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Alzheimer's Disease
Harvard Medical School
Alzheimer's Disease (AD), the most common type of dementia, is one of the most feared and devastating conditions associated with old age. This course will provide an update of the rapidly accumulating knowledge of this field, highlighting what clinicians need to know about diagnosis, current standards of treatment, and the future of Alzheimer's care. Through a case study, course participants wil...
Specialties:
Alzheimers / Dementia
Disciplines:
Physician
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Assessing Medical Fitness to Return to Work
Harvard Medical School
Primary Care physicians are often requested to provide information on a patient's fitness to return to work following injury or illness. U.S. primary care physicians report that they are requested to provide opinions regarding work ability or "fitness for duty," on average, in up to 10% of all office visits. However, very little training is routinely offered in medical or postgraduate education ...
Specialties:
Preventive Care
Disciplines:
Physician
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Assessment and Treatment of Anxiety in the Primary Care Setting
Harvard Medical School
Anxiety disorders are frequently encountered in medical practice, often presenting in masked form as somatic complaints. This course describes the differential diagnosis of anxiety disorders, notes the common comorbid medical conditions and medications that can cause anxiety and highlights other psychiatric disorders that often coexist with anxiety disorders. The course describes in detail the k...
Specialties:
Andrology / Men's Health
Disciplines:
Physician
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Assessment and Treatment of Depression in the Primary Care Setting
Harvard Medical School
This course provides the non-psychiatric physician with an up to date approach to the assessment and treatment of major depression in the primary care office setting. The program defines the key features and sub-classificant of depressive disorders and relates the subclassification to concrete treatment planning and medication prescribing issues. A longitudinal perspective on longterm management...
Specialties:
Depression / Bipolar | Psychiatry / Mental Health
Disciplines:
Physician
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Chronic Hepatitis C: A Multifaceted Disease
Harvard Medical School
Chronic hepatitis C afflicts 170 million individuals worldwide and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. We discuss the various modes of acquisition of hepatitis C. Although cirrhosis and its attendant complications including primary hepatocellular cardinoma are the major causes of morbidity and mortality, patients with chronic hepatitis C may also exhibit protean extrahepatic manifestati...
Specialties:
Gastroenterology / GI | Pathology
Disciplines:
Informatics / Coding / Billing
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Clinical Challenges in the Diagnosis and Management of Anemia
Harvard Medical School
Anemia represents a common problem encountered in daily clinical practice world wide. Hence, a structured approach to evaluating anemia is highly relevant in primary care. Multi-channel automated analyzers have revolutionized the work of performing complete blood counts (CBCs). However, when interpreting results, clinicians must be aware of limitations encountered with these technologies, which ...
Specialties:
Hematology
Disciplines:
Physician
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Endocrine Emergencies
Harvard Medical School
The course will provide a series of multiple-choice question based cases in common and life-threatening endocrine system related clinical entities typically encountered in the Urgent Care or Emergency Department environment. The cases will feature multimedia content to engage the participant. Faculty for the course will primarily be drawn from Harvard Medical School (HMS) associated hospitals. T...
Specialties:
Endocrinology | Critical Care / Intensive Care
Disciplines:
Physician
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Ethical Legal and Social Issues: Brief Case Studies in Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
This course presents three brief patient scenarios that highlight ethical challenges presented by advances in genetic testing. While specific topics include an introduction to the Genetics Information and Nondiscrimination Act, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and the presympt...
Specialties:
Ethics | Law / Legal | Social Issues
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: ADPKD
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
This case study illustrates a common clinical scenario (i.e., renal cystic disease in a proband with an inconclusive family history) and many issues related to diagnosis and management of polycystic kidney disease.
Specialties:
Genetics
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Colon Cancer
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
The Colon Cancer Genetics course is designed to enhance the participants' knowledge of inherited colon cancer syndromes, particularly Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC, or Lynch Syndrome). The participant will be guided through how to identifying patients at a high...
Specialties:
Oncology / Cancer / Radiation Therapy | Oncology / Cancer / Radiation Therapy
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) is defined by the presence of either DCM or unexplained death (before the age of 30) in two or more closely related family members. The estimate of familial prevalence is influenced by the population which is studied and which methods are use...
Specialties:
Cardiology / Cardiovascular
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
The differential diagnosis of early coronary artery disease contains a number of genetic and environmental eitiologies. This course will review one important genetic condition which needs to be considered and ruled out when evaluating patients and families with histories of early...
Specialties:
Dyslipidemia / Cholesterol
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Hereditary Breast Cancer
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
In this course, a 36-year-old woman presents with concerns about her family history of cancer. Her cousin has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer at age 29. She wants to know if she should start to have mammograms and/or MRIs and if she should have genetic testing.
This...
Specialties:
Oncology / Cancer / Radiation Therapy | Genetics | Oncology / Cancer / Radiation Therapy | OB/GYN / Women's Health
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has an estimated prevalence of 1 in 500 adults and therefore represents a common genetic disease with significant morbidity and mortality. This CME will help the primary care provider recognize clues to the existence of this disease in their patients a...
Specialties:
Cardiology / Cardiovascular | Genetics
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Marfan Syndrome
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
This web-based course with provide participants with an up-to-date overview of Marfan syndrome in a case-based format. It will focus on the recognition and clinical management of individuals with Marfan syndrome and the differentiation with other overlapping conditions. The use o...
Specialties:
Genetics
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY)
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
Diabetes is a heterogeneous disease. While the practitioner can generally distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes on the basis of clinical features, there are rarer forms of the disease which do not follow this simple categorization. Among them are the monogenic forms of d...
Specialties:
Diabetes
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY)
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
Diabetes is a heterogeneous disease. While the practitioner can generally distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes on the basis of clinical features, there are rarer forms of the disease which do not follow this simple categorization. Among them are the monogenic forms of d...
Specialties:
Diabetes | Geriatrics / LTC
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
This case follows a 20-month-old girl with febrile and afebrile seizures. Her clinical presentation and diagnostic workup is most consistent with Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI), also known as Dravet syndrome. The most common cause of SMEI is mutation in the SCN1A gen...
Specialties:
Pediatrics
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Neurofibromatosis
Harvard Medical School
A 34-year-old woman is suspected of having neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) after her physician finds skin fold freckling and suspects cutaneous neurofibromas on a routine physical exam. Based on the family history, she appears to be the first individual in her family with NF1 (not surprising since half of all cases of NF1 are the result of new mutations). She is, however, considering starting a family...
Specialties:
Genetics
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Noonan Syndrome
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
It is estimated that as many as 1/1000 individuals are affected with Noonan syndrome, which has a highly variable presentation even within the same family. It is not uncommon for a mildly affected parent not to be diagnosed until adulthood when they have a more severely affe...
Specialties:
Genetics
Disciplines:
Physician
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Genetics: Prader-Willi Syndrome
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
This course discusses a syndromic cause of morbid obesity and cognitive impairment, Prader Willi Syndrome. Participants will learn about the clinical features of Prader Willi Syndrome, for whom this diagnosis should be considered, and what diagnostic laboratory testing is indicat...
Specialties:
Genetics
Disciplines:
Physician
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Geriatrics: Pain Management Strategies in the Elderly Inpatient
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This module is supported by a grant from the Donald Reynolds Foundation.
The management of pain in hospitalized elderly patients represents a clinical challenge for many clinicians and most trainees. Appropriate analgesic choice and dosing require knowledge of the unique characteristics of older patients that affect their response to medications and susceptibility to its side...
Specialties:
Geriatrics / LTC | Pain Management
Disciplines:
Physician
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Geriatrics: Skin and Chronic Wound Care in Older Adults
Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This module is supported by a grant from the Donald Reynolds Foundation.
Skin and chronic wound problems are common clinical challenges for physicians and trainees who provide care for older patients. Appropriate assessment and wound care management decisions require focused, specific knowledge of the unique characteristics of older patients' skin and predisposition to chroni...
Specialties:
Dermatology | Geriatrics / LTC | Wound Care
Disciplines:
Physician
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Lifestyle Medicine: Nutrition and the Metabolic Syndrome
Harvard Medical School
This course reviews the case of a 54-year-old gentleman who has full Metabolic Syndrome (i.e., impaired fasting glucose, pre-hypertension, low HDL, high triglycerides, and abdominal obesity). At his first visit to you this patient, who is new to town, will voice concern about his elevated blood glucose as well as his poor eating behavior and pattern.
Through the course of seven questions, you...
Specialties:
Nutrition / Dietary
Disciplines:
Physician
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Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change
Harvard Medical School
Course Description
According to the World Health Organization, by 2020, two-thirds of all disease worldwide will be the result of lifestyle choices. Currently, the leading causes of death in the United States are lifestyle related: poor diet, lack of exercise, obesity, tobacco use, and overconsumption of alcohol. This course is designed to change your competence and performance-in-practice by i...
Specialties:
Behavioral Medicine | Cardiology / Cardiovascular | Counseling | Depression / Bipolar | Diabetes | Endocrinology | Family Medicine | Internal Medicine | Pain Management | Psychiatry / Mental Health
Disciplines:
Athletic Trainer | Counselor | Nurse Practitioner | Nursing | Occupational Therapy | Physical Therapy | Physician | Physician Assistant | Psychology | Social Work | Speech Therapy / Pathology
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Mental Health Sequelae of Extreme Violence
Harvard Medical School
The world today has become a very violent place. More than 50 countries and over 1 billion people today have been affected by mass violence. America has been attacked by terrorists and is facing future attacks. The mental health impact of this violence can be high. Studies have shown that in times of distress, most citizens will seek out family members, clergy, and their primary health care prov...
Specialties:
Psychiatry / Mental Health
Disciplines:
Physician
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Sudden Cardiac Death: A Focus on the ACLS Guidelines
Harvard Medical School
The course will provide a series of multiple-choice question based cases in common and life-threatening clinical entities typically encountered in the Urgent Care or Emergency Department environment. The cases will feature multimedia content to engage the participant. Faculty for the course will primarily be drawn from Harvard Medical School (HMS) associated hospitals. The core faculty will...
Specialties:
Cardiology / Cardiovascular
Disciplines:
Physician
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Sudden Cardiac Death: A Focus on the ACLS Guidelines
Harvard Medical School
The course will provide a series of multiple-choice question based cases in common and life-threatening clinical entities typically encountered in the Urgent Care or Emergency Department environment. The cases will feature multimedia content to engage the participant. Faculty for the course will primarily be drawn from Harvard Medical School (HMS) associated hospitals. The core faculty will...
Specialties:
Cardiology / Cardiovascular
Disciplines:
Physician
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Thyroid Nodule
Harvard Medical School
Participants will understand effective assessment of malignant vs. benign thyroid nodules by learning the adequate work-up and treatment. Three representative patients with thyroid nodules are discussed, in the context of euthyroidism, hyperthyroidism, and hypothyroidism. Participants will learn when a thyroid scan or fine needle aspiration of a thyroid nodule are recommended and how to interpre...
Specialties:
Endocrinology
Disciplines:
Physician
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Venous Thrombosis
Harvard Medical School
The most common presentations of venous thromboembolism (VTE) are deep vein thrombosis (DVT) of the lower extremity and pulmonary embolism. A risk factor for VTE, either hereditary or acquired, can now be identified in approximately 80 percent of patients. Furthermore, there is often more than one factor at play in a given patient. As an example, 50 percent of thrombotic events in patients with ...
Specialties:
Anticoagulation / Thrombosis
Disciplines:
Physician
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