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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?
Physicians with deficient communication skills may incur complaints by patients and colleagues, which puts them at risk for being reported to the Texas Medical Board and receiving legal sanctions. Physicians with sound communication skills improve patient and family satisfaction, strengthen the patient-physician relationship, and can reduce the stress experienced when dealing with end-of-life issues. This CME activity will help attendees improve their communication skills with patients and colleagues, thereby increasing patient and family satisfaction, strenghtening 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
Depression is one of the most common conditions among primary care patients; yet, physicians usually fail to to diagnose or treat 40-60 percent of cases. Physicians have access to easy ways to commit suicide and the knwledge to ensure completed suicide. Physician suicide has been associated with personal, professional and financial stresses. 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
Electronic Medical Record: The Link to a Better Future
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; Expires: April 30, 2010
Ethical and RegulatoryAspects 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
This 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
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
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 imporantce 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
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: July 2, 2009
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 address common illnesses in the aging physician and encourage them to become more aware of the professional, personl, and ethical considertions involved in planning for successful retirement. 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
Traditionally, physicians have focused on the disease model, but recent evidence suggests that disease may be a manifestation of an overall imbalance or unhappiness in an individual’s life. Research suggests that a physician and his or her patients have at least 40% personal control over their own happiness, which can be an answer to the stress of the changing practice of medicine. 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
Home Studies
Medical Records
This publication is a response to the most frequently asked questions regarding medical records including consent to treat minors, storage and destruction, privacy considerations and release, and charging for copies. 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. TMA has designated this course for 1.0 ethics and/or professional responsibility education. TMLT insured may earn a 3-percent risk management discount for each program completed, with a maximum discount of $1000 per program. Expires: Aug. 15, 2010
Non-Physician Practitioners, 2nd Edition
This up-to-date self self-study publication will guide you through hiring, supervising, and billing for the services of an NPP in your practice. It covers billing requirements for Medicare, Medicaid, and third-party payers; billing for E&M services; "incident-to" vs. independent billing; and much more, including delegation of prescriptive authority, proper documentation, establishing practice parameters, and liability. 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM; 3 credits in ethics/professional responsibility education; TMLT policy-holders may earn a 3-percent risk management discount for each program completed, with a maximum discount of $1000 per program.
Pain Management: A Handbook for Texas Physicians
This monograph, developed in collaboration with the Texas Pain Society, reviews the basic principles of pain medicine with a focus on pragmatic clinical approaches to optimal assessment and treatment of patients with a variety of conditions. The handbook also addresses barriers that Texas physicians face in assessing and treating patients suffering with chronic pain. 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits; 2 credits in ethics and/or professional responsibility education; Expires: May 1, 2009
Physician Health and Rehabilitation Home Studies
To order the following PHR home studies, call (800) 880-7955. All are monographs, 1 credit AMA PRA Cat. 1, or 2 credits AMA PRA Cat. 1.
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?
Physicians with deficient communication skills may incur complaints by patients and colleagues, which puts them at risk for being reported to the Texas Medical Board and receiving legal sanctions. Physicians with sound communication skills improve patient and family satisfaction, strengthen the patient-physician relationship, and can reduce the stress experienced when dealing with end-of-life issues. This CME activity will help attendees improve their communication skills with patients and colleagues, thereby increasing patient and family satisfaction, strenghtening 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
Depression is one of the most common conditions among primary care patients; yet, physicians usually fail to to diagnose or treat 40-60 percent of cases. Physicians have access to easy ways to commit suicide and the knwledge to ensure completed suicide. Physician suicide has been associated with personal, professional and financial stresses. 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
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
This 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
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: June 28, 2010
Joint Commission Standard Regarding Licensed Independent Practitioner Health
The course will educate participants about how to comply with JCAHO standard requirement that medical staffs implement as 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 imporantce 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
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 address common illnesses in the aging physician and encourage them to become more aware of the professional, personl, and ethical considertions involved in planning for successful retirement. 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
Traditionally, physicians have focused on the disease model, but recent evidence suggests that disease may be a manifestation of an overall imbalance or unhappiness in an individual’s life. Research suggests that a physician and his or her patients have at least 40% personal control over their own happiness, which can be an answer to the stress of the changing practice of medicine. 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
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