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AdvancingIn
AdvancingIn provides free, accredited online programs to all healthcare professionals across Canada. Our mission is to assist you in achieving your educational goals and to help improve the health of patients by providing you with the latest up to date information in multiple therapeutic areas. We currently offer a number of accredited Respiratory Health programs. All our programs are brought to you by leading experts in their field.
We invite you to participate in our programs from the comfort of your home or office, at any time convenient to you. Click here to register now!
American Medical Association (AMA) Pain Management
The American Medical Association has an excellent lecture and discussion related to pain management. The AMA's online CME programs provide clinical perspective on managing osteoporosis and pain management. Additional online CME activities include Gift to Physician from Industry, JAMA and Archives journals as well as online Fellowship in Physician Ethics and Professionalism.
BMJ Learning
BMJ Learning is a learning website for medical professionals. It offers a wide range of learning resources, commissioned by the BMJ Group. The learning resources deal with everyday issues in primary care and hospital medicine. They are evidence based and peer reviewed.
http://learning.bmj.com/learning/main.html
Centre for Clinical Excellence
Nellcor offers free, accredited online educational courses for registered nurses and respiratory therapists through their Center for Clinical Excellence website. Choose from a variety of self-paced courses that are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Courses offer convenient post-testing and the ability to print your certificate upon completion. Certificates may be used to meet or accumulate contact hour requirements for re-licensure. The educational programs focus on cardiopulmonary physiology and disease, ventilator management strategies and relevant technology.
CHEexcellence.ca
CHEexcellence.ca is an e-learning environment in which physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists can update their knowledge in order to treat their patients with the most current and appropriate treatment, services and information.
http://www.cheexcellence.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/45851/la_id/1.htm
Discover Campus
Discover Campus is an innovative, interactive web community offering high-quality online Continuing Medical Education (CME) to healthcare professionals’ world wide. Each course includes a discussion board, library and multiple choice quizzes.
www.discoverycampus.com
Doctor’s Guide CME
This site offers a variety of specialized practice areas in one site. A Personal Edition is also offered for your one comprehensive source for peer-reviewed literature, case studies, webcasts and more. It's free, and waiting for you now.
www.docguide.com
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www.docguide.com/dgc.nsf
Justice Institute of British Columbia
Introduction to Health Emergency Management
This complimentary course will give health care personnel who may be expected to take an active role during an emergency or disaster, a better understanding of where they fit into the big picture of Health Emergency Management (HEM). Students will gain an appreciation for the role they play in HEM, as well as the support structures and systems available during an emergency/disaster. In other words, when you complete the course, you will feel that you are not alone in the event of an emergency/disaster.
Register at: http://www.jibc.ca/course/hem100
MedicalRounds
MedicalRounds webcasts presentations and conferences for many contributing medical groups. All talks are originally presented at recognized quality grand rounds or professional educational meetings.
Medscape
Medscape is a user friendly multi layered medical education resource with an abundance of Continuing Medical Education (CME) courses. Medscape offers free, continuously updated continuing education activities for physicians and other health professionals.
TheAnswerPage
Every morning the site offers one question and answer in each of five specialty areas: Critical Care, Anesthesiology, Neonatology, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Pain Management. You can stay up-to-date in only ten minutes a day.
The answers, prepared by faculty members of prominent American medical schools, are concise, thorough and supported by current references.
University of British Columbia - School of Environmental Health and Health Canada
UBC’s School of Environmental Health and Health Canada have developed a free online, on demand course titled Outdoor Air Quality and Health and the Air Quality Health Index targeted to health professionals. Health Canada estimates that 6,000 premature deaths per year in Canada are caused by air pollution. As well, many common respiratory conditions are exacerbated by poor air quality. To learn more about this course – available in French and English - click here