CME
Free CME from Recorded Virtual Women’s Health Seminar
The Female Force Readiness Navy Medicine Operational Clinical Community and BUMED Office of Women’s Health developed and delivered a Virtual Women’s Health Seminar (26 and 27 January 2023) to provide women’s health training for providers including General Medical Officers, Operational Medical Officers, Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, Licensed Independent Practitioners, Independent Duty Corpsmen, and any other interested clinicians. This program was delivered by subject matter experts across several women’s health and medical readiness topics, including preventive healthcare for service women, understanding common women’s health concerns, mental healthcare, and transgender healthcare.
The recorded live training program is available online as a home-study option for participants to review and earn 8 hours of CE/CME credit. To access the recorded live training, post-test, and evaluation to receive CE/CME credit, providers should navigate to the CEPO Continuing Education Management System. The course is titled ‘2023 Virtual Women’s Health Seminar’ and passcode is WH2023.
Free CME from American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Dear Colleagues,
Exciting news that is hot off the press—the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) has granted healthcare professionals within the Department of Defense (DoD) complementary access to their online 5.5 continuing education credit Lifestyle Medicine & Food as Medicine Essentials Course Bundle!! This includes the 1-hr Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine module and the 4.5-hr Food As Medicine modules. It is available to all DoD healthcare professionals in need of continuing education credits. Please share broadly with your DoD healthcare professionals that are associated with military facilities. This will be available until all the complementary licenses are redeemed.
To access the CE bundle, navigate to: https://lifestylemedicine.org/project/essentials
Then review the course information and register at no charge by clicking the “Register Now” button.
It will prompt you to sign in with your ACLM account information — if you do not yet have an account, you can click on “Create A New Account” which is a FREE option.
Then click on the “Register Myself” button to add the training to your shopping cart, then click Proceed to Checkout and use promo code ESS-DOD23 where you can fully register at no charge. (Note that the code is case sensitive).
Also, request access to our *NEW* Lifestyle and Performance Medicine Coalition of the Interested ACLM Connect platform to access all of our working group’s resources (this is replacing our former Teams platform). Follow the instructions on the attached document.
Wishing you and yours a fulfilling, healthful and peaceful holiday season! Thank you for all of your hard work in the field of Lifestyle Medicine! We’ll see you in the New Year!
Air Force Lifestyle & Performance Medicine Working Group
Medical Corps CME/MOC Funding – End of FY – Non-Travel Submissions Due 23 SEP 2022 | Travel Related Funding Due 16 SEP 2022
Medical Corps CME Funding: The end of the Fiscal Year 2022 is approaching. All Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and Non-Travel related Certification Examination funding requests must be submitted to the Navy CME Office by 23 September 2022. Any travel related funding request must be sent to the Navy CME office by 16 September 2022.
In accordance with BUMEDINST 1500.20A, NAVMEDPRODEVCTR will not authorize funding for MOCs or exams taken in prior fiscal years.
MOC and Exam Funding requirements can be found at this website:
Send all inquiries and funding requests to:
usn.bethesda.navmedleadprodevcmd.mbx.nmpdc-cme-funding@health.mil
2023 AMSUS Annual Meeting
The 2023 Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) annual meeting is scheduled to be held 13-16 February 2023 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, Washington, D.C. Main Theme of the Annual Meeting: “Healthcare Collaboration: Meeting the Challenges of Today and Tomorrow”.
General Information:
- Registration will be available via the AMSUS website: **15 September.** This includes the hotel room block.
- The Annual Meeting is an in-person only meeting this year, 27.5 CME/CE hours will be available (ACCME, ANCC, ACPE, AANP; and credits when applicable to APA, ACHE, NASW, ADA-CERP).
- Change from the past – the meeting will start on 13 February with the opening ceremony at 1200, allowing for morning plenary sessions.
- Navy breakouts sessions will be:
- 14 FEB at 1500-1600;
- 15 FEB at 1300-1400
- 15 FEB from 1400-1500, and
- 16 FEB from 0800-0900.
- Navy Plenary date and time will be 16 FEB from 0830-0900.
Deadlines:
- For Plenary and Breakout Presentations: Submissions open **6 July** for submission of title, description, learning outcomes (3), and up to four presenters. Submission deadline will be **3 October;** presentation slide decks will be due **12 December.** Submissions must comply with CE requirements.
- Poster Presentations will be 15 FEB from 1100 to 1830 for up to 100 accepted posters. This year there will not be any virtual poster viewing options. Submissions via the platform will open **6 July** for poster abstracts; submissions close **15 October.**
- AMSUS Awards: Nominations through the AMSUS online portal will be accepted from **6 July to 15 October 2022.** Late submissions will not be considered.
- Exhibit booths: sign up for federal agencies start **15 July.**
AMSUS POCs:
- BUMED AMSUS POC: CAPT Marc Herwitz (contact in the global)
- For speakers, posters and education content, lori.lawrence@amsus.org
- For exhibits and sponsorship: stacie.mcardle@amsus.org
- For general meeting questions and awards inquiries: kathleen.kelley@amsus.org
- For communication and marketing: martha.silver@amsus.org
Virtual Indo-Pacific Military Health Exchange Conference – Must Sign Up By 0800 EST Tomorrow!
The INDOPACIFIC MILITARY HEALTH EXCHANGE (7-10 MAR 2022, 0800-1600 India time), the premiere regional military medical conference in the INDOPACIFIC has opened many more seats since it is now virtual. The kicker is you have to register by 0800 Sunday EST. The link to the form is below. I know you cannot likely attend many of the talks but this gives you access to them for 30 days and you can view them at your convenience. There is a certificate that you can file and attempt to get category 2 CME or your organization’s equivalent.
Here’s the link to register if you are interested:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNIyAuAkhUK9qFTcVcUmOL16Cj2GjlgbZbmxoXBe9fQ9XInA/viewform
DHA Peer Support Training
Registration is now open for the Special Feature Webinar, Peer Support Training that will occur on 24 March 2021 from 1430-1630 (ET) virtually through Adobe Connect. This special feature webinar will offer up to 2.0 Continuing Education/Continuing Medical Education (CE/CME) credits. To register for this course, please visit the following link:
https://www.dhaj7-cepo.com/content/special-feature-webinar-peer-support-training-24-mar-2021
Event Overview: This Special Feature Webinar describes the detrimental impacts to health care providers of significant career events such as adverse outcomes of care, litigation, adverse licensure actions, deployment, career transition and COVID-19. Evidence-based interventions and recommendations are provided for colleagues, peers and leadership to support providers through these events, and the scrutiny and stress that often accompany them. The educational content has been developed by an internationally recognized subject matter expert in the fields of peer support and health care provider resiliency. The primary focus of this event is to improve the ability of Military Health System (MHS) providers to support their colleagues in an empathetic and productive manner after a significant career stressor; and to ensure that all MHS health care providers have access to a safe, non-judgmental resource that supports emotional, physical and professional well-being after these events.
After this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Recognize effects of adverse events on clinicians.
- Demonstrate skills for providing peer support to colleagues.
- Discuss methods for overcoming barriers (organizational and professional) to peer support.
- Develop a support structure to assist clinicians when going through rapid change, transitions and uncertainty.
Participation: To register for the Special Feature Webinar, Peer Support Training, please visit the following link:
https://www.dhaj7-cepo.com/content/special-feature-webinar-peer-support-training-24-mar-2021
Spend Your FY20 CME and Board Certification/MOC Money Now!
Due to COVID-induced limitations on travel, the Medical Corps has some remaining FY20 funds to support reimbursement of Maintenance of Certification (MOC) fees, Non-BSO-18 CME fees as well as board certification fees. As these are FY20 funds, the requests for reimbursement must be submitted to the CME funding email address (usn.bethesda.navmedprodevctrmd.mbx.nmpdc-cme-funding@mail.mil) NLT COB 21 SEP 2020 and one must pay the MOC fee/take the exam/attend the CME event NLT 30 SEP.
COVID Grand Rounds Today at 1630 EST
Sorry, but I just found out about this one, and it is today at 1630 EST. It is titled:
COVID-19 Therepeutics: “The 3-Legged Stool” Featuring Dr. Michael Joyner, of the Mayo Clinic
Details are in this PDF document.
Defense Strategies Institute Operational Medicine Symposium -22-23 JAN 2020 – San Diego
Here’s a link to the conference website for those interested in operational medicine (which should be everyone reading this):
Free Clinical Resources
Here are some free clinical resources recently sent out by the OB/GYN Specialty Leader, CDR Lamb:
Audio Digest Platinum
Lectures from over 350 meetings and 16 specialties that you can use to earn CME. It also has a dashboard of quiz questions for board preparation and self-assessment. It comes in an app so you can use it on your phone as well.
Here are some handouts:
Open Athens Account
This allows you to access free journal articles and textbooks away from work (on your home computer or phone). See the info below for information on how to set up an account.
Here is the link for self-registration for access to create an Athens account:
https://register.openathens.net/med.navy.mil/registerYou now have the capability to self-register using the following email domain addresses:
@ah19.navy.mil @fe.navy.mil @lpd9.navy.mil @us.army.mil
@ah20.navy.mil @health.mil @mail.mil @uscg.mil
@cvn68.navy.mil @jtfgtmo.southcom.mil @mcw.usmc.mil @usmc.mil
@cvn69.navy.mil @lhd1.navy.mil @me.navy.mil @usmc-mccs.org
@cvn70.navy.mil @lhd2.navy.mil @me.usmc.mil @va.gov
@cvn71.navy.mil @lhd3.navy.mil @med.navy.mil @vb.socom.mil
@cvn72.navy.mil @lhd4.navy.mil @navsoc.socom.mil @whmo.mil
@cvn73.navy.mil @lhd5.navy.mil @navy.mil
@cvn74.navy.mil @lhd6.navy.mil @ndu.edu
@cvn75.navy.mil @lhd7.navy.mil @nrl.navy.mil
@cvn76.navy.mil @lhd8.navy.mil @soc.mil
@cvn77.navy.mil @lpd5.navy.mil @socom.mil
@cvn78.navy.mil @lpd6.navy.mil @swflant.navy.mil
@dha.mil @lpd7.navy.mil @tma.osd.mil
@eu.navy.mil @lpd8.navy.mil @us.af.milIf your email domain is not in the list above or if you are unable to use the self-registration process, please send me an email with your information and medical specialty/position and I will create an account for you. (Working with the vendor to update the website)
Select Navy Medicine Electronic Library as your library
Once you complete the self-registration process the system will send you an email from athens@bianca.eduserv.org.uk with a link to allow you to create a password for use with the system.
Passwords are case sensitive, between 8 and 20 characters long, and contain a mix of letters and non-letters. They cannot be the same as your username, contain ascending or descending series of characters or common patterns.
The system will send an email to your new email address with a link for you to click on to confirm your new address is correct.
You must activate your account by using this link included in the email from
athens@bianca.eduserv.org.uk.Here is the link to logon to Athens
https://my.openathens.net/Here is the link in case you forget your password for your account. You
will need you username and the email account currently associated with your
account on the Athens system to recover your password.
https://login.openathens.net/auth#forgottenpasswordAfter you have logon to the system, you can change your password and update
your email address information on the “My Account” tab.Passwords are case sensitive, between 8 and 20 characters long, and contain a mix of letters and non-letters. They cannot be the same as your username, contain ascending or descending series of characters or common patterns.
Please update your current duty station, email address and phone # in the Global Address Listing so that we may contact you (if required).
Update Global Address List (GAL)
https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/identitymanagement/authenticate.do?execution=e2s1I would suggest that you bookmark these links in your favorites.
Any questions/problems or if I may be of additional service or support
please let me know.Very Respectfully,
James H. Coyle, CSM
Program Manager – Navy Medicine electronic Library (NMeL)
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