Online or Self-Study Educational Opportunities

Online or Self-Study Educational Opportunities

Airway Responses and Asthma

Online study available for 0.5 CME category 1 credits.  Material presented at the 2004 Conference of the American Thoracic Society in May 2002.  Content has two parts including, "Airway Responses to Allergens and Viruses: Age Matters" and "Impact of Pharmacogenetics on the Response to Asthma Treatment", with overall learning objectives to describe airways responses to allergens and viruses across the lifespan and to apply new concepts in the diagnosis and management of asthma.

http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/3210

Children's Health and The Environment: Environmentally Healthy Homes and Communities

Need to learn more about environmental health? This Clinical Update focuses on indoor air quality, drinking water, lead, mercury, pesticides, radon, and much more. Up to 2.8 Nursing Continuing Education credits offered for this program offered by the American Nursing Association and Medscape.

http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/2660

Childhood Asthma and Allergies: Improving Evidence-Based Treatment and the Role of Inhaled Corticosteroids

This activity is intended to update practicing pediatricians, primary care physicians, and other health care practitioners of the growing burden of childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis and provide current evidence on the appropriate diagnosis of these potentially coexisting conditions.  The National Jewish Medical and Research Center designate this educational activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award

http://www.pedasthma-cme.com/

The Environmental Management of Asthma

A free online continuing medical education program sponsored by the American Association of Health Plans/Health Insurance Association of America (AAHP/HIAA) and the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI), the program's objective is to equip the medical community and health plans with resources to incorporate environmental management into asthma disease management programs and clinical practices, and to create standards of care for asthma patients.

http://www.aaaai.org/members/cme_ce/environmental_management/

Improving Childhood Asthma Therapy: The Role of Holding Chambers in Medication Delivery

This is a 1.5 hour, Category 1 CME credit program offered by MedPro Communications Inc, based in Seabrook, Texas.  Contact MedPro at 2511-B Nasa Road 1, Sutie 107, Seabrook, Texas 77586.  Also the American Lung Association has copies of this CME self-study program.  Contact Neisha Reynolds at 651-268-7616 for more information or to obtain a copy of the program.

Improving NAEPP Updates Guidelines on Management of Asthma in Pregnant Women CME on MEDSCAPE

The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) has updated their guidelines on the management of asthma in pregnant women, according to an executive summary published in the January issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. These guidelines are similar to those for standard asthma in that they emphasize stepped care and similar medications, but they also mandate good asthma control during pregnancy. The guidelines are available online at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/lung/asthma/astpreg.htm