Meeting the Educational Needs of Health Professionals

Welcome to the University of North Texas Health Science Center Office of Professional and Continuing Education. Our mission is to expertly plan lifelong learning and continuing education activities to meet the needs of medical professionals and researchers, the public health workforce and others who promote health and safety. Our activities are designed to provide the most recent information and strategies to facilitate health promotion, disease prevention and/or encourage understanding of public health issues on local, regional and nationwide levels.

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Improving COPD Outcomes in East Texas

Several COPD risk factors converge in East Texas, resulting in some of the highest rates of preventable hospitalizations in the state. UNT Health Science Center is targeting this area to decrease these rates and improve overall health outcomes related to COPD. For more information and to register for an activity, please click here.

Transitions in Care: A Symposium on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in Adolescents and Young Adults - Saturday, August 16th

Professional and Continuing Education and the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America's North Texas Chapter are working together to educate healthcare providers about IBD in adolescents and young adults. Click here for more information and to register online.

Looking for the Menopause Follow-up Case Form?

If you received Menopause: FACE II FACE follow-up cases in the mail, click here to begin.  After you complete your responses, come back and try our new, online CME activity.

Free Online Activity

Women between 45 & 64 are disproportionately under- and mis- diagnosed for major depression in primary care. PACE's "Practical Strategies for Diagnosing & Treating Depression in Women at Midlife and Beyond" CME and CE series explores barriers and provides practical strategies for identifying MDD and improving care for women at midlife and beyond.

Click here to access the interactive online CME activity (expires 9/12/08)

NEW: Case and Comment Activities

Depression in the Menopausal Transition and Chronic Depression Developed by Claudio Soares, MD, PhD and Alan Podawiltz, DO


Grand Rounds
Wednesdays - 12 to 1 PM
(unless otherwise noted)
For more information call (817)735-2539 or e-email register@hsc.unt.edu
July 23
July 23rd Grand Rounds Canceled
July 30
July 30th Grand Rounds Canceled