Online CME programs (Enduring material - Internet)

AMAprimarycare.org
The American Medical Association is pleased to present AMAprimarycare.org, an educational resource for primary care physicians designed to provide practical, certified educational programs to help physicians apply new knowledge and strategies to improve patient outcomes. AMAprimarycare.org delivers a variety of multimedia educational programs on type 2 diabetes, depression, and Parkinson's disease.

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.

Educating Physicians on Controversies and Challenges in Health: Health Care Disparities Among Racial-Ethnic Minority Patients
This program provides physicians with a broad overview of health disparities among racial-ethnic minority patients. In addition, this program provides physicians with strategies to enhance services for racial-ethnic minority patients, including building trust and addressing language barriers. Physicians will learn about the practice of racial and ethnic data collection to improve patient care. Furthermore, physicians will observe how to apply such disparity solution strategies to a specific medical condition, cardiovascular disease.

Ethical guidelines for gifts to physicians from industry
Learn about the AMA's initiative to raise awareness of ethical guidelines for gift-giving from industry to physicians.

Financing EHR/EMR systems: Should your practice accept a donation?
In August 2006, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) passed federal rules making it possible for hospitals, health systems and health plans to donate health information technology (HIT) to physician practices. Yet recent reports show that only four percent of physician practices have functional electronic health record (EHR/EMR) systems. The web conference will explore the ins and outs of donation agreements and the Stark law and Anti-Kickback Statute requirements—ultimately helping your practice decide if accepting a donation is the right move.

Group Practice Physicians Webinars
The Office of Group Practice Services presents quarterly 90 minute webinars focusing on practice management issues geared toward physicians and practice administrators in small to medium sized group practices. Topics vary for each webinar presentation.

Pain Management: the Online Series 
Pain is one of the most common reasons patients seek medical attention, and is a symptom that is encountered by every physician, crossing all medical specialties. According to American Pain Society estimates, 75 million people are partially or totally disabled by pain and 45 percent of all Americans seek care for persistent pain at some point in their lives.

Pharmacogenetics and Personalized Medicine
This course is an introduction to pharmacogenomics and the influence of a patient's genetic background on drug response. The course was developed by the AMA and the Food and Drug Administration, and is designed for physicians who have had little exposure to the topic in clinical practice or who want to better understand the current levels of pharmacogenomic information in prescription drug labeling.

Strategies to Improve Communications with Latino or Hispanic Patients  
This online CME program addresses strategies to improve communication with Hispanic or Latino patients. This program covers the skills—readily transferable to all patient interactions—needed to effectively communicate with a low-literate, Spanish-speaking population. These skills focus on clarity, cultural humility, and message confirmation, all of which are important to patient care.