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
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
Chemical Dependence in Physicians: Identification and Intervention
The course is designed to educate participants about physician impairment, including the identification, intervention, and rehabilitation processes. 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 2 hours ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: May 15, 2010
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 Smoking Cessation
It is appropriate for continuing education of physicians and others interested in learning about how to help their patients quit smoking. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; Expires: May 15, 2010
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
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 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 Balance in Your Life
The course includes information germane to planning and making positive changes that will help create balance between the areas in one's life. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; 1 hour ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: July 31, 2010
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
Joint Commission Standard Regarding Licensed Independent Practitioner Health
The course will educate participants about how to comply with a Joint Commission requirement that medical staffs implement a process to identify and manage matters of individual physician health separately from the medical staff disciplinary function. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; 1 hour ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: May 23, 2011
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
Monitoring Physicians in Recovery
The course discusses ethical and professional responsibilities of monitoring physicians in recovery so as to provide responsible advocacy for the monitored physician and protect public safety. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; Expires: June 21, 2010
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 Medical Errors
The course is composed of six learning modules that cover key aspects of patient safety: medical errors, communications, evaluation and diagnosis, medications and treatment, procedures and supervision, and systems-based improvement and provider fatigue. 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 2 hours ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: Feb. 15, 2010
Peer Assistance Committee (How to Establish)
The course includes information relative to the nuts and bolts of establishing a peer assistance committee, how to select members, and how a committee should function to be effective and maintain credibility. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; 1 hour ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: May 15, 2010
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 in Medicine
The course includes information regarding ethical principles for integrating religion and spirituality into patient care and guidelines for inclusion of spirituality in medicine. 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM; 1 hour ethics and/or professional responsibility; Expires: June 21, 2010
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, TMA has designated this course for 1.0 ethics and/or professional responsibility education.
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 (PDF): Activity Evaluation Form
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 education; Expires: June 1, 2012
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Last Published: 10/15/2009
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