Use REMM: Earn CME
- Online lecture title:
The Radiation Event Medical Management Web Portal — A Novel Resource for Health Care Providers (http://remm.nlm.gov)
- Sponsored by:
Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA, CDC)
- Date lecture originally given:
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
CE credits will be available until January 15, 2009
- Speakers:
CAPT Jeffrey B. Nemhauser, MD, USPHS, Deputy Managing Editor, REMM
CAPT Judith L. Bader, MD, USPHS, Managing Editor of REMM
- How to take the course:
- Go to Conference Call Information, Summaries, & Slide Sets (COCA, CDC)
- Register for credit at CDC Training and Continuing Education Online
- Download the slide set (Power Point, 7.9 MB, 71 pages) for later, but while you listen to the lecture, use REMM live online
- Go to the REMM web site home page: http://remm.nlm.gov
- Listen to the lecture via streaming audio (mp3, 6 MB) while accessing the REMM web pages referred to by the speaker
- How to get CME for REMM:
- Continuing Education guidelines require that the attendance of all who participate in COCA Conference Calls be properly documented.
- All Continuing Education credits (CME, CNE, CEU and CHES) for COCA Conference Calls are issued online through the CDC Training & Continuing Education Online system.
- Those who participate in the COCA Conference Calls and who wish to receive CE credit and will complete the online evaluation by Feb. 14, 2008 will use the course code EC1265.
- Those who wish to receive CE credit and will complete the online evaluation between Feb. 15, 2008 and Jan. 15, 2009 will use course code WD1265.
- CE certificates can be printed immediately upon completion of your online evaluation.
- A cumulative transcript of all CDC/ATSDR CE's obtained through the CDC Training & Continuing Education Online System will be maintained for each user.
- Lecture Objectives:
At the conclusion of the call, participants should be able to:
- Identify the various types of radiation mass casualty events
- Distinguish between radiation exposure and radiation contamination
- Rapidly locate resources needed to assist in the diagnosis, quantification, and treatment of radiation exposure
- Rapidly locate resources needed to assist in the diagnosis, quantification, and treatment of radiation contamination
- Describe the recommended procedures for external decontamination
- List several isotopes of concern in a radiation mass casualty event
- Identify available medical countermeasures for use in victims of a radiation mass casualty event
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