Online Courses
Earn Continuing Education Credit Without Ever Leaving The Comfort Of Your Home Or Office By Taking An Online Course!
Our "one stop shopping" approach means you can register for the course, complete the course, take a short test and be awarded your printable electronic certificate all in one session.
If you don't have time to take the course in one session, you may return to it as many times as you like without registering again. A summary of each course is outlined below; for more information, click on the course's name. If you have any questions, please email us.
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Online Course Listing:
HIV/AIDS Update
Summary: The
prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS by healthcare professionals, as well as
legal and ethical aspects relating to this disease, are explored in this
course.
Credit: Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services (CHS) credit to
fulfill licensure requirements for all Kentucky healthcare professionals;
Physicians: two hours of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME)
credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award;
Nurses: 2.4 contact
hours of nursing credit through the University of Louisville School of
Nursing
Cost: $75.00 for physicians and dentists; $50 for all other
healthcare professionals; free for U of L School of Medicine and School of
Dentistry incoming residents/fellows for the upcoming academic year. Retrieve additional information for Incoming Residents.
Course created by: University of Louisville
Continuing Health Sciences Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take
the HIV/AIDS Update Course.
Domestic
Violence
Summary: This course provides an in-depth look at the
medical, social and legal issues surrounding domestic violence.
Credit: The course fulfills the domestic violence continuing
education requirement (Kentucky Regulatory Statute 194) for health care
professionals in the state of Kentucky.;
Physicians will earn three hours of
Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit toward the AMA Physician's
Recognition Award;
Nurses: 3.6 contact hours of nursing credit through the
University of Louisville School of Nursing
Cost: Viewing the materials
is free; $25 to take the test and receive continuing education credit;
continuing education credit is free for U of L School of Medicine and School of
Dentistry incoming residents/fellows for the upcoming academic year. Retrieve additional Domestic Violence course information for Incoming Residents.
Course created by: University of Louisville
Continuing Health Sciences Education
Retrieve More Infomation And/Or Take the Domestic Violence Course.
Conscious
Sedation
Summary: This course provides an in-depth view of the
procedures used by healthcare professionals in employing conscious
sedation.
Credit: One hour of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education
(CME) credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award; 1.2 hours of nursing
credit through the University of Louisville School of Nursing
Cost:
$25
Course created by: University of Louisville Continuing Health
Sciences Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Conscious Sedation Course.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain
Injury
Summary: Humana Military Healthcare Services
is pleased to sponsor two new continuing medical education topics for
physicians, covering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain
Injury (TBI). Civilian providers are not well versed in diagnosis and treatment
of PTSD and TBI, but these diseases are prevalent in civilian populations and
are of increasing importance as active duty, reserve, and guard troops return
from war with these problems, which may go undetected. This course is designed
for all physicians who provide care for civilian, veteran, and active duty
military patients who have witnessed or have been exposed to serious
trauma.
Credit: Physicians will earn 2.0 hours of Category 1
Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition
Award
Cost: Free
Course created by: Humana Military Healthcare
Services
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Post Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain Injury Course.
Public
Health Preparedness Courses
Summary: The online courses listed
on this page are designed to help prepare healthcare providers to respond
effectively to emergency situations including terrorism, biowarfare and pandemic
outbreak.
Credit: Varies, see individual course
listings
Cost: Free
Courses created by: University of
Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness &
University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Public Health Preparedness Courses.
The Swine Flu Pandemic
Summary: The ongoing outbreak of novel influenza A (H1N1) continues to expand in the
United States and internationally. The CDC expects that more cases, more
hospitalizations and more deaths from this outbreak will occur over the coming
days and weeks. This symposium will provide key information to:
1)
help reduce transmission and illness severity and 2) provide HSC faculty, public
health officials and healthcare professionals the information to address the
challenges posed by this emergency.
Credit:
Physicians will earn 1.0 hours of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME)
credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award; Nurses will earn 1.2
contact hours from the University of Louisville School of
Nursing
Cost: Free
Course created by: University of
Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness &
University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences Education
Click Here For More Information And/Or Take the Course
Community In Crisis Events: This Time It's
Personal
Summary: Dr. Nicholas Mosca discusses and examines
the experiences and lessons he learned in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In
particular, Dr. Mosca reflects why oral health matters in the event of a
disaster and in the recovery response efforts and planning.
Credit:
Physicians will earn 1.5 hours of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME)
credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award; Nurses will earn 1.8
contact hours from the University of Louisville School of
Nursing
Cost: Free
Course created by: University of
Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness &
University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Community In Crisis Events Course.
Surviving the Next Pandemic: Bird Flu and
Other Emerging Infectious Diseases
Summary: Leading public
health authorities now predict as inevitable a pandemic of influenza, triggered
by bird flu and expected to lead to millions of deaths around the globe. The
influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal
virus of wild ducks. What turned a harmless waterborne duck virus into a killer?
Discover the answers in this informative online course.
Credit:
Physicians will earn 1.5 hours of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME)
credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award; Nurses will earn 1.8
contact hours from the University of Louisville School of
Nursing
Cost: Free
Course created by: University of
Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness &
University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Bird Flu Course.
Recognition and Initial Management of
Chemical Casualties
Summary: The course's three main
objectives are to describe the types of chemical warfare agents, recognize signs
and symptoms of chemical exposure, and describe how to manage, decontaminate,
and treat the victims of a chemical agent attack. Other topics discussed are
triage and treatment protocols for a nerve agent exposure.
Credit:
Physicians will earn 1.5 hours of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME)
credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award; Nurses will earn 1.8
contact hours from the University of Louisville School of
Nursing
Cost: Free
Course created by: University of
Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness &
University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Chemical Casualties Course.
Lessons from the Neurosurgical Theater:
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Summary: During his six month service
in Iraq, Dr. Gerald Grant, an officer and neurosurgeon in the U.S. Air Force and
clinical faculty in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio, managed neurological trauma as well as
blast traumas and general surgical practice. Dr. Grant's battlefield experiences
as shared in this online course demonstrate the real-life application of mass
casualty triage.
Credit: Physicians will earn 1.5 hours of Category 1
Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition
Award; Nurses will earn 1.8 contact hours from the University of Louisville
School of Nursing
Cost: Free
Course created by: University
of Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness &
University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Lessons from the Neurological Theater Course.
Preventing Transmission Of
Infections
Summary: This unique educational module focuses on
the modes of disease transmission, explaining the ways diseases or organisms
move from one individual to another. The module also examines the relationship
between standard precautions and transmission-based precautions, and emphasizes
how these precautions can help protect both the patient and the healthcare
personnel from the exposure to an infection.
Credit: Physicians will
earn 1.5 hours of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit toward
the AMA Physician's Recognition Award; Nurses will earn 1.8 contact hours from
the University of Louisville School of Nursing
Cost: Free
Course
created by: University of Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness
& Kentucky TRAIN
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Preventing Transmission of Infections Course.;
Note: to take the course
you must create a TRAIN account. Once you have created an account and logged in
to TRAIN, you must enter the course ID number - 1006060 - in the Course ID
box.
Population Health Protection and Information
Infrastructure
Summary: The aim of this course is to
understand why, what, and how information infrastructure is needed to protect
population health.
Credit: Physicians will earn 1.5 hours of Category
1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit toward the AMA Physician's
Recognition Award; Nurses will earn 1.8 contact hours from the University of
Louisville School of Nursing
Cost: Free
Course created by:
University of Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness & University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences
Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Population Health Protection Course.
Avian Influenza
& The Coming Pandemic
Summary: This course discusses the
clinical characteristics and the infectivity of avian influenza, as well as the
physiology of influenza viruses.
Credit: Physicians will earn 1.5
hours of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit toward the AMA
Physician's Recognition Award; Nurses will earn 1.8 contact hours from the
University of Louisville School of Nursing
Cost: Free
Course
created by: University of Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness
& University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences
Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Avian Influenza & The Coming Pandemic Course.
Emergency
Medical Management of Radiological/Nuclear Incidents
Summary:
The aim of this course is to discuss the roles of health providers in planning,
preparedness, education, and communication needed for emergency response and
consequence management.
Credit: Physicians will earn 1.5 hours of
Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit toward the AMA Physician's
Recognition Award; Nurses will earn 1.8 contact hours from the University of
Louisville School of Nursing
Cost: Free
Course created by:
University of Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness & University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences
Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Emergency Medical Management of Radiological/Nuclear Incidents Course.
Neuroterrorism:
Chemical Threats to Human Health
Summary: This course provides
an historical overview of the major groups of chemical agents considered to be
terrorist threats, including of the nerve agents, vesicants, cyanide, pulmonary
intoxicants, ammonia, and riot control agents.
Credit: Physicians
will earn 1.5 hours of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit
toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award; Nurses will earn 1.8 contact hours
from the University of Louisville School of Nursing
Cost:
Free
Course created by: University of Louisville Center for Health
Hazards Preparedness & University of Louisville
Continuing Health Sciences Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Neuroterrorism Course.
Pandemic Flu: Will It Occur & Are We
Prepared?
Summary: This course examines the clinical
characteristics and infectivity of avian influenza as well as the physiology of
influenza viruses.
Credit: Physicians will earn 1.5 hours of Category
1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit toward the AMA Physician's
Recognition Award; Nurses will earn 1.8 contact hours from the University of
Louisville School of Nursing
Cost: Free
Course created by:
University of Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness & University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences
Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Pandemic Flu Course.
Kentucky's
Preparedness Plans
Summary: This course examines and defines
public health and the core functions of public health, such as assessment,
health policy, and assurance.
Credit: Physicians will earn 1.5 hours
of Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit toward the AMA
Physician's Recognition Award; Nurses will earn 1.8 contact hours from the
University of Louisville School of Nursing
Cost: Free
Course
created by: University of Louisville Center for Health Hazards Preparedness
& University of Louisville Continuing Health Sciences
Education
Retrieve More Information And/Or Take the Kentucky's Preparedness Plans Course.

