Short Self-Paced Courses
INMED Short Self-Paced Courses offer up-to-date, evidence-based learning in international health. These include a pre-test, short videos, engaging images, and post-test. Registration permits indefinite access, however all coursework must be completed and submitted by the end of the month in which you register. All courses are accredited for continuing medical education (CME) credit, with exception of ultrasound. These courses are open to all healthcare professionals and healthcare profession learners.
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Free Demo Short Self-Paced Course
Course Code: SSPC – DEMO 101
This brief course is an opportunity to test-drive the features that characterize all INMED Elective and Professional Certificate Courses. It focuses on international public health, and makes use of interactive questions and short videos. Included is a pre-test, post-test, and evaluation. The INMED Free Demo Online Course requires up to 15 minutes to experience.
Clinical Health Short Self-Paced Courses
Diseases of Poverty, 3rd Edition
$120 | Course Code: SSPC – DIS 401
A plethora of diseases are associated with poverty. This course is designed to equip clinicians to prevent, diagnose and treat those poverty-linked diseases that are most prevalent around the world and also unfamiliar to most healthcare professionals. Included are infectious, chronic and non-infectious diseases. This course requires about ten hours to complete.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of this INMED course learners will be able to:
- Review the most prevalent and generally unfamiliar diseases associated with poverty
- Describe a useful rationale for collecting clinical information and making diagnoses
- Restate the particular challenges of chronic dieases in low-resource settings
- Analyze the utility of syndrome management protocols
Continuing Medical Education
Physicians
Institute for International Medicine is accredited by the Kentucky Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Institute for International Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Launch Date: April 1, 2022
Accreditation Termination Date: April 1, 2025
Other Healthcare Professionals
A certificate of completion indicating the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ will be issued for completing this course. Certificates may be submitted to applicable state boards for recognition.
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HIV Medicine for Limited Resource Settings, 3rd Edition
$72 | Course Code: SSPC – HIV 402
Many developing nations and low-income communities possess both large numbers of HIV-positive citizens and very limited resources with which to respond. HIV management in such settings demands a unique skill set. This course prepares healthcare professionals to lead effective low-resource HIV prevention and intervention. Included is content addressing prevention of mother-to-child transmission, management of pediatric HIV infection, and treatment of opportunistic infections. This course requires about six hours to complete.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Describe the pathogenesis and natural history of HIV infection.
- Identify successful methods of prevention.
- Describe how to prevent HIV mother-to-child transmission (MCTC).
- Identify characteristics of the WHO Clinical Stages.
- List criteria for initiating anti-retroviral therapy (ART).
- Describe management of the leading opportunistic infections.
- Explain important features of HIV care in infants and children.
Continuing Medical Education
Physicians
Institute for International Medicine is accredited by the Kentucky Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Institute for International Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Launch Date: April 1, 2022
Accreditation Termination Date: April 1, 2025
Other Healthcare Professionals
A certificate of completion indicating the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ will be issued for completing this course. Certificates may be submitted to applicable state boards for recognition.
Please view Continuing Medical Information below for more details and disclosures.
Maternal-Newborn Health, 3rd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – MAT 403
Pregnant women and newborns are especially vulnerable to illness and death, and improvements in health services hold great potential to protect them. This course addresses the unique and especially critical issues of maternal-newborn healthcare, including nutrition, prenatal care, obstetrical complications, newborn resuscitation, well-newborn care, and common neonatal diseases. Also highlighted are the important subjects of women’s rights, education, economic stability, and protection from exploitation. This course requires about five hours to complete, and is accredited for five hours of CME.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Explain the progress in maternal-newborn health since 1800.
- List essential principles of prenatal care.
- Describe five common complications of pregnancy and their treatment.
- List three major disabilities that afflict women of childbearing age.
- Explain the social factors that place newborns at risk of death.
- Describe the physiological transition to extrauterine life experienced by newborns.
- List five low-cost ways to improve newborn health.
- Name three profound interventions to empower adolescent women.
Continuing Medical Education
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Ultrasound for Primary Care, 3rd Edition*
$40 | Course Code: SSPC – ULT 404
Quality medical care in low-resource settings is often hampered by lack of objective clinical information. Ultrasound has proven to be a particularly useful technology in such settings, providing vital data to support patient care decision-making. This content provides the didactic preparation for imaging of thyroid, venous and DVT screening, vascular and carotid, abdominal and renal, cardiac and thoracic. This course in ideally followed by a hands-on ultrasound learning experience. This course requires about five hours to complete and, due to production with commercial ultrasound equipment, is not CME accredited.
Public Health Short Self-Paced Courses
International Public Health, 3rd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – IPH 301
International public health is the field devoted to the health improvement of all people – especially those who live on society’s margins. This INMED course is built around the Human Development Index, and emphasizes how health is increased through promotion of literacy and general education, economic development and civil stability, reduction of leading health risk factors, and interventions against leading causes of death and disability. This learning experience requires about five hours to complete.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- List strategies that increase literacy and general education
- Review strategies for successful economic development
- Cite examples of health promotion strategies that reduce leading risk factors
- Analyze strategies that reduce the leading causes of death and disability
Continuing Medical Education
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Cross-Cultural Skills, 3rd Edition
$36 | Course Code: SSPC – CCS 302
Since World War II the globe has experienced an explosion in international trade, immigration and communication. Today’s relationships frequently rely for success upon the ability to engage people of diverse race, tradition, values, worldview, and language. This course addresses the relevance and principles of cross-cultural skills, and their application to health care and international settings. This course requires about three hours to complete.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Describe the nature and influence of cultures
- Review a process of observing, understanding and adjusting to cultural differences
- Explain culturally appropriate healthcare interventions
- Describe principles of managing culture shock, adaptation and reentry
Continuing Medical Education
Physicians
Institute for International Medicine is accredited by the Kentucky Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Institute for International Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Launch Date: April 1, 2022
Accreditation Termination Date: April 1, 2025
Other Healthcare Professionals
A certificate of completion indicating the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ will be issued for completing this course. Certificates may be submitted to applicable state boards for recognition.
Please view Continuing Medical Information below for details and disclosures.
Disaster Management for Limited Resource Settings, 3rd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – DM 303
Natural disasters, workplace violence, terrorism, war, technological failure, and/or economic depression are all among today’s disaster threats. Annually, disasters are the cause for substantial loss of life, quality of life, assets, and productivity. In the last 20 years over 4.4 billion people have been affected by a disaster event(s) and over 1.3 million killed world-wide. Although disasters do not discriminate; they do effect people and communities differently. The world’s most vulnerable typically have less disaster events; but see higher rates of morbidity and mortality from disasters. This course provides an overview for front-line workers to assist in reducing vulnerability in communities and responding to disaster threats. This course requires about five hours to complete.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Define disaster management.
- Review key terms used in disaster management.
- List key players in disaster management.
- Discuss the phases of disaster management.
- Analyze goals and objectives of the four phases of disaster management.
- Prioritize challenges in disaster management.
- Identify your role in disaster management.
- Assess your preparedness and need before responding do disaster events.
- Develop strategies to reduce vulnerability in a community or patient population.
Continuing Medical Education
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Health Leadership for Limited Resource Settings, 3rd Edition
$36 | Course Code: SSPC – HL 304
Health and healthcare are both especially strained in the world’s lowest-income communities. In the face of ever-tightening resources, wise leadership is crucial. Yet few healthcare professionals are well equipped to be leaders. This course describes well-founded health strategies, draws from the experience of major global health initiatives, and outlines the leadership cycle essential to applying effective health leadership in specific settings. This course requires about three hours to complete.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Describe attributes of effective leaders.
- Explain the concept of a health system.
- Describe measures for quality of life.
- Spell out a general strategy for health.
- Describe the major international health initiatives.
- Explain the four cyclical steps of health system leadership.
Continuing Medical Education
Physicians
Institute for International Medicine is accredited by the Kentucky Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Institute for International Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Launch Date: April 1, 2022
Accreditation Termination Date: April 1, 2025
Other Healthcare Professionals
A certificate of completion indicating the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ will be issued for completing this course. Certificates may be submitted to applicable state boards for recognition.
Please view Continuing Medical Information below for details and disclosures.
Health Professions Education, 3rd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – HE 305
Progress in health requires skilled personnel who can apply the appropriate knowledge and resources on behalf of people in need. But intentional transfer of such skill from one healthcare professional to another is frequently inadequate. This Health Profession Education content will equip learners with concepts and methods of effective learning and teaching to improve their ability to equip others to carry forward progress in health. This course requires about five hours to complete.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Express the importance of skill transfer and empowerment
- List modalities to enhance effective learning
- List principles of effective teaching
- Describe evaluation of learning outcomes
- Explain the principles of instructional design
Continuing Medical Education
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Epidemiology Short Self-Paced Courses
Introduction to Epidemiology, 2nd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – INTRO 201
Epidemiology originates from Hippocrates’ observation more than 2000 years ago that environmental factors influence the occurrence of disease. However, it was not until the 19th century that the distribution of disease in specific human population groups was measured to any large extent. This work marked not only the formal beginnings of epidemiology but also some of history’s most spectacular achievements. This course requires about five hours to complete, and is accredited for five hours of CME.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Define the term epidemiology.
- Explain the role of epidemiology within public health.
- Describe some achievements in epidemiology to improve health.
- Explain how epidemiology is relevant to health policy
Continuing Medical Education
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Measuring Health and Disease, 2nd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – MHD 202
Objective measurements of health and disease are fundamental to the practice of epidemiology. To this end, a variety of measures of morbidity and disability are used to characterize the overall health of populations. But population health status is not fully measured in many parts of the world, and significant gaps remain even in high resource nations. This lack of information poses a major challenge for epidemiologists, and subsequently for both policymakers and healthcare practitioners who rely upon such information. This course requires about five hours to complete, and is accredited for five hours of CME. Click here for CME information.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Define the leading measures of health and disease.
- Cite the most credible sources of health information.
- Describe leading health indicators
Continuing Medical Education
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Epidemiology Studies, 2nd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – ES 203
Trustworthy epidemiology relies upon reputable scientific studies. Choosing the appropriate study design is a crucial step in an epidemiological investigation. Each study design has strengths and weaknesses, and epidemiologists must consider all sources of bias and confounding, and strive to reduce them. Throughout such research ethical issues must be carefully considered, as in other scientific disciplines. This course requires about five hours to complete, and is accredited for five hours of CME.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Define the appropriate use of cross-sectional, case-control, and cohort studies.
- Outline the standard design of a randomized controlled trial.
- Describe the major potential errors in epidemiological studies
Continuing Medical Education
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Basic Biostatistics Concepts, 2nd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – BBC 204
Biostatistical concepts and tools are needed for summarizing and analyzing data. This is especially true in epidemiological research, which requires the use of samples to make inferences about entire populations. This content will describe basic concepts and methods, and how to summarize data. Although calculations can be complex, the concepts underlying statistical tests are often quite simple. This course requires about five hours to complete, and is accredited for five hours of CME.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Display statistical information such that it is accurate and understandable.
- Describe the definitions and uses of summary numbers.
- Describe the major tools of statistical inference
Continuing Medical Education
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Causation in Epidemiology, 2nd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – CAUS 205
A major focus of epidemiology is informing efforts to prevent and control disease and promote health. To do this, we need to know the causes of disease or injury and the ways in which these causes can be modified. This content describes the epidemiological approach to causation. This course requires about five hours to complete, and is accredited for five hours of CME.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Describe the concepts of sufficiency and necessity.
- Explain the concept of hierarchy of causes.
- Describe the criteria for judging the evidence of causality.
- Explain the usefulness of meta-analysis
Continuing Medical Education
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Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseases, 2nd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – ENCD 206
Chronic non-communicable diseases are major public health challenges in most countries. In addition to effective treatment, much is already known about these disease, including the fact that primary prevention is the best strategy to control these modern epidemics. Targeting high-risk individuals with secondary and tertiary prevention can also reduce the burden of chronic disease. This course requires about five hours to complete.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Describe the worldwide transition in mortality.
- Explain the levels of prevention.
- Describe the criteria for effective disease screening.
- Present an example of targeted screening.
Continuing Medical Education
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Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases, 2nd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – ECD 207
New communicable diseases regularly emerge, and old ones re-emerge, making them a continuing threat to public health throughout the world. Epidemiological methods make possible effective approaches to the critical responsibilities of surveillance, diagnosis, prevention and control of communicable disease outbreaks. This course requires about five hours to complete.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Describe the global burden of communicable diseases.
- Outline the steps for investigating an epidemic.
- Teach-back the components that make up a chain of infection.
- Describe the potential modes of transmission of an infectious agent.
Continuing Medical Education
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Clinical Epidemiology, 2nd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – CLIN 208
Clinical epidemiology is the application of epidemiological principles and methods to the practice of clinical medicine. It usually involves a study conducted in a clinical setting, most often by clinicians, with patients as the subjects of study. The aim of clinical epidemiology is to aid decision-making about identified cases of disease. This course requires about five hours to complete, and is accredited for five hours of CME.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Describe commonly used definitions of normality and abnormality.
- Explain the natural history and prognosis of disease.
- Explain how accuracy of diagnostic tests is defined.
- Cite examples of how evidence-based guidelines have improved clinical outcomes
Continuing Medical Education
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Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, 2nd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – EOE 209
Most diseases are either caused or influenced by environmental factors. Understanding these is essential to design effective prevention programs. Environmental epidemiology provides a scientific basis for studying and interpreting the relationships between the environment and population health. Occupational epidemiology deals specifically with environmental factors in the workplace. This course requires about five hours to complete.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Describe how environmental factors can be used to establish dose-effect and dose-response relationships.
- Explain how health impact assessments are used to forecast the influence of major human interventions.
- Cite examples of epidemiology used in injury prevention.
Continuing Medical Education
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Health Policy and Planning, 2nd Edition
$60 | Course Code: SSPC – HPP 210
The full value of epidemiology is only realized when it is translated into health policy and the subsequent planning and implementation of disease or injury prevention and control programs. Health policy is essentially a set of decisions about strategic goals for health, and the means for achieving these goals. This course requires about five hours to complete.
Competency Objectives
At the completion of these lessons, learners will be able to:
- Describe the multiple factors influencing health policy.
- Give examples of health promotion topics that enjoy broad consensus.
- Cite commonly used elements in the health planning cycle.
- Describe the STEPwise Framework for Planning.
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Target Audience
This course is broadly designed for healthcare professionals and students of the healthcare professions.
Time Required to Complete Course
Course participants on average should expect approximately 5 hours are required to complete this course and final examination.
Successful Completion
The following are the minimum requirements for successfully completing the course:
- Complete pretest
- Complete all readings and interactive in course content
- Complete post-test with a minimum score of 80%
- Complete evaluation
- Complete course credit claims form if registered for continuing education
Continuing Medical Education
Physicians
Institute for International Medicine is accredited by the Kentucky Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Institute for International Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Launch Date: April 1, 2022
Accreditation Termination Date: April 1, 2025
Other Healthcare Professionals
A certificate of completion indicating the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ will be issued for completing this course. Certificates may be submitted to applicable state boards for recognition.
Disclosures
Planning Committee
| Nicholas Comninellis MD MPH DIMPH | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose |
| Fred Loper MD | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose |
| Leda Rivera | No relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose |
Computing Requirements
The following are the minimum computing requirements for participating this course. Students must have ready access to and be functionally proficient with:
- A personal computer with an up-to-date operating system and ample memory for downloads
- A web browser, preferably the most up-to-date version of Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari
- Applications capable of opening Microsoft Word documents and of viewing PDFs
- An Internet connection, preferably high speed