CME Mission Statement
The provision of quality CME is a primary mission of the American Headache Society®. The Society's educational objectives are to continue to improve the knowledge, skills and professional performance of physicians, psychologists and other health professionals in the care of patients with head, neck and orofacial pain by:
- Providing a forum for presentation of free scientific communication on research and clinical practice
- Providing educational symposia
- Improving education in medical schools and residency programs
- Identifying and developing new educational initiatives
- Supporting education programs directed to people with head, neck and orofacial pain
- Maintaining strict adherence to ACCME guidelines
- Developing educational activities and tools that are designed, and then evaluated, for their role in improving the learners’ competence, performance and the overall quality and safety of the care they give to individuals suffering from head, neck and orofacial pain.
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All programs will be available to participants for a period of one year. If you have any questions regarding this CME website, please contact the American Headache Society® headquarters via email (ahshq@talley.com) or by phone (856-423-0043).
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Available Courses
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Behavioral Tools You Can Use, Parts 1 & 2 At the completion of this presentation, participants should be able to: 1. Identify psychiatric comorbidities of chronic and episodic migraine 2. Discuss clinical and prognostic significance of psychiatric comorbidities of migraine 3. Describe tools for screening and assessment of psychiatric comorbidities of migraine in clinical practice 4. Recognize why communication is essential to headache management 5. Practice the Ask-Tell-Ask method of interviewing patients 6. Describe motivational interviewing strategies 7. Discuss strategies to encourage internal locus of control in patients with migraine  |
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Chronic Migraine Education Program (CMEP) This program is designed to help clarify the diagnostic criteria and differential diagnosis of chronic migraine and provide clinicians with evidence-based treatment strategies for chronic migraine and other forms of chronic daily headache. This initiative supports the mission of AHS, which includes advancing the science and optimizing the management of migraine and related disorders by promoting scientific discovery, education and effective communication. |
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Optimizing Treatment for Chronic Migraine, Part 2: Focus on Acute Treatment At the completion of this presentation, participants will be able to 1. Describe how medication overuse associated with chronic migraine is defined, identified, and managed 2. Identify the options for acute pharmacotherapy of chronic migraine 3. Discuss treatment considerations that apply specifically to the use of acute therapy in the setting of chronic migraine 4. Discuss approaches to address failure of acute treatment |
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Optimizing Treatment of Chronic Migraine, Part 1: Focus on Preventive Treatment At the completion of this presentation, participants will be able to: 1. Identify the principles and objectives of preventive treatment in the management of chronic migraine 2. Discuss the published evidence for the preventive treatment of chronic migraine 3. Discuss approaches to address failure of preventive treatment |
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Primary Headaches You Shouldn't Miss At the completion of this presentation, participants should be able to 1. Discuss diagnostic criteria for less common primary headache types (i.e., other than migraine and tension-type) 2. Describe how the less common primary headache types are diagnosed in clinical practice 3. Identify appropriate treatments for the less common primary headache types |
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Secondary Headaches You Shouldn't Miss At the completion of this presentation, participants will be able to 1. Describe how secondary headaches are identified 2. Discuss specific red flags that suggest the presence of secondary headache 3. Identify secondary headaches that may mimic chronic migraine |
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What to Do When Treatment Fails At the conclusion of this presentation, participants should be able to: 1. Identify common reasons for treatment failure in headache 2. Implement approaches to identifying causes of intractable headaches 3. Discuss pharmacologic and behavioral approaches to successful management of intractable headaches |
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