of medications has become an important option for treating patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D). Cardiovascular outcome trials also show that selected GLP-1RAs exert beneficial cardiovascular benefits in patients with and without T2D. In this activity, case studies commonly encountered in cardiology practice are utilized to prompt reflection on opportunities for reducing cardiovascular risk. Drawing on seminal research and th... |
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The latest insights into rare blood disorders: Diagnosis and treatment strategies
Because immune-mediated rare blood disorders are uncommon, healthcare providers often lack the knowledge and experience necessary to identify, diagnose, and treat them in accordance with best practices. As a result, there are significant gaps in care, including delays in diagnosis and suboptimal treatment. To ensure that more patients with these rare disorders are offered quality, evidence-based care, it is essential that healthcare providers possess up-to-date information about best practices... |
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Addressing Key Questions About BCMA-Targeted Therapy for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
Though treatment advances have improved outcomes for most patients, MM remains an incurable disease characterized by continuous relapse. However, the treatment landscape for relapsed/refractory MM (RRMM) has expanded in recent years, and patients who relapse and/or become refractory to initial therapies are benefiting from the increasing availability of a diverse range of novel agents, including B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)"targeted immunotherapies. These agents ... |
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Is It Atrial Fibrillation? Navigating Uncertainties on When and Whom to Screen in the Primary Care Setting
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is often asymptomatic making it difficult to detect and diagnose. Unfortunately, for many patients, a diagnosis of AF only follows a hospitalization for an acute event. Both targeted screening and opportunistic screening in the primary care setting can increase the rate of detection of new cases of AF, but are you current with the latest evidence? If you're a puzzle enthusiast, dive into this unique educational experience with CrossMED™! This engaging activity c... |
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Overcoming Challenges to Recognizing, Diagnosing, and Managing Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy
Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), once considered rare, is more prevalent than previously thought. Diagnosing this condition can be a challenge, as early symptoms may be nonspecific and attributable to aging, whereas later more severe symptoms can be mistaken for other cardiovascular conditions such as heart failure or may be confused with other causes of amyloidosis. This can be particularly problematic, as it can delay appropriate treatment.
Advances in noninvasive methods f... |
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WEBINAR: MEN AND COVID SEVERITY - New Research that Links Them ... What Are the Implications?
Pharmacists/Technicians will have a better understanding of why men suffered more severely from COVID-19 than women, and what that can mean in other acute, viral conditions. Pharmacists will be better equipped to discuss the relative health risks/benefits of testosterone in cardiovascular disease and prostate cancer. Thus, the pharmacist/technician will be able to engage with and educate both physicians and patients on the information discussed regarding testosterone.
The American College... |
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Really Bizarre Sexual Behaviors
The range of extant human behavior is truly extraordinary. But, the range of sexual behaviors is exponentially more so. Some are so infrequent and atypical that we call them “bizarre.” Such sexual practices may be described by some laypersons as “sick” or “abnormal.” Even some health care professionals may label such behaviors as “paraphilic” or “psychopathological” or a major behavior or personality disorder or as simply symptomatic of very serious emotional disturbances.
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Mindfulness: The Healing Power of Compassionate Presence
Mindfulness: The Healing Power of Compassionate Presence is a 6-hour online continuing education (CE) course that will give you the mindfulness skills necessary to work directly, effectively, and courageously with your own and your clients' struggles.
Compassion towards others starts with compassion towards self. Practicing mindfulness cultivates our ability to pay intentional attention to our experience from moment to moment. Mindfulness teaches us to become patiently and spaciously aware ... |
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Nurturing the Child with Special Needs
Nurturing the Child with Special Needs is a 4-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that provides strategies for healthcare professionals and parents to support children with special needs to manage behavior, sensory issues, and language challenges.
All children need to feel a sense of belonging and significant in ways that elicit positive responses from those around them. Sometimes, a child with special needs can alienate others when attempting to have their unique requirements ... |
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Cultural & Behavioral Health Disparities Amid COVID-19
Cultural & Behavioral Health Disparities Amid COVID-19 is a 4-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that examines COVID-19 and other mental and behavioral health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations.
We address social determinants of health and their influence on mental and behavioral health outcomes for COVID-19. Research findings are presented to assist with the knowledge component of racial and ethnocultural responsiveness.
We examine the mental and beha... |
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Ethics for Occupational Therapists
Ethics for Occupational Therapists is a text-based, 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that teaches OTs how to address ethical and moral dilemmas in practice.
Ethical and moral issues pervade our lives and healthcare professionals are constantly confronted with a variety of ethical and moral dilemmas. Decisions can have long-range effects professionally and personally, not only for the healthcare professional, but for patients, clients, healthcare entities, and society. Why ... |
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Ageism: Combatting Stereotypes
Ageism: Combatting Stereotypes is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE) course designed to heighten awareness of ageism and how it impacts patient care.
Ageism is the act of having prejudice toward, stereotyping, and/or discriminating against people simply because they are perceived or defined as “old” (R. N. Butler, 1969). Typically, ageism includes the tendency to regard older persons as debilitated, unworthy of attention, or unsuitable for employment or other meaningful activity.... |
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