Recognizing Waterborne Disease and the Health Effects of Water Pollution

This reference guide provides access to clinically relevant information and specialized educational resources for practicing physicians in several major areas of increasing importance and growing concern among those responsible for protecting public health and water safety, including basics of water safety and protection, evaluation and management of disease resulting from waterborne pathogens, evaluation and management of disease resulting from chemical contaminants, and evaluation and management of water-related disease in susceptible populations and risk communication. CME credit is available through the publisher beginning in August 2008.

A module on “Physician Preparedness for Acts of Water Terrorism” is also available.

Bioterrorism Preparedness Training for LRN Sentinel Laboratories – online course

This modular interactive course has been developed to provide clinical laboratory scientists with information about the laboratory diagnosis of Anthrax, Brucella, Burkholderia, Plague, and Tularemia along with an introduction to the Laboratory Response Network (LRN) and Laboratory Biosecurity. Developed by a team of content experts and information technology personnel from the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) Microbial Disease Laboratory (MDL) with instructional design and project management support from the National Laboratory Training Network (NLTN), the course seeks to assist clinical laboratory scientists to better recognize potential agents of bioterrorism that they might encounter during routine laboratory work-ups of sputum, blood and aspirate/biopsy specimens. Laboratory managers may consider using this course to assess competency of their staff to accurately perform the relevant laboratory procedures and to correctly refer specimens for confirmatory testing.

Free P.A.C.E. CEUs are offered based on 1.5 contact hours per module, for a possible total of 10.5 contact hours.