Dr. Bernard M. Sklar

"But there's enough free stuff out there for a doctor to never have to spend a dime," says psychiatrist and family physician Bernard Sklar, MD, in Berkeley, California, who maintains a Web site listing more than 300 sites for online CME.
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Dr. Bernard Sklar envisions extremely smart EHR programs that could analyze a doctor's practice patterns, such as his adherence to authoritative clinical guidelines, and then suggest what he should study. "That would be the Holy Grail," he says.

Bernard M Sklar, MD, MS Resume

... family physician for the Alameda ...

Psychiatrist Bernie Sklar is one of three homeowners renting their places out to the production -- a few child actors are being tutored in his house.

"I'm getting $1,000.I should have asked for $2,000, but I'm starstruck," Sklar admits.

Bernard M. Sklar, MD, spends a lot of time thinking about this.Dr Sklar, a physician turned online CME consultant in Berkeley, Calif, maintains a handy annotated list of CME Web sites at www.cmelist.com.He also compiles statistics about the growth of online CME and notes, "There is a disconnect between doctors going online to get medical information and doctors going online to get CME credits."

When Dr Sklar started counting in April 1997, he found only 13 sites.Two years later the number had quintupled and by December 2000, his burgeoning database included 150 sites with 3510 activities, totaling about 5500 credit hours.The substantial growth continued unabated through his December 2002 study, in which the numbers reached 229 sites with 11,485 activities and totaling 19,105 hours.
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According to Dr Sklar, 53 percent of sites are free and another 21 percent charge $10 or less per hour.
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Sites that combine CME with relevant content, Dr Sklar says, may be more appealing to physicians."The key is to make it meaningful," he says.

Bernard M. Sklar, MD, MS, a psychiatrist with the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services in Oakland, Calif., and an expert in online continuing medical education.

Bernard M. Sklar, MD, MS, a psychiatrist with the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services in Oakland, Calif., and an expert in online continuing medical education.

Bernard M. Sklar, M.D., M.S., is a physician who has segued into medical informatics and is doing his Masters thesis on Online Continuing Medical Education.He has created an excellent free comprehensive guide to online courses for various areas of the medical profession.

Psychiatrist: Bernard Sklar, M.D., M. S., Board Certified in Psychiatry and Family Medicine