Practical Reviews

Overview

Simple, Actionable, Easy CME — Free App Included!

Practical Reviews is just that — practical, expert reviews of the most significant articles from the top medical journals. This time-saving information management tool helps you understand what’s relevant to your practice, and keeps you on the cutting edge of patient care. Explore reviews in your specialty plus 18 others. These engaging audio commentaries and written summaries focus on the hottest topics, newest technologies, groundbreaking clinical tests, and more.

Subscribe today, then visit the app store and download Practical Reviews so you can take it with you wherever you go.

A World of Information at Your Fingertips

It takes just 15 minutes to read the summary, listen to the commentary, take a quiz and earn credit. You’ll learn that Practical Reviews is:

• Concise. Our 200+ physician panel covering 19 specialties delivers monthly audio and text commentary, clinical tips and informative article summaries from leading journals.
• Convenient. With our powerful free app, you can access Practical Reviews on the road, during workouts, between patients — where and when it’s easiest for you.
• Cost-Effective. An affordable solution to earning AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™
• Critical Knowledge. A searchable database of more than 125,000 summaries, often enhanced with images, highlighting what you need to know now.

A subscription to Practical Reviews includes access to our online database, audio, PDF abstracts and quizzes, not to mention the free app. 

Specialties

Select your specialty to see the faculty and journals used to create this continuing medical and dental education content.

Accreditation

Oakstone Publishing is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Oakstone Publishing is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.

ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at CCEPR.ADA.org.

Financial Disclosures

Oakstone Publishing has assessed all relationships with ineligible companies disclosed by faculty, authors, editors, and any individuals who were in a position to control the content of this CDE activity. Any identified relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated. Oakstone Publishing’s planners, content reviewers, and editorial staff disclose no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Method of Participation

To receive credit for this activity, listen to the audio, read the content, and pass the online quiz with a score of 70% or higher, prior to the expiration date. The quiz release and expiration date can be found at the top of each online quiz. Upon passing, you will receive immediate notification of your score.

To obtain credit, the quiz must be successfully completed by the expiration date listed on each activity.

Anesthesiology

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Analyze inhalational, intravenous, regional, and adjuvant agents and techniques.
• Discuss special problems related to specific surgical procedures.
• Identify controversies, advantages, and disadvantages of anesthetic protocols.
• Discuss the latest basic science findings and the impact of these on clinical problems.

Intended Audience: Anesthesiologists, surgeons, and others interested in anesthesiology.

Cardiology

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Discuss controversies, advantages, and disadvantages of specific diagnostic and treatment plans, including pharmaceutical and surgical options.
• Apply reviews of the latest basic science findings and predict the impact of these on clinical problems.
• Identify where controversy exists and, with our distinguished editorial board of physicians, appraise the evidence and assess advantages and disadvantages of cardiologic protocols.

Intended Audience: Cardiologists and others interested in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Critical Care Medicine

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Appraise current and clinically useful information, then apply the most effective strategies and advances as they diagnose and treat in the intensive care unit.
• Explain evidence of the safety and efficacy of certain procedures.
• Evaluate where controversy exists and, with our distinguished editorial board of physicians, appraise the evidence and assess advantages and disadvantages of diagnostic and treatment plans.
• Integrate non-conventional principles and practices with conventional ones, while they select and employ the best of all available courses of treatment.
• Discuss the latest basic science findings and their potential impact on clinical problems.

Intended Audience: Physicians and nurses interested in the treatment of critically ill patients.

Dermatology

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Appraise current and clinically useful information, then apply the most effective strategies and advances in the care of normal skin and in the diagnosis and treatment of dermatologic disease.
• Explain evidence of the safety and efficacy of certain procedures.
• Evaluate where controversy exists, appraise the evidence, and assess advantages and disadvantages of the methods in question.
• Integrate non-conventional principles and practices with conventional ones, selecting and employing the best of all available courses of treatment.
• Discuss the latest basic science findings and their potential impact on clinical problems.

Intended Audience: Dermatologists and others interested in the diagnosis and treatment of dermatologic diseases and care of the normal skin.

Family Medicine

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Explain evidence of the safety and efficacy of certain procedures.
• Appraise the evidence and assess advantages and disadvantages of the methods in question.
• Integrate non-conventional principles and practices with conventional ones, while selecting and using the best of all available courses of treatment.
• Discuss the latest basic science findings and their impact on clinical problems.

Intended Audience: Family physicians and others interested in family medicine.

Gastroenterology

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Explain evidence of the safety and efficacy of certain procedures.
• Evaluate where controversy exists, appraise the evidence, and assess advantages and disadvantages of the methods in question.
• Discuss controversies, advantages and disadvantages of diagnostic and treatment plans.
• Integrate non-conventional principles and practices with conventional ones, selecting and employing the best of all available courses of treatment.
• Discuss the latest basic science findings and their potential impact on clinical problems.

Intended Audience: Gastroenterologists and others interested in the diagnosis and treatment of gastro­intestinal diseases.

General Surgery

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Discuss the basics of surgical physiology and critical care.
• Explain evidence-based general procedures in pediatric, thoracic, gynecologic, and urologic surgery.
• Summarize the latest advances in anesthesia for pain management.
• Integrate non-conventional principles and practices with conventional surgical procedures.
• Discuss the latest basic science findings and their potential impact on clinical problems.

Intended Audience: General surgeons and others interested in the diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases.

Hospital Medicine

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Interpret the current medical literature as it relates to hospital medicine.
• Identify key patient safety issues.
• Identify key ethical issues facing hospitalists.
• Apply the concepts surrounding a key clinical topic in practice.
• Manage hospital length of stay.

Intended Audience: Hospitalists and others interested in education about the practice of hospital medicine.

Internal Medicine

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• IDescribe recent advances in diagnosis and management in the field of internal medicine.
• Evaluate the scientific literature in internal medicine with respect to study design and interpretation of results.
• Identify and incorporate new scientific advances into clinical practice as appropriate.

Intended Audience: Internists and others interested in the diagnosis and treatment of internal medicine disorders.

Neurology

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Summarize the most current literature as it pertains to strategies and advances in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the human central and peripheral nervous systems and skeletal muscle.
• Identify controversies, advantages, and disadvantages of diagnosis and treatment plans.
• Identify the most clinically important information and perspectives presented.

Intended Audience: Neurologists and others interested in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerve, and muscle.

Neurosurgery

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Identify evidence of the safety and efficacy of neurosurgical approaches to treatment.
• Examine the most current and clinically useful information available in strategies and advances in diagnosis and treatment in the neurosurgery care unit.
• Interpret reviews of the latest basic science findings and the impact of these on clinical situations.
• Distinguish current controversies and discuss the medical evidence, advantages, and disadvantages of the method in question.

Intended Audience: Neurosurgeons and others interested in neurosurgery.

Ophthalmology

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Evaluate evidence of the safety and efficacy of such approaches.
• Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of diagnosis and treatment plans for disorders.
• Integrate non-conventional principles and practices with conventional practices.
• Review and critically analyze the most current and clinically useful information available in diagnosis and treatment.

Intended Audience: Ophthalmologists and others interested in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye.

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Discuss current trends in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the facial structures and oral cavity.
• Describe significant clinical developments and advances in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and trauma to the facial structures and oral cavity.
• Interpret advantages and disadvantages of new dentoalveolar, orthognathic, preprosthetic, and temporomandibular surgical techniques as presented in the current literature.

Intended Audience: This educational activity was designed for practicing oral and maxillofacial surgeons, residents, and fellows.

Orthodontics

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Provide orthodontists with an understanding, overview, and critical analysis of the most current and clinically useful information available in the literature related to orthodontics.
• Read reviews of the latest basic scientific findings and the impact of these on clinical problems, as well as concise, targeted lectures by noted specialists on the most important practice-oriented subjects in these areas.
• Evaluate where controversy exists and, with our distinguished editorial board of orthodontists, examine the evidence and present advantages and disadvantages of the method in question. Also, controversies, advantages, and disadvantages of diagnosis and treatment plans will be emphasized.
• Find useful guidance on integrating non-conventional principles and practices with conventional ones — and learn how to select and use the best of all available approaches.
• Expand upon, reinforce, and give additional perspective to the participant’s own regular journal review.
• After completing each issue’s activity, the participant is expected to have a working familiarity with the most clinically important information gleaned from the articles reviewed.

Intended Audience: Orthodontists and others interested in orthodontics.

Otolaryngology

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Discuss the structural anatomy of the head and neck.
• List and assess diagnostic procedures in otolaryngology.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of specific pharmaceutical and surgical procedures.
• Summarize habilitation and rehabilitation.
• Evaluate plastic and reconstructive surgical procedures.
• Identify diseases, disorders, and conditions specific to otolaryngology.

Intended Audience: Otolaryngologists, head and neck surgeons and others interested in otolaryngology and head and neck surgery.

Pathology

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Analyze the most current, clinically useful information available in the monthly journal literature covering both anatomic and clinical pathology.
• Discuss advances in the pathologic diagnosis of disease entities including diseases of the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, respiratory, nervous, reproductive, reticuloendothelial-hematopoietic and integumentary systems.
• Evaluate where controversy exists in pathology.
• Discuss the latest basic science findings and their potential impact on clinical problems.

Intended Audience: Pathologists and others interested in anatomic and clinical pathology.

Psychiatry

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Analyze strengths, obstacles, and controversies in the research findings discussed.
• Interpret the latest science findings and their impact on clinical practice.

Intended Audience: Psychiatrists and others interested in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Radiology

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Discuss controversies, advantages and disadvantages of various modalities, including conventional radiography, MRI and CT, ultrasound, special procedures and interventional techniques.
• Interpret reviews of the latest basic science findings and the impact of these on clinical problems.
• Contrast non-conventional and conventional principles and practices and identify the best approach.
• Demonstrate a working familiarity with the most important information and perspectives presented, and generally should be able to apply in practice the information supplied.
• Examine evidence of the safety and efficacy of such approaches.

Intended Audience: Radiologists and others interested in imaging and diagnostic radiology.

Urology

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

• Discuss controversial procedures in urology.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of common diagnosis and treatment procedures.
• Evaluate non-conventional principles and practices with conventional principles and practices.
• Discuss the latest basic science findings in urology and their potential impact on clinical problems.
• Describe the latest evidence-based medical procedures and methodologies in Urology.

Intended Audience: Urologists and Residents-in-Training interested in urology.

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Designation for Practical Reviews per Issue: Oakstone Publishing designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Oakstone Publishing designates this activity for 3 continuing education credits per issue.

Each issue is released monthly, and the credit is valid for 36 months from the date of release. The exact release and expire dates will be listed on each issue.

Estimated time to complete each issue: 3 hours.

This material is also eligible for 3 credit hours in Category 2-B of the Continuing Medical Education Program of the American Osteopathic Association, provided it is completed in its entirety.

Designation for Practical Reviews per Review: Oakstone Publishing designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Oakstone Publishing designates this activity for 0.25 continuing education credits per review.

Estimated time to complete each issue: 15 minutes.

This material is also eligible for 0.25 credit hours in Category 2-B of the Continuing Medical Education Program of the American Osteopathic Association, provided it is completed in its entirety.

Each issue is released monthly, and the credit is valid for 36 months from the date of release. The exact release and expire dates will be listed on each issue.

Refund Policy

Due to the nature of this offer, no refund request will be accepted.

Disclaimer

The opinions and recommendations expressed by the editorial advisors and other experts whose input is included in this program are their own. This enduring material is produced for educational purposes only. Use of the Oakstone Publishing name implies review of educational format design and approach. Please review the complete prescribing information of specific drugs or combinations of drugs, including indications, contraindications, warnings, and adverse effects, before administering pharmacologic therapy to patients.