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Given below are schedules of CME/CPD events and web addresses of institutions or organizations that function as CME/CPD providers external to the MPC Program of Kuwait. Additionally, some Internet sites that offer lessons on selected topics are listed. They may enable practitioners to receive credit approved by different CME/CPD authorities. If CME/CPD credits obtained through these sites are included within the credit totals under the MPC Program, the CME Center would decide on a case by case basis whether they could be accepted.

The listing of the sites below is for information only. It should not be perceived as recommendation of the quality or endorsement by the CME Center.

Nursing

www.arcmesa.org/
ArcMesa Educators is a continuing education provi-der for physicians, physician assistants, dentists, dental hygienists, nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, diabetes educators, and radiology technologists.
The web site delivers continuing education courses online. Online testing with immediate grading and certification is available. The site also provides live online programs in which the content dealt with could be archived for later review. The materials may be read online or downloaded as pdf files for use later.

www.mdchoice.com
MDChoice.com is a site that contains clinical images x-rays, CT scans etc. Previously the EMBBS. MDchoice.com is a useful Medicine and Health Portal and provides free access to the online, physician-reviewed information. A series of articles in emergency medicine is available. Interactive education is presented in the form of PhotoRounds, ECG Rounds, CyberPatient Simulation, Radiology Rounds and Pediatric Radiology.

www.bnn-online.co.uk/
BNN - British Nursing News Online
This site offers nursing news from the UK and around the world. This site is fully searchable and updated daily.

www.internurse.com/
The internurse.com library has an archive of over 9000 articles. The site offers two levels of searches: basic and advanced. For the reader who knows what exactly he or she is looking for, the table of contents of the journal is good starting point. Searching can be narrowed by selecting a section from the drop-down menu.

www.emedine.com/
Emergency Medicine is a useful resource of online text dealing with major medical emergencies.

www.resurg.org.uk
Resuscitation Council (UK)
The latest guidelines for resuscitation in the UK May 1999 update for Cardiac resuscitation and July 1999 for treatment of anaphylactic shock are available at this site.

www.tagish.org.uk/
Tagish is a site that offers a directory of trusts and health authorities details, including addresses and phone numbers. A number of links to other sites is available.

www.cb-training.com/
Charles Bloe Training is an organization that provides a range of clinical updates for allied health professionals, nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals. The courses are presented by a team of highly qualified nurses, all of whom maintain clinical posts and are leading experts in their fields. The CME offered has been awarded academic accreditation via Glasgow Caledonian University.

www.mentalhealth.com
Internet Mental Health
This is a Canadian-based mental health website. It contains a large number of links to other mental health sites .

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez
PubMed
This site offers free access to the Medline plus many other databases via the National Library of Medicine (NLM).