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Our online continuing medical education (CME) combines timely, insightful content with the convenience of home or workplace study. Courses are available to anyone wishing to participate. Physicians, nurses, and pharmacists can earn continuing medical education credit by completing the registration form at the beginning of each CME. Other participants can register and obtain a certificate of completion.

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To view a list of archived CMEs click here. These CMEs no longer provide credit but are offered for educational purposes.

 

Course Description: At the end of the course the participant will have a greater knowledge on the history of in vitro embryo culture and embryo transfer, properties of the first embryo culture media and why they worked, the "2-cell block" and media that overcame in vitro blocks to embryo development, functions of components of successful cleavage-stage embryo culture media, osmolarity, media based on mimicking oviductal fluid and current media for culturing human cleavage-stage embryos.
Course Accreditation: This course is not CME-accredited.
Course Description: Participants in this online course will be able to acquire a greater knowledge on usefulness and outcome of techniques used for embryo cryopreservation, procedures employed in IVF for fertility preservation in oncology patients and results of embryo cryoreplacement. Case descriptions in order to provide practical information on management of fertility preservation in oncology patients complete the course.
Course Accreditation: This course is not CME-accredited.
Course Description: In recent years the possible beneficial role of LH supplementation has received increasing attention. This course, starting from the role of LH in the spontaneous cycle, will analyze the major issues related to the implementation of LH supplementation in ART, from patient selection and doses to the time of administration. In reviewing some of the most important studies available on these topics, this course will provide the available data useful to plan ART cycles including LH supplementation. It will also place a particular focus on the best way to select cases that may benefit from this approach.
Course Accreditation: This course is not CME-accredited.
Regulation of Follicle Development and its Clinical Implications

Click here for more information on Regulation of Follicle Development and its Clinical Implications that will take place in Beaune, France on May 23-24, 2008

Presentations

Click here for the presenations from the symposia Gene, Environment, Lifestyle Interaction and Human Reproduction that took place in Malmoe, Sweden, on February 7-9, 2008.

Online Course

New online course: Embryo Cryopreservation. Click here for details.