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Available Courses:
Advising Patients on Advance Directives
Stepping up to Insulin in Type 2 Diabetes
Physician Counseling to Enhance Adherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines
Reducing Medical Errors
Heart Failure
Preventive Cardiology

A New Approach to CME

We have developed a new approach to CME for primary care physicians using distance education that stresses online interaction among participants and course faculty and immediate practice change.

NOTICE: CME TiPS will not be awarding Continuing Medical Education Credit after December 31, 2009. Courses must be finished before this date in order to receive CME Credit.


Course Title Learn more about each course by clicking a course title, below.	Boston University School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of:*	Additional Available CME			TOTAL CME Credit Hours You Could Earn
		Risk Management	Card Study Activity**	Peformance Improvement Activity***	TOTAL CME Credit Hours You Could Earn
Advising Patients on Advance Directives	2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™	-			2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Stepping up to Insulin in Type 2 Diabetes	10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™	-	Maximum of 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™	Maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ Also satisfies MC-FP Part IV Requirments	35 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Physician Counseling to Enhance Adherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines	10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™	This program includes 10 hours which meet the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for risk management study.	Maximum of 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™	Maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™	45 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Reducing Medical Errors	15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™	This program includes 15 hours which meet the criteria of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for risk management study.	---	---	30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Heart Failure	10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™	-	-	-	10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Preventive Cardiology	5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™	--	--	--	5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Improve Your Practice

Our unique CME course is designed to help you improve your daily practice, starting immediately. These courses use modular design to help you to:

Advance Directives Course: Learn about the legal ramifications of the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1991 and how to complete advance directives in the outpatient office setting. Available Soon. >> Learn More

Diabetes Course: Learn how to select, start, and adjust insulin (plus review oral medications). Available Now. >> Learn More

Motivational Interviewing Course: Learn how to improve your communication to help patients choose, and undergo, the method of colon cancer screening most appropriate for them. Available Now.
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Errors Course: Reduce your potential for medical errors related to office systems. Available Now.
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Heart Failure Course: This update will review recent management advances in the diagnosis and care of patients with congestive heart failure. The course will provide opportunities to immediately apply your learning to case patients online, and in your practice. Available Now.
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Preventive Cardiology Course: This course will provide you with an update on the management of depression in the pre and post MI patient, review the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation and provide specific referral recommendations for rehab, provide you with a succinct overview of the appropriate medications to prescribe following acute coronary syndromes, and give you practical tools to promote lifestyle change in your post MMI and ACS patients. Available Now.
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NEW Announcements

Diabetes Module Now Approved for ABFM Part IV Recertification Credit

Part IV and P4P: FAQ's (PDF - 88KB)

Award Winning Design

This course is based on our award winning CME design, which was voted Best Online CME Course by the eHealth Institute. This annual award is awarded in conjunction with the eHealth Developers' Summit to recognize and promote high quality eHealth application development.
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"Generally speaking, the course was the most usefully prepared CME activity I have ever seen." - Recent Participant

This project was made possible through a grant from the Physicians' Foundation for Health Systems Excellence and is supported in part by unrestricted educational grants from Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, The Olympus Medical Charitable Foundation, and Beckman Coulter. Copyright 2007-2009 Department of Family Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.

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