Available until December 31, 2023 - Online CME Course

The Mayo Clinic Applied Quality Essentials is a learning and self-assessment activity and aims to evaluate the physician’s knowledge in quality improvement concepts and methods. There are no prerequisites for this course. The module is offered as an online 30-question pre-test (Test A) and 30-question post-test (Test B). Test A and Test B versions each contain 30 distinct questions but will test to the same curriculum and can be taken as open book tests. Education credit will be awarded if the participant achieves a score ≥80% correct answers on the pre-test or post-test (two chances allowed). The learner’s choices along with the correct responses for each question will be provided at the conclusion of the test as well as an overall performance score and the rationale for the correct answer and/or relevant references to educational content.

Available until September 15, 2024

This is an online course recommended for primary care providers. The course combines Mayo Clinic Talks podcast interviews about common musculoskeletal injuries and their clinical presentations with video demonstrations of joint exams as performed by Mayo Clinic orthopedic specialists.

Available until January 1, 2025 - Online CME Course

Available until June 1, 2025 - Online CME Course

Join cardiac rehabilitation experts for a comprehensive review of program fundamentals including program structure and management, secondary cardiovascular disease prevention, and new trends in CR. Program topics will provide details to ensure patients receive the highest, most-up-to-date quality of care and achieve the best possible outcomes. These self-study materials will provide an overview for health professionals new to cardiac rehabilitation, or those wanting to update their existing program, based on the experience of Mayo Clinic, Rochester.

Available until February 1, 2026

Pulmonary function tests are extremely useful in both diagnosing and managing patients with respiratory disease. In addition to a medical history, physical exam and imaging studies, they give us a great deal of information of the pulmonary physiology and help us understand why patients have various respiratory symptoms. However, there are quite a number of pulmonary function tests available to us and which tests we should order can be confusing. Do we know when spirometry, lung volumes or diffusion capacity will be useful for evaluating the various pulmonary conditions? Our guest for this podcast is Dr. Alexander Niven, from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Mayo Clinic and he’ll provide answers to these questions and more as we discuss “How to Use Pulmonary Function Tests Effectively”.