
What My Mistakes Taught Me is a truly unique and illuminating online CME program. In 22 one-hour lectures, physicians from different areas of medicine and surgery discuss the expertise they’ve gained from problems, mistakes, and errors in clinical practice.
Led by Martin A. Samuels, MD, these experienced clinicians share case studies and the take-away messages learned from their own medical mishaps, emphasizing that:
Overview of Diagnostic Errors in Clinical Practice – In Pursuit of Diagnostic Excellence - David E. Newman-Toker, MD, PhD
Neurology – What My Mistakes Taught Me - Martin A. Samuels, MD
Infectious Disease – What My Mistakes Have Taught Me - Paul E. Sax, MD
Humanism in the Care of the Advanced Heart Failure Patient - Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD
Mistakes in Rheumatology or What My Mistakes Taught Me - Jonathan S. Coblyn, MD
Lessons from a Pulmonologist in the Frontline - Bartolome R. Celli, MD
What I Would Have Learned from My Mistakes If I Had Made Any - Julian L. Seifter, MD
Going Through Mental Pause: Errors by an Endocrinologist - Carolyn B. Becker, MD
Hematology – Lessons from Our Mistakes - Nancy Berliner, MD
Remove the Blinders – See Something Say Something - Michael D. Apstein, MD, FACG
Psychiatry – What My Mistakes Have Taught Me and Other Lessons - John B. Herman, MD
MRI Imaging Findings – Culprit or Bystander - Zacharia Isaac, MD
Emergency Medicine – Lessons Learned from My Mistakes: Let Me Count the Ways - Jonathan A. Edlow, MD
Learning from Mistakes During a Neurosurgical Career - Edward Raymond Laws, MD
Current Status of Joint Replacement - Thomas S. Thornhill, MD
Patient Experience of Illness and Recovery - Steven D. Rauch, MD
Mistakes are My Legacy – A Tribute to My Mentors Who Helped Me Avoid Catastrophe - Rebecca D. Folkerth, MD
What My Mistakes Have Taught Me – Pain Medicine - Edgar L. Ross, MD
Lemonade and Wisdom – Stepping Stones on the Path to Positive Transformation - Alexander Norbash, MD
Twenty-Five Common Mistakes Made in Daily Clinical Practice - Joseph S. Alpert, MD
Things I Learned in Medical School (and Even Before Medical School) That Were NOT True - Joseph S. Alpert, MD
What I Have Learned from More Than 50 Years of Clinical Medicine - Joseph S. Alpert, MD
Miriam Sydney Joseph Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Founding Chair, Emeritus
Department of Neurology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Professor of Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Tucson, AZ
Editor in Chief
The American Journal of Medicine
Staff Physician
Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Marshall A. Wolf Master Clinician Educator
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
H. Franklin Bunn Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Hematology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Director, Clinical Rheumatology
Director, Center for Arthritis and Joint Diseases
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Department of Emergency Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
City Medical Examiner II (Neuropathologist)
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Clinical Professor of Forensic Medicine
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY
Associate Chief and Trustees Chair of Medical Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Division Chief
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Department of Pain and Spine Care
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Director of Heart Failure and Transplantation
Director of Heart Failure Research
Professor of Medicine
Smidt Heart Institute
Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, CA
Professor of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Professor of Neurology, Otolaryngology,
and Emergency Medicine
Director, Division of Neuro-Visual and
Vestibular Disorders
Director, Armstrong Institute Center
for Diagnostic Excellence
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Professor and Chair of Radiology
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
San Diego, CA
Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Research
Department of Otolaryngology –
Head and Neck Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Chief, Vestibular Division
Member, Neurotology Division
Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Department
Massachusetts Eye & Ear
Boston, MA
Senior Clinician
Pain Management Center
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative
and Pain Medicine
Brigham Health
Mass General Brigham
Associate Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Clinical Director
Division of Infectious Diseases
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Bruce A. and Robert L. Beal Distinguished Chair
in Infectious Diseases
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
James G. Haidas Distinguished Chair in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
John B. and Buckminster Brown Professor
of Orthopaedic Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Chairman Emeritus
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
Oakstone Publishing is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
American Medical Association (AMA)
Oakstone Publishing designates this enduring material for a maximum of 19.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Academy of PAs (AAPA)
AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 19.00 hours of Category I credit for completing this program.
Date of Original Release: July 15, 2021
Date Credits Expire: July 15, 2024
Estimated Time to Complete: 19 hours
CME credit is awarded upon successful completion of a course evaluation and post-test.
At the conclusion of this course, you be able to:
This educational activity is designed for all generalists and specialists interested in learning what physicians from different areas of medicine and surgery have learned from problems, mistakes, and errors in clinical practice.
Provider: Oakstone CME
Course Director:
Martin A. Samuels, MD
Miriam Sydney Joseph
Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Founding Chair, Emeritus
Department of Neurology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Credits: Earn a maximum of 19.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
SKU: MIV416E0