Educational Program

• Earn CME Credit
• Earn MOC Credit

Fulfill State CME Requirements

Internal Medicine 2012 is now over. If you attended the meeting, you may claim for CME credit here.

Attending Internal Medicine 2012 is an excellent way to fulfill your state CME relicensure requirements. Earn up to 31 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ from your participation in scientific sessions and activities in the Herbert S. Waxman Clinical Skills Center. Internal Medicine 2012 meets broad-based state CME requirements as well as specific content requirements mandated by some states. See below for the complete list.

Appropriate Prescribing/Prescribing Controlled Substances

(Oklahoma, Tennessee)

• Dangerous Drugs and How to Minimize Their Dangers
• Effective Treatment of Gout: It’s Harder Than It Looks
• Pain Management in the Hospital Setting
• Pain Management in the Outpatient Setting
• Pharmacology of the New Oral Antithrombotic Drugs: Rivaroxaban, Apixaban, and Dabigatran
• Safe and Effective Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis by the Internist
• Statins in Special Populations: Stroke, PAD, and Perioperative Prevention of Cardiovascular Complications
• Summary of Major New Drugs Made Available in Calendar Year 2011
• The Art of Discontinuing Medications

Cultural Competence

(Connecticut, New Jersey)

• Addressing Health Disparities: Hispanic and Latino Physicians' Perspective

End-of-Life and Palliative Health Care

(California, Oregon, Rhode Island, West Virginia)

• Ethical Challenges in Advance Care Planning
• Palliative and End-of-Life Care

Ethics/Professional Responsibility

(Nevada, Rhode Island, Texas)

• Addressing Health Disparities: Hispanic and Latino Physicians' Perspective
• Challenges to Professionalism in 2012
• Confronting the Need to Conserve Health Care Resources
• Ethical Challenges in Advance Care Planning
• To Test or Not to Test: Ethics of Genetics in the Office
• Ethics Year in Review
• Ethics, Professionalism, and the Electronic Health Record
• Patient-Centered Medical Home: Ethics, Accountability, and Teamwork
• Privacy, Security and Liability in a Digital Age

Geriatric Medicine

(California)

• Assessing Driving Safety
• Common Clinical Challenges in Caring for Elderly Patients: Dizziness, Vertigo, and Falls
• Disaster Preparedness: Addressing Concerns of the Older Population
• Evaluation and Treatment of Dementia
• Falls: Evaluation and Management of Hospitalized and Ambulatory Patients
• Respect the Elderly: Management of Heart Disease in the Very Old Patient
• Pressure Ulcers: A Hospitalist's Approach
• Update in Geriatric Medicine
• Women's Sexual Health and Aging

HIV/AIDS

(Florida, Kentucky)

• HIV Infection: Current Themes for the Internist

Infectious Disease/Infection Control

(Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island)

• Chronic Hepatitis: The Bs and the Cs
• Does This Patient Have an Infection?
• HIV Infection: Current Themes for the Internist
• Management of Common Outpatient Infections
• Nosocomial Infections and Hospital Epidemiology
• Pneumonia: Newer Pathogens, New Resistance, and Respiratory Infections in the Immunocompromised Host
• The Current Status of Antimicrobials
• Travel Medicine: A Case-Based Approach
• Update in Infectious Diseases
• What's New in Immunizations?

Pain Management

California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia)

• Pain Management in the Hospital Setting
• Pain Management in the Outpatient Setting

Patient Safety/Risk Reduction/Risk Management

(Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania)

• Avoiding ICU Complications
• Dangerous Drugs and How to Minimize Their Dangers
• Evidence-Based Electronic Resources for Patient Care
• Finding Meaning in EHR Meaningful Use in 2012
• Implementing an EHR: Dealing with Chart Conversion and Other Common Pitfalls
• Going Electronic: Preparing for and Selecting an EHR
• Medical Errors in the Hospital Setting: A Survival Manual
• Medical Malpractice 2012: What Have We Learned From Case Experience?
• Privacy, Security, and Liability in a Digital Age
• QI in Hospital Medicine
• Transition of Care