Medscape Transplantation Education (CME and Other Learning Activities)

Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies: An Introduction for Physicians, Nurses, and Pharmacists CME/CE What is REMS, and what does it mean for your practice?
FDA and Medscape Education, May 1, 2012
Lessons Learned in the Clinic: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Innovation in Kidney Transplantation CME/CE A multidisciplinary team shares their experience implementing a new standard of care in kidney transplantation.
Medscape Education Transplantation , March 22, 2012
Costimulation Blocker Therapy for Transplantation: Translating Research Into Practice CME/CE A new, first-in-class costimulation blocking agent may change the standard of care for immunosuppression in kidney transplantation.
Medscape Education Transplantation , December 21, 2011
Posttransplant Viral Infections: Understanding and Managing the Risk CME/CE Dr. Michael Green highlights key data on prevention of viral infections in pediatric transplant recipients, as presented at the 6th Congress of IPTA.
Medscape Education Transplantation , November 10, 2011
Antibody-Mediated Rejection: A New Paradigm CME/CE If you saw inflammation, it was rejection, but if you did not it was CNI nephrotoxicity; new data are challenging this conventional wisdom.
Medscape Education Transplantation , November 8, 2011
Costimulatory Blockade in Transplantation: A Primer on Mechanisms of Action CME/CE Conventional immunosuppressants target alloreactive and nonalloreactive T cells, resulting in global immunosuppression; the new biologic blocks signal 2, leaving the rest of the immune system intact.
Medscape Education Oncology, September 28, 2011

Clinical Briefs

Combination Treatment More Effective Than Monotherapy in Early RA CME At 102 weeks, immediate combination treatment or triple therapy was more effective than monotherapy before step-up therapy in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis.
Medscape Education Clinical Briefs, May 2, 2012
Opioid Use After Ambulatory Surgery Linked With Longer-Term Use CME
Medscape Education Clinical Briefs, March 20, 2012
Guidelines Recommend Blood Glucose Testing in All Hospitalized Patients CME
Medscape Education Clinical Briefs, January 12, 2012
Complete Anemia Correction Linked With Better Transplant Outcomes CME
Medscape Education Clinical Briefs, January 4, 2012
CMS Programs Promoting Healthcare System Change Begin to Show Results CME
Medscape Education Clinical Briefs, December 21, 2011

Patient Cases

Copied and Pasted and Misdiagnosed (or Cloned Notes and Blind Alleys) CME Poor note quality in an electronic health record resulted in misdiagnosis of septic emboli as hemorrhagic metastases, despite considerable evidence for the correct diagnosis.
American College of Physicians Ethics Case Studies, May 16, 2012
Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies: An Introduction for Physicians, Nurses, and Pharmacists CME/CE
FDA and Medscape Education, May 1, 2012
Clinicians' Duties in the Use of Online Information? CME
Medscape Education Family Medicine, March 2, 2012
Managing Invasive Candidiasis: A Systematic Approach CME/CE
Medscape Education Infectious Diseases, February 23, 2012
Planning Ahead for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma CME
Medscape Education Oncology, December 29, 2011

Knowledge & Practice

Special Report – Year 2: Improving Conditioning for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation CME/CE Experts review studies and new guidelines on HSCT presented at the 2012 BMT Tandem Meetings.
Medscape Education Oncology, April 30, 2012
Lessons Learned in the Clinic: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Innovation in Kidney Transplantation CME/CE
Medscape Education Transplantation , March 22, 2012
Costimulation Blocker Therapy for Transplantation: Translating Research Into Practice CME/CE
Medscape Education Transplantation , December 21, 2011
Prevention of Surgical Fires CME
Medscape Education Family Medicine, December 15, 2011
Posttransplant Viral Infections: Understanding and Managing the Risk CME/CE
Medscape Education Transplantation , November 10, 2011

Journal Articles

Pretransplant Fecal Carriage of ESBLE and Infection After Liver Transplant, France CME A study shows that the epidemiology of ESBLE infections following liver transplantation is more affected by the influx of preoperatively acquired ESBLE isolates into the hospital than by cross-transmission.
Emerging Infectious Diseases, May 16, 2012
Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Final Assessment CME
Emerging Infectious Diseases, May 16, 2012
Reduced-Intensity Conditioning for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant in Primary Immune Deficiencies CME
Expert Review of Clinical Immunology, March 5, 2012

Advisory Board

Scientific Director

Susan L. Smith, MN, PhD

Medscape Staff

Policies and Requirements

CME Department

Special Collections

Advances in the Management of Complement Disorders