Introducing Health Professionals to NLM's Online Systems

Continuing Medical Education

These activities have been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of NIH/FAES and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine's regional medical libraries. The NIH/FAES is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The NIH/FAES designates these educational activities for a maximum of 8.5 category 1 credits towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits actually spent in the educational activity.

Checklist for Conducting CME Events: HTML version , Microsoft Word
Sample Registration Form: HTML, Word

Legal Documents

Letter to Instructors and Disclosure Statement (includes Definitions of Relevant Terms): Word
Policy for Commercial Support: HTML, Word

Publicity

Publicity Template and sample: HTML, Word

Objectives

Statement of Educational Objectives: HTML, Word

Program Outlines and Brief Course Descriptions

Introduction to Consumer Health Resources at NLM: MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov and the NLM Gateway (1 hour): HTML, Word
Introduction to Consumer Health Resources at NLM: MedlinePlus, Clinical Trials.gov and the NLM Gateway (1.5 hours): HTML, Word
Introduction to PubMed (1 hour): HTML, Word
Introduction to PubMed "plus" (2 hours): HTML, Word
Introduction to PHPartners.org (1 hour): HTML, Word
Introduction to PHPartners.org (2 hours): HTML, Word