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CMDA Learning Center 101

This course is available for those who would like a brief demonstration and overview of the CMDA Learning Center. This demonstration course helps you become more...

NATCON | Leadership in Action

Sally Knox, MD, FACS: Leadership in healthcare has become a popular buzz-word and discussion topic, but what does it really look like? This course is designed to add...

NATCON | When and How to Transition From Your Medical Career

Gene Rudd, MD: There are data to show that some physicians continue to practice longer than they should. There are anecdotal stories of physicians who discontinued...

NATCON | Leadership in Medicine

Daniel Rahn, MD: This course focuses on the essential qualifications for clinician leadership in healthcare organizations. The challenges faced by the U.S. healthcare...

NATCON | Health Inequity: Causes and Possible Solutions

Daniel Rahn, MD: It is well documented that zip code has a larger impact on health in the United States than genetic code. Poverty, poor education, minority ethnicity,...

NATCON | Marijuana: An Honest Look at the World’s Most Misunderstood Weed

James Avery, MD: People, including physicians and nurses, often have strong opinions about marijuana and these opinions, at times, can obscure the scientific...

NATCON | Leading in a Worldly Environment

Ruth Bolton, MD: Leading as a Christian healthcare provider seems like a challenging and potentially impossible task. But God has a plan.

NATCON | The Life and Death of Soteria Family Health Center

Ruth Bolton, MD: Leading is never easy, but in my many years of healthcare service, some of my most poignant moments in life occurred in my time at Soteria Family...

NATCON | The Ten Commandments of Tooth Removal

Jonathan Spenn, DMD: Exodontia is one of the most basic needs among patient populations, especially the underserved. This lecture will serve to educate, empower, and...

NATCON | Timeless Principles of Dental Practice Management

William Griffin, DDS: Running a dental practice has become far more difficult in recent years. Increased regulations and the ever-growing body of scientific knowledge...

NATCON | Best Practices on a Short-Term Medical Mission

Patricia Burgess, MD: This course will discuss the basics of doing short-term medical missions well. Best practices and standards of excellence in short-term...

NATCON | Looking Up: Discovering a Heart of Leadership

Explore lessons learned from experiences through medical school, residency, fellowship, and the first year of practice from a young faculty perspective. This session...

NATCON | Protecting Conscience and Religious Freedom in HHS

William Estrada, Esq.: If you have ever wondered how the Department of Health and Human Services works with conscience and faith issues, this course will outline the...

Rights of Conscience and the Practice of Medicine

Scott Rae, MA, ThM, PhD: What’s at issue in this discussion is the right of physicians to exercise their right of conscience in two primary areas related to conflicts...

Contending Conscientiously for Good Medicine

Farr Curlin, MD: What should a clinician do when a patient asks for a legal medical intervention to which the physician has a religious or other moral objection? Many...