CME printed monographs (Enduring material - other)

AMA Therapeutic Insights is a quarterly online CME activity designed to assist physicians in clinical practice by giving them unprecedented access to state and national prescribing patterns for self-assessment.

Health Literacy Monograph
This monograph offers new supporting research, explores how ineffective communication and low health literacy combine to affect patient safety, provides tools to decrease communication-related adverse events at a systemwide level, and helps physicians initiate changes toward a safer and shame-free practice environment.

Health Literacy Toolkit
This educational kit is the AMA Foundation's primary tool for informing physicians, health care professionals and patient advocates about health literacy.

Healthier Life Steps Program: Physician Guide
This program provides background information and tools to help physicians support their patients’ efforts to change four key health behaviors: diet, physical activity, alcohol consumption, and tobacco use.  The Physicians’ Guide describes the important role physicians play in fostering lifestyle change, and explains how physicians can implement strategies to assess patients’ readiness to change and how to counsel patients on making these changes.

Roadmaps for Clinical Practice series: Improving Adolescent Immunizations: A Primer for Physicians
Improving Adolescent Immunizations: A Primer for Physicians is designed to assist health care providers with the issues surrounding vaccinating adolescents.

The Obesity Epidemic: Strategies in Reducing Cardiometabolic Risk
The AMA recently sponsored an educational roundtable of experts in cardiology, epidemiology, preventive medicine, pharmacoeconomics, weight management, disease risk assessment, and risk modification to highlight issues in obesity and cardiometabolic risk and prevention.  This activity presents  recent advances and current opinions on the root metabolic causes of obesity, including the endocrinology of energy homeostasis, as well as the clinical impact of obesity, obesity prevention, treatments to reduce associated health risks, and the impact of obesity on healthcare insurance providers.

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