Stroke Education Requirements

The following physician specialties must complete 3 CME credits of stroke education every year:

• Emergency
• Hospitalists
• Intensivists
• Admitting/Attending Primary Care Physicians
• Neurologists
• Neurosurgeons

Options for stroke credits:

• ENLS
• NIHSS
• ASLS
• UpToDate stroke articles - click here to sign in to receive CME.
  • Each article reviewed = 30 minutes CME
  • UpToDate stroke article examples to search for:
    • Intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke: Therapeutic use - UpToDate
    • Overview of thunderclap headache
    • Stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation
    • Initial evaluation and management of transient ischemic attack and minor ischemic stroke
    • Stroke after cardiac catheterization
    • Overview of carotid artery stenting
    • Complications of stroke: An overview
    • Overview of secondary prevention for specific causes of ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack
    • Neuroimaging of acute stroke
    • Approach to reperfusion therapy for acute ischemic stroke
    • Overview of secondary prevention of ischemic stroke
    • Initial assessment and management of acute stroke
    • Mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke
    • Posterior circulation cerebrovascular syndromes
    • Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: Treatment and prognosis
    • Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
    • Stroke associated with patent foramen ovale (PFO): Management
    • Neuropalliative care of stroke
    • Cryptogenic stroke and embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS)
    • Stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation
    • Mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke

Stroke Education Attestation

Click here to fill out and submit the stroke education attestation form.