Online Education
On-Demand Courses
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The following courses are certified for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM and located within the UC Learning Center.
PAPR Use for Endotracheal Intubation for the COVID-19 Patient
Presented By: Dr. Ian Julie, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine; and Monica Forbes, RN, Emergency Medicine
UC Davis COVID-19 Diagnostics: A review of testing methods and best practices
Presented By: Dr. Larissa May, Director, Department of Emergency Medicine and Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship; and Dr. Nam Tran, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Respiratory Failure and COVID-19
Presented By: Dr. Rod Fontenette, Emergency Medicine/Critical Care Medicine Physician
Basic Ventilator Management
Presented By: Dr. Matthew Greer, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Ventilator Management of Severe Hypoxic Respiratory Failure
Presented By: Dr. Matthew Greer, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Fundamentals of Infection Prevention During Covid-19 Pandemic at UC Davis Health
Presented By: Dr. Larissa May, Director, Department of Emergency Medicine and Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship; and Dr. Scott Crabtree, Assistant Clinical Professor, Infectious Disease
COVID-19 and Cardiology: An Ongoing Saga
Presented By: Dr. Moosa Haider, Cardiology
Surveillance for Potential Nervous System Correlations with SARS-CoV-2
Presented By: Dr. Luhua Wei, Visiting Fellow, Department of Neurology
COVID-19: Understanding a Pandemic
Presented By: Sandhya Venugopal, M.D., Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education; Dean Blumberg, M.D., Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases; and Paul Aronowitz, M.D., Clerkship Director of Internal Medicine
Clinical Experience Treating COVID-19 in New York City
Presented By: Eric Gross, M.D.; Nick Sawyer, M.D., M.B.A.; Matt Greer, M.D.; David Schatz, M.D.; Alex Schmalz, M.D., M.P.H.; Conor McWade, M.D., M.P.H.
COVID-19 for the Clinicians
Presented By: Archana Maniar, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine
Hospital Medicine: Introduction to Basic Management of the COVID-19 Patient
Presented By: Theresa Duong, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine
Hospital Medicine: Complications of Severe COVID-19 Disease
Presented By: Theresa Duong, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine
The following courses are certified for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM and can be used in any combination to meet the new 2023 DEA requirement. All courses are offered at no charge.
The UC Davis Pain Management Modules are only available to UC Davis Health employees. Sign-in to the UC Learning Center to access the individual course modules.
The following courses are located in the CME California Learning Management System. Once on the main page of the learning mangement system, use the search feature for the title of each course.
UC Davis Financial Literacy for Faculty
The UC Davis Financial Literacy for Faculty Series is only available to UC Davis Health employees. Sign-in to the UC Learning Center to access the individual course modules.
- Module 1: Financial Literacy: Understanding Healthcare Financing
- Module 2: Funds Flow
Through this engaging course, which incorporates case studies and clinical support tools within Epic, learners identify gaps in practice and how to apply a valuable new insulin order-set. Participants will also learn the most recent standards of care published by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) on inpatient diabetes/hyperglycemia management and how to apply them in practice, in addition to being provided with adjunct support materials such as pocket reference guides.
Two modules for Glycemic Care Quality Improvement are available to UC Davis Health professionals through the UC Learning Center:
Human Trafficking — Training for Healthcare Providers
This one-hour course is designed for health care providers who want to learn more about human trafficking, which involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. At the end of the course, learners will be able to describe trauma-informed care, identify five red flags and/or risk factors for human trafficking, identify two conversation starters to discuss human trafficking with patients, and access resources when trafficking is suspected.
This course is only available to UC Davis Health employees. Sign-in to the UC Learning Center to access the course module.
This series of four modules is produced in conjunction with California BRIDGE. The goal of this series is to educate inpatient physicians on the identification, treatment, and follow up needs for patients with opioid use disorder.
UC Davis Pain Management Series: Pain Management and the Appropriate Care and Treatment of the Terminally Ill
The UC Davis Pain Management Series is only available to UC Davis Health employees. Sign-in to the UC Learning Center to access the individual course modules.
- Module 1: Responsible Opioid Prescribing
- Module 2: Opioid Agreement and Consent and Urine Drug Testing
- Module 3: Strategies for Managing the Patient with Pain and Addiction
- Module 4: Spinal Imaging for the Patient in Pain
- Module 5: Non-Surgical Interventional Therapies for Spine Pain
- Module 6: Spine Surgery and Who Needs It. Surgery for Spinal Degenerative Disease
- Module 7: Understanding and Treating Neuropathic Pain
- Module 8: Fibromyalgia and Myofascial Pain
- Module 9: Cancer Pain Management and Supportive Care
- Module 10: Approaches to Pediatric Pain Management
- Module 11:"AMPS" - A Quick, Effective Approach to the Psychiatric Assessment in the Pain Clinic
- Module 12: End of Life: Pain Management and Supportive Care
UC Davis Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Series
The UC Davis Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Series is only available to UC Davis Health employees. Sign-in to the UC Learning Center to access the individual course modules.
- Module 1: Provider Performed Microscopy : Wet Mount - Saline
- Module 2: Provider Performed Microscopy: (KOH) Skin, Hair, Nail and Vaginal Preparations
- Module 3: Provider Performed Microscopy: Urine Microscopic, Urine Sediment Module
- Module 4: Provider Performed Microscopy: Fern Test, Vaginal Fluid (Amniotic Fluid Crystallization Test)
UC Davis Health’s Regional Affiliations and Outreach department, in collaboration with UC Davis Children’s Hospital and the Office of Continuing Medical Education, offers the Pediatric Acute Care Education Sessions (PACES) program for community clinicians who provide care to children.
Race and Medicine in Clinical Practice
During this course, clinicians will learn how to define race, racism and anti-racism, distinguish race as a social construct, and identify methods of practicing anti-racism in medicine.
Acute Seizure Management
Improve care of patients with active seizures using a standardized guideline based on evidence-based science. The goal of the course is to increase the comfort level of healthcare teams managing patients with seizures or suspected seizures, and to optimize the interdisciplinary teamwork required to provide effective patient care.
Taking Care of Patients with Serious Illness Program
The UC Davis Serious Illness Program Series is only available to UC Davis Health employees. Sign-in to the UC Learning Center to access the individual course modules.
- Module 1: Advanced Care Planning 101
- Module 2: Palliative Care 101
- Module 3: Serious Illness Communication
UC Davis Precision Interprofessional Neurologic Educational Learning (PINECLE) Program
The UC Davis PINECLE Program combines teaching at a patient's bedside, simulation education, and online educational videos and modules to teach learners how to conduct a neurological examination, with a particular focus on stroke patients. It is only available to UC Davis Health employees. Sign-in to the UC Learning Center to access the individual course modules.
- Module 1: Assessment of Consciousness/Orientation
- Module 2: Language Assessment for Aphasia
- Module 3: Eye Movement
- Module 4: Facial Strength Testing
- Module 5: Arm and Leg Strength Testing
- Module 6: Sensation Testing
- Module 7: Coordination Testing of Arms and Legs
UC Quits
The purpose of these courses is to provide training on evidence-based tobacco treatment for clinical providers and staff with eight modules to accommodate learner needs and maximize flexibility. These on-demand courses are presented by University of California faculty with over twenty years in experience in tobacco research and integration of tobacco treatments in health care settings.
- Module 1: Top Ten Reasons to Prioritize Tobacco Treatment
- Module 2: The Five A’s of Tobacco Treatment Counseling
- Module 3: Kick It California (formerly California Smokers’ Helpline)
- Module 4: Medications for Smoking Cessation
- Module 5: Reducing Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Children
- Module 6: Vaping and Lung Injury in Young People
- Module 7: Smoking Cessation in the Perioperative Period
- Module 8: Managing Tobacco for Maternal Health
The UC Davis Health Office of Continuing Medical Education is pleased to partner with Graduate Medical Education (GME) to develop a series of on-demand coursework to support clinicians preparing to transition from residency to practice. The following coursework is available to UC Davis Health professionals through the UC Learning Center.
- 12 Tips For Teaching Clinical Reasoning
- Addressing Microaggressions in the Health Professions Learning Environment
- Clinical Microteaching: Breaking It Down
- Conflict Management in Clinical Care
- Professionalism for Faculty and Residents
- Understanding How Stereotype Threat Impacts Health Professions Students
X-ray and the Human Body Series
This series of complimentary courses is aimed at helping learners be aware of the importance of radiation safety as it relates to fluoroscopy practice, as well as help reduce radiation exposure to both patients and operating room personnel during procedures.
- Fluoroscopy in Medicine - Radiation Safety Training
- Radiation Safety in Pain Medicine
- Patient Radiation Safety and Protection in Fluoroscopy Guided Interventional Procedures
- Principles of Safe X-Ray Use and Practical Strategies to Reduce X-Ray Exposure
- Projection X-Ray Imaging - Radiography, Mammography, Fluoroscopy
- Intraoperative fluoroscopy, portable X-Ray, and CT
- Flat-panel detectors: how much better are they?