Earn CME Credit While Improving Patient Care
TMA e-Resources allows you to earn continuing medical education credit for improving patient care. Simply identify a clinical or health business question, search evidence-based databases available through TMA, and describe the applicable findings on the online evaluation form. Learn more
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The Texas Medical Association recognizes that use of the Internet is an effective way to deliver CME for busy physicians. TMA offers online education to keep you up-to-date and help you meet the CME requirements of your medical specialty or licensing agency.
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TMA Online CME
2010 Risk Management Webinar Series New
TMA’s 2010 Risk Management webinar series gives you and your staff a way to stay up to date on important topics that affect your practice’s liability risk without ever having to leave the office. Each program is 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM (1 Ethics Credit); Register for at least three programs and receive a TMLT discount or register for all six and receive two discounts!
Breast Cancer Screening: CME Performance Improvement Activity
Implement changes in your practice based on best evidence to promote breast health. Improve screening rates in your practice. Demonstrate an easy, efficient way to incorporate prevention into primary care that might translate into other cancer screening initiatives. A maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; Expires: July 20, 2010
Cocooning: Targeted Immunization to Prevent Severe and Fatal Pertussis in Infants New
This course has been created for physicians interested in learning about the cocooning strategy in preventing pertussis in newborns. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; Expires March 1, 2013
Communication Skills: Why Bother?
This CME activity will help attendees improve thier communication skills with patients and colleagues, thereby increasing patient and family satisfaction, strengthening the patient-physician relationship, reducing stress, and improving patient outcomes. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; 1 hour ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: June 4, 2012
Coping with Stress in the Practice of Medicine
This course will educate participants about how to effectively cope with many of the stresses encountered in the practice of medicine. The course will offer self-assessment tools, prevention strategies, treatment options, and solutions. 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 2 hours ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: May 20, 2012
Depression and Suicide in Physicians
This course will examine the number of physicians lost to suicide annually, describe the characteristics of major depression, identify risks for physician suicide, explain the warning signs of a suicidal physician, and summarize the ethical consequences of the effect of physician suicide to patients. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; 1 hour ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: June 3, 2012
Effective Strategies for Tobacco Cessation
This course discusses ethical responsibilities of physicians to determine tobacco use at every clinical visit. Patient stages of change and physician strategies for smoking cessation are discussed. Commonly used pharmacotherapies and brief tobacco cessation counseling are reviewed. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM, TMA has designated this course for 1.0 ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires June 4, 2013
Electronic Medical Record: The Link to a Better Future, 2nd Edition
This course takes a nontechnical view of the subject to help you successfully select and adopt an electronic medical record system, with an emphasis on the needs of smaller practices. 3 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 3-percent reduction on TMLT professional liability premiums (not to exceed $1,000); 3 hours ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expiration: Sept. 30, 2012
EMTALA: Emergency Room Legal and Ethical Duties of Physicians New
This online course addresses the basic ethical and legal tenets regarding patient transfer issues and EMTALA. Through a combination of legal sources and ethics opinions, physicians are given an overview of both state and federal patient transfer laws. Additionally, physician participants will gain insight regarding the most common on-call questions and myths. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 1 hour ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: Dec. 1, 2012
Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Managing Patients With Pain
This educational program presents regulatory and ethical aspects of managing patients with pain. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; 1 hour ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: May 20, 2012
Ethical Aspects of Monitoring Physicians in Recovery
Discusses ethical and professional responsibilities of monitoring physicians in recovery so as to provide responsible advocacy for the monitored physician and protect patient safety. Identify potential ethical dilemmas that might arise for physicians who monitor other physicians. Assesses the professional responsibility of entities that oversee physician health. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM, TMA has designated this course for 1.0 ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: June 4, 2013
Ethical Considerations in Physician Aging and Retirement
The course will educate participants about how to recognize signs and address common illnesses in the aging physician and encourage them to become more aware of the professional, personal, and ethical considerations involved in planning for successful retirement. 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 2 hours ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: May 23, 2011
EMR: Evaluation, Selection, and Legal Considerations
Three videos address some of the common issues involved in implementing an Electronic Medical Record. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM per video; 3-percent TMLT discount (not to exceed $1,000) if all 3 videos are completed and CME is obtained; Expires: Dec. 31, 2010
How to Create and Maintain Life Balance
Discusses the importance of actively initiating and maintaining balance in one's life. Reviews the importance of identifying personal core values congruent with prioritizing life activities. Provides action steps that may lead to improved patient care and a more balanced life. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM, TMA has designated this course for 1.0 ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: June 4, 2013
Internet Point of Care: Earn free CME Credit by Searching TMA's Online Databases
TMA e-resources allow you to earn continuing medical education (CME) credit for improving patient care. Simply identify a clinical or health business question, search evidence-based databases available through TMA, and describe the applicable findings on an online evaluation form. .5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM
Maintenance of Professional Boundaries and Effective Management of Challenging Patient Encounters
The course will educate participants about the importance of maintaining professional boundaries while working with a wide variety of challenging patient encounters. 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 2 hours ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: June 4, 2011
Ovarian Cancer: Designed for the Primary Care Physician
This module has been created for primary care physicians for the purpose of enhancing the knowledge of ovarian cancer with a particular emphasis on prevention strategies, early diagnosis, treatment options, and management. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 1 hour of medical ethics and/or professional responsibility education; Expires: April 25, 2011
Pain Primer for Primary Physicians: Essential Concepts
This module is designed for primary care physicians and physician assistants for the purpose of enhancing the knowledge of the essential concepts of pain with a particular focus on identifying types of pain, outlining a systematic approach to assessment and evaluation, medications, therapy, physical and procedural interventions and more. 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 1.5 hours of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: July 1, 2011
Patient Safety and Peer Assistance
The course includes information relative to the relationship between patient safety and peer assistance, how a peer assistance committee should function to be effective and maintain credibility, and the importance of following a standardized process when referrals are received to address and uphold ethical and professional responsibilities. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; 1 hour ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: May 26, 2013
Physician Ethics and Enforcement of Commercial and Government Program Fraud Laws New
This online course addresses the basic ethical and legal tenets regarding health care "fraud and abuse." Through a combination of legal sources and ethics opinions, physicians are given an overview of both state and federal enforcement of laws that can impact the medical practice. Participating physicians will also be informed as to helpful strategies in responding to complaints at the Texas Medical Board. 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 2 hours ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: Dec. 1, 2012
Psychiatric Illness and Disruptive Behavior in Physicians
The course will educate participants about how to recognize signs and symptoms of psychiatric illnesses and identify patterns of disruptive behavior in physicians. An intervention process for approaching colleagues identified as exhibiting behavioral or emotional problems will be described. 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 2 hours ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: May 23, 2011
Spirituality and Medicine
Assesses the role of spirituality in physicians personal lives and the lives of their patients. Reviews how to integrate spirituality and clinical practice to enhance patient satisfaction. Discusses the principles of ethically managing spirituality in a medical practice. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM, TMA has designated this course for 1.0 ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: June 3, 2013
Substance Use Disorders in Physicians: Identification and Intervention
Discusses the disease aspects of Substance Use Disorders. Reviews essential components of conducting an intervention and steps necessary to prepare intervention team members. Explains ethical considerations involved in mandatory reporting and patient safety. 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM, TMA has designated this course for 2.0 ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: May 25, 2013
The Art and Science of Happiness
This activity will give physicians the tools to help patients and themselves understand the concepts of happiness and how best to achieve it. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 1 hour ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires June 15, 2012
The Family in Addiction and Recovery
The module will educate participants about addiction as a family illness and how each member, including the impaired individual, impacts the health and well-being of the family. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; 1 hour ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: June 2, 2012
Tobacco Intervention and the Health Care Provider
This self study module is designed for primary care physicians and physician assistants. It is intended to provide professional education about the importance of talking about tobacco cessation to patients. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; 1 hour of medical ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: July 12, 2012
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Last Published: 7/12/2010
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