Workshops and Conferences
- Now Available: Comprehensive Youth Obesity Prevention
Collaborative
The audio and presentation materials are now available gratis online (click
here). This presentation was developed for the Association for Community
Health Improvement, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES:
- HHS Offers CME Program on Women and Heart Disease: The
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health has
announced the availability of a free Web-based provider education Continuing
Medical Education (CMS) program on women and heart disease. The CME program
is part of a comprehensive set of educational materials developed for
physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals as part of The Heart
Truth Professional Education Campaign. The CME program is available at:
http://www.womenshealth.gov/hearttruth/cme.cfm.
- The Heart Truth Professional Education Program Interactive Case
Based Modules
CME/CE:
http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/5438. More free opportunities from
MedScape:
http://www.medscape.com/medscapetoday/cme.
- Get With the
Guidelines Online Interactive Tutorial (2 CEU's)
This premier hospital-based quality improvement program, from the American
Heart Association and the American Stroke Association, empowers health care
provider teams to consistently treat heart and stroke patients according to
the most up-to-date guidelines.
- Get With the Guidelines: National AHA Webinars
New Programs:
https://gwtg.webex.com/gwtg/mywebex/default.php?Rnd6342=0.4002659653764547.
Recorded Events:
https://gwtg.webex.com/gwtg/mywebex/default.php?Rnd7294=0.6194525891403165.
- Advances in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases: An Ongoing
Professional Education Series
The American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association are pleased
to bring health care providers a series of ongoing certified educational
programs addressing topics that impact the treatment of patients with
cardiovascular disease: http://www.heartcmeprograms.org.
- Go Red for Women: Web Based Case Studies
This web-based case-studies course covers the major topics in the American
Heart Association's Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women.
The course objective is to help health care professionals understand which
preventive therapies should or should not be used for cardiovascular disease
prevention in women:
http://www.professionaleducationcenter.americanheart.org.
- Get With the Guidelines Workshops for Stroke, Heart Failure and
Coronary Artery Disease
In alignment with the impact goal of the American Heart Association (which is
to reduce coronary heart disease, stroke and risk by 25% by 2010), the
Get With the Guidelines: Stroke, CAD, and HF (GWTG)
program will assist health professionals in institutions implementing the
American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology Secondary
Prevention Guidelines in patients discharged with coronary artery disease
(CAD).
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