Continuing Professional Education
CME and Nursing Continuing Education

CME and Nursing Continuing Education

Cincinnati Children’s CME program provides activities with the expectation that knowledge and clinical skills of all participants will be advanced and enhanced, leading to improvements in competence, performance and patient outcomes. CME activities and services provided include organizing, promoting, and presenting CME via a variety of formats (lecture, series, conferences, symposiums, webcasts, and online archives) for physicians, APRN’s and other health care providers. 

Cincinnati Children's is also an approved provider of nursing contact hours.

CME Offerings

Advanced Pharmacy Series for Prescribers Educational Objectives:

1. Acquire knowledge based on diagnosis and management of selected pediatric conditions
2. Discuss the diagnostic approach and treatment of a variety of pediatric patients
3. Explain the clinical efficacy of medications used to treat a variety of pediatric conditions

Sample topics include:

  • Immunizations Across the Lifespan
  • Pediatric TPN Writing for Prescribers
  • Multivitamins

View a list of online presentations or search by topic.

ADHD is the most common behavioral disorder among elementary school age children. This series of lectures will help practitioners better evaluate, diagnosis, and treat the ADHD patient.

Sample topics include:

  • Diagnosis of Children with Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
  • Anxiety Disorders and ADHD
  • ADHD Across the Life Span

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Quarterly community lectures designed to provide continuing education to general practice pediatricians.

Sample topics include:

  • Emergent Care of the Pediatric Burn Patient
  • Supporting the Breastfeeding Dyad in the Pediatrician's Office
  • What's New with Learning Disabilities?

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Office for Faculty Development Seminar Series Objectives:

1. Identify skills that will help them achieve reappointment, promotion, and tenure
2. Improve work-life balance and job satisfaction
3. Improve team-building and collaborative skills

Sample topics include:

  • Philanthropic Support for Grants and Programs
  • Mentorship: The Wind Beneath Your Academic Wings
  • Email Survival Skills 

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A collection of videos relevant to general pediatric practice, not attached to a specific series or grand rounds.

Sample topics include:

  • Radiology for the Primary Provider - Chest X-Rays
  • Pediatric Update
  • Transitioning to Total Cost Accounting
  • Imaging the Pediatric Head and Neck

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HSR Matrix Speaker Series Objectives:

1. Describe innovative ideas that can inform healthcare research and practice
2. Synthesize new health services research and build connections relevant to their work

Sample topics include:

  • Taking Meaningful Action to Address Health Disparities
  • Patient Centered Care – Reclaiming the Patient’s Interest as our Goal
  • Perspectives on the Changing Healthcare System

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The Center for Professional Excellence/Education collaborated with the Center for Better Health and Nutrition at Cincinnati Children's to present "Obesity and BMI: Confronting the Epidemic" on April 19, 2011. The presentation by Robert Siegel, MD and Jenny Sweeney, CPNP, was recorded and is now available to the public as a part of our continuing effort to inform and educate the communities we serve.

*Nursing contact hours are not available for the online viewing of this presentation.

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Questions regarding this program may be directed to Jill Guilfoile at jill.guilfoile@cchmc.org

Cincinnati Children's is one of the largest pediatric hospital-based trauma services in the United States and a leader in improving the care for injured children from prevention to recovery. The CCIC Trauma Series will assist the trauma care team using a multi-disciplinary approach to provide the most up-to-date information on all aspects of trauma care to foster positive patient outcomes.

Trauma CCIC Lecture Series Objectives:

1. Integrate current treatment guidelines in the care of the trauma patient from resuscitation through rehabilitation
2. Employ concepts of injury prevention strategies to hospital and community education.

Sample topics include:

  • Hyperosmolar Therapy and Pediatric DVT after TBI
  • Blast Injuries
  • Long-term Outcomes of Early Childhood Brain Injury

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Nursing Continuing Education

This is a monthly, one-hour program with content specific for Ohio, designed for the advanced practice nurse with prescriptive authority.

Sample topics include:

  • Ohio Law and Rules for APRNs- 2014
  • Antibiotic Locks in the Treatment of Central Venous Line Infections
  • Common Cardiovascular Medications Used in Infants and Children

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Residencies, Fellowships, Student and Grad Programs

Looking for information about our world class professional education programs? Learn more about all we have to offer. 
Cincinnati Children's is also an approved provider of nursing contact hours.