Posted on May 13th, 2022 by Bill Sivarais
Engaging patients in their own care has significant benefits—it increases their adherence to healthcare recommendations, helps them deal more calmly with medical uncertainties, often improves their care outcomes, and it reduces your risk of sustaining malpractice claims. This education activity…
Posted on March 16th, 2022 by Academic Programs
Although deaths from prostate cancer have dropped substantially in recent decades among all men, Black/African American men are twice as likely as White men to die of prostate cancer and continue to have the highest prostate cancer mortality among all…
Posted on March 16th, 2022 by Academic Programs
The US EPA estimates that 21,000 radon-related deaths occur annually in the United States. In Massachusetts, radon, a colorless, odorless, tasteless and radioactive gas, is the second leading cause of lung cancer. It is important to understand that health risks…
Posted on February 11th, 2022 by Bill Sivarais
The curriculum includes over 50 hours of training including, two-weekend intensive trainings (24-28 CME hours), live webinars on the second Monday and third Monday (21 CME hours), one hour per month of mentoring sessions with a TNT faculty member/mentor (11…
Posted on January 21st, 2022 by Bill Sivarais
Welcome to The ASAM Criteria interactive hybrid asynchronous Online Course designed to help beginner, intermediate, and advanced counselors, social workers, administrators, and other clinical staff develop patient-centered service plans and make objective decisions about patient admission, continuing care, and transfer/discharge…
Posted on January 21st, 2022 by Bill Sivarais
The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course provides eight hours of required education to qualify for the waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in an office-based setting and covers essential information for providers to identify, assess, diagnose, and manage patients with…
Posted on January 21st, 2022 by Bill Sivarais
Applying Choosing Wisely® Recommendations is an online education series consisting of three courses that include virtual patients and complementary resources. The goal of the course series is to support physicians in their application of specific Choosing Wisely® recommendations. The recommendations…
Posted on December 10th, 2021 by Bill Sivarais
The act of sorting patients according to the urgency of their need for care, known as triage, is not limited to the ED. There are no formal EFM triage recommendations or clinical guidelines from ACOG, SMFM, or AWHONN regarding this…
Posted on December 10th, 2021 by Bill Sivarais
The act of sorting patients according to the urgency of their need for care, known as triage, is not limited to the ED. There are no formal EFM triage recommendations or clinical guidelines from ACOG, SMFM, or AWHONN regarding this…
Posted on December 10th, 2021 by Bill Sivarais
The second stage of labor creates the greatest physiologic challenge to both mother and fetus. Oxygen delivery is reduced while oxygen consumption increases during this phase of labor. Certain interventions may help or hinder oxygenation. Using closed-glottis (Valsalva technique), coach-assisted…