Meetings, Events, CME

Educational Opportunity – Minnesota
Stop the Clot® Forum
Sponsored by the National Alliance for Thrombosis & Thrombophilia – MN Chapter
Saturday, March 6th
8:00 am – 1:00 pm

Maplewood Community Center
2100 White Bear Avenue
Maplewood, MN

This is an interactive forum on blood clots and clotting disorders. There is a health care provider track for you and your colleagues and a consumer track for your patients and their family members. Nurses will earn three continuing education credits.
Registration fee is $25. Go to www.stoptheclot.org/mn to view the agenda and to register

Help Stop the Clot® by forming a team for the inaugural Stop the Clot® Walk
Saturday, May 15th at Centennial Lakes Park in Edina.
The walk is from 9:00 am –11:00 am.

Challenge your fellow colleagues to raise more money than your team.
All donations benefit the MN Chapter of the National Alliance for Thrombosis & Thrombophilia

Go to www.stoptheclot.org/mn for more information and to register today.

Anticoagulation Therapy Management Certificate Program
Offered by University of Southern Indiana 6 times per year.
This is a 6 week, 40-hour continuing education program for nurses, pharmacists and physicians – for those responsible for monitoring and managing out-patient anticoagulant therapy.
$500 (+$50 for pharmacists requesting contact hours)
Nurses (including California nurses) - 40 hours.
Certified Case Managers - 40 CCM clock hours.
Pharmacists - 40 contact hours, or 4.0 CEU’s

University of Illinois – College of Pharmacy ACPE
Their ACPE certificate program is now offered in 6-module on-line series; however, no final ACPE certificate is offered.  Each module offers CE credits.

The Anticoagulation Therapy Certificate Program
Offered by Office of Continuing Education – College of Pharmacy (University of Florida)
Ongoing 12-week program - $995.00
3 Continuing Pharmacy education credits (3 CEU’s)

Anticoagulation Management Certificate Program for Pharmacists
Offered by Virginia Commonwealth University
15 hour (1.5 CEU) web-based educational program, and a 6-hour (.6 CEU) workshop
Total 2.1 CEU
$599.00 (discount for community preceptors and VCU/SOP alumni)

Certificate of Basic Competency in Antithrombotic Therapy
Learn Antithrombotic Therapy - 5 progressive learning modules
Certificate total of 7.5 hrs. training for pharmacists and nurses
$29.95 - Click on ‘Learn Antithrombotic Therapy’, then click on ‘Register’

Cleveland Clinic CME
They offer free live, online, webcasts and podcasts for CME, ongoing.

Harvard Medical School – Department of Continuing Education
Look for ‘CME – Online’ section. Prices vary.

HemostasisCME.org
The goal of HemostasisCME.org is to educate physicians and other healthcare professionals with the most cutting-edge information available related to hemostasis management.

John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hematology eDigest - free online publication delivered to your email inbox.
Monthly reviews of medical literature surrounding the most important issues in Hematology. 0.5 CME per issue from John Hopkins by completing online post test. 

ThrombosisClinic.com
This resource for healthcare professionals emphasizes the latest in emerging approaches in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Thrombosis.  They offer an extensive CME Learning Center with ongoing new learning opportunities, Case Studies, Expert Commentary, Live Presentations and podcasts, slide kits, monographs and publications.