ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity

Foundations of Financial Accounting

Register for Foundations of Financial Accounting, and explore the language of accounting. The course offers insights on how to record business activities and interpret financial statements. Physician leaders who enroll can gain an understanding as to why financial accounting is…

Derail Depression: Treatment on Track

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is difficult to diagnose, and often undertreated at LGH. In addition, scales that measure depression (ie, PHQ-9) are a not being used consistently. Derail Depression Treatment on Track is a multiplatform quality improvement program designed to:…

Radiology Diagnoses: The Effects of Cognitive and Systems Factors

As specialists who are closely involved in the process of diagnosing patients’ conditions (often serious ones), radiologists have a comparatively high malpractice liability risk, and the top allegation in claims against them is that they have made an error in…

Prescribing Controlled Substances

According to the CDC, drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of injury deaths in the US, and this death rate more than doubled from 1999 to 2013. Abused drugs included opioid pain killers, stimulants, -and -depressants, and the majority…

Ischemic Stroke: Risk Issues for the Emergency Physician

While professional society guidelines differ in their grading of the recommendation to administer intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (IV tPA) for treatment of ischemic stroke, there is evidence that giving tPA within established parameters can improve some patients’ outcomes. Patients with…

Antibiotic Stewardship Strategies for Adult Outpatient Care

Studies of antibiotics provided to US children found that over half of all antibiotic prescriptions in the outpatient setting are given for infections that are likely viral rather than bacterial. In such situations, the medication prescribed has no therapeutic benefit…

Online Interactive High Value Care Cases – High Value Quality Improvement

Practice high value care by reviewing ACP’s online collection of clinical cases, answering the associated knowledge checks, and reading through the critiques. ACP’s five module program offers highly practical guidance and curated resources to help you incorporate effective HVC principles…

Online Interactive High Value Care Cases – High Value Hospitalization

Learn how to eliminate unnecessary health care costs and improve patient outcomes. These on-line, interactive high value care (HVC) cases can be completed in 30 to 60 minutes on your dekstop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Review the medical cases online,…