Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
A Clinician's Guide to Sexual Assault
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$50.00
Child Abuse Identification and Reporting: The Pennsylvania Requirement
  • State Mandated Training
  • Mandated Reporter
  • 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.00 ANCC
  • 3.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
$21.00
In 2020, there were 4,593 substantiated reports to child abuse in Pennsylvania. Healthcare professionals, regardless of their discipline or field, are in a unique position to assist in the identification, education, and prevention of child abuse and neglect. This course describes how victims of abuse can be accurately identified and provides the community resources available in the state of Pennsylvania for child abuse victims. Mandated reporter laws will also be outlined.
Cultural Competency: Providing Meaningful Care to a Diverse Patient Population
  • Cultural Competency
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
We all possess innate biases that may cause us to treat patients differently without us even being aware of it. At the end of this course, you should be able to take a second look at instances in your patient interactions that might cause misunderstandings. It is important to be able to identify ways that we can, within ourselves, our hospitals and our healthcare systems, reduce disparities in healthcare.
Cultural Competence: An Overview
  • Cultural Competency
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 ANCC
  • 2.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
$15.00
Culture serves as a lens through which patients and practitioners filter their experiences and perceptions. Patients will bring their unique life stories and concerns to the practitioner, and their cultural values and belief systems will inevitably shape how the problem is defined and their beliefs about what is effective in solving the problem.
Frontotemporal Dementia
  • Cognitive Impairment
  • Pharmacology
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 ANCC
$15.00
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a group of degenerative brain disorders causing progressive deterioration in behavior, language, and/or movement. There are presently approximately 60,000 people with FTD in the United States. Onset generally occurs between 50 and 70 years of age, making FTD one of the most common presenile dementias. FTD affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which control emotions, judgment, personality, memory and language. The clinical diagnosis of FTD can be challenging, as some symptoms overlap with Alzheimer disease and other forms of dementia.
Domestic and Sexual Violence
  • 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 5.00 ANCC
  • 5.00 Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
$35.00
Victims of domestic and sexual violence suffer emotional, psychological, and physical abuse, all of which can result in both acute and chronic signs and symptoms of physical and mental disease, illness, and injury. Frequently, the injuries sustained require abused victims to seek care from healthcare professionals immediately after their victimization. Subsequently, physicians and nurses are often the first healthcare providers that victims encounter and are in a critical position to identify victims in a variety of clinical practice settings where victims receive care.
Mandatory Reporting Training for Physicians and Psychiatrists (MD/DO) 2023-2024
  • State Mandated Training
  • Mandated Reporter
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$50.00
The mandatory training is required by Section 1723 of the Medical Practice Act, effective August 1, 2010. 
A Physician’s Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care
  • Cultural Competency
  • 9.00 AANP Contact Hours
  • 9.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 9.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
As healthcare disparities among cultural minority groups persist in our country, culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) are increasingly recognized as an important strategy for improving quality of care to diverse populations. This e-learning program will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and awareness to best serve all patients, regardless of cultural or linguistic background.
Difficult Conversations: A Case-Based Approach to Managing Patients with Pain and Substance Use Disorder
  • Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
  • Pharmacology
  • 0.58 AANP Contact Hours
  • 0.14 AANP Pharmacology Contact Hours
  • 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) present specific challenges for the clinician, particularly if they also suffer from pain, either acute or chronic. This activity outlines the diagnosis of OUD and reviews pain management options including non-opioid therapies and buprenorphine/naloxone, as well as the use of urine drug tests and referral to a treatment center. Through a longitudinal case example, this activity will illustrate examples of counseling for patients with OUD and pain. 
Assessment and Management of Pain at the End of Life
  • Pain Management: End of Life
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 ANCC
$15.00
Because pain is frequently encountered in the palliative and hospice care environments, a knowledge of appropriate diagnosis and alleviation is vital to all members of the interdisciplinary team. A comprehensive discussion of these topics will provide the knowledge base necessary for all members of the interprofessional team to better understand the varied needs of their patients during the end-of-life period and to be better equipped to address those needs.

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