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PSNet Continuing Education offerings include WebM&M Spotlight Cases and Commentaries, which are certified for Continuing Medical Education/ Continuing Education Units (CME/CEU) and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credit through the University of California, Davis (UCD) Health Office of Continuing Medical Education. 
 

Each WebM&M Spotlight Case and Commentary is certified for the AMA PRA Category 1™ and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) through the American Board of Internal Medicine by the Office of Continuing Medical Education (OCME) at UCD, Health. 
 

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Earn CME or MOC credit and trainee certification by successfully completing quizzes based on Cases & Commentaries. 

  • Individuals have two attempts at each quiz to achieve a passing score of 80% or higher in order to earn credit.
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    • Tough Call: Addressing Errors From Previous Providers
    William Martinez, MD, MS, and Gerald B. Hickson, MD| March 1, 2014
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    • Hospitalized 3 times within 2 months presumably for sepsis, a woman with diabetes on metformin presented to the emergency department with the same set of symptoms as her previous admissions. After reviewing her records, the admitting team determined that the patient's presentation for this and earlier admissions was more consistent with acute lactic acidosis secondary to metformin than sepsis.
    Duty to Disclose Someone Else's Error?
    Thomas H. Gallagher, MD| May 1, 2011
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    • Transferred to a tertiary hospital, a child with severe swelling of the brain is found to have venous sinus thromboses and little chance of survival. Further review revealed that the referring hospital had missed subtle signs of cerebral edema on the initial CT scan days earlier, raising the question of whether to disclose the errors of other facilities or caregivers.
    Bad Writing, Wrong Medication
    Beth Devine, PharmD, MBA, PhD| April 1, 2010
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    • A medication dispensing error causes nausea, sweating, and irregular heartbeat in an elderly man with a history of cardiac arrhythmia. Investigation reveals that the patient was given thyroid replacement medication instead of antiarrhythmic medication.
    Diagnosing HIV-It Doesn't Take a Brain Surgeon
    Roger Chou, MD| May 1, 2008
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    • Head imaging findings for a man admitted following new-onset headaches and a seizure revealed a brain mass. The patient was sent for craniotomy and brain biopsy, which revealed toxoplasmosis, prompting an HIV test that returned positive.
    How Do Providers Recover From Errors?
    Colin P. West, MD, PhD| January 1, 2008
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    • An elderly man with COPD and end-stage congestive heart failure was admitted for increasing shortness of breath, due to a pleural effusion. A resident performed a thoracentesis on the wrong side, and the patient developed a pneumothorax and died. The resident disclosed the error but was devastated.
    Do Not Disturb!
    F. Daniel Duffy, MD; Christine K. Cassel, MD| October 1, 2007
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    • Following surgery, a woman on a patient-controlled analgesia pump is found to be lethargic and incoherent, with a low respiratory rate. The nurse contacted the attending physician, who dismisses the patient's symptoms and chastises the nurse for the late call.
    Failure to Report
    Patrice L. Spath, BA, RHIT| March 1, 2007
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    • An infant receives an overdose of the wrong antibiotic (cephazolin instead of ceftriaxone). The nurse spoke with the ED physician on duty but was informed that the medications were essentially equivalent and did not report the error.
    Moving Pains
    Hildy Schell, RN, MS, CCNS; Robert M. Wachter, MD| July 1, 2006
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    • An elderly woman was transported to CT with no medical escort and an inadequate oxygen supply. She died later that day.
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