Lead Poisoning Essentials: Critical Knowledge for Clinicians

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This course includes 6 modules covering key topics on lead poisoning, from Missouri lead statistics and testing requirements to symptoms, case management, and treatment. Each module builds essential knowledge step by step. At the end, you will complete a Final Knowledge Check to review what you’ve learned.

Complete the course and earn
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Lead Poisoning Essentials: Critical Knowledge for Clinicians online course provides Missouri healthcare professionals with comprehensive, evidence-based education on the prevention, detection, and management of childhood lead poisoning.Through six expert-led modules, learners will explore Missouri-specific lead exposure history and legal requirements, recognize the signs and symptoms of lead poisoning, and distinguish between screening and diagnostic testing.The course also covers current state testing mandates, effective family engagement and environmental risk assessments, and clinical protocols for managing elevated blood lead levels, including chelation therapy.Designed to improve patient outcomes and regulatory compliance, the course equips participants with the tools needed to provide informed, culturally sensitive care to at-risk pediatric populations.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

As a result of this educational activity, participants should be better able to:

Apply Missouri-specific lead testing requirements and blood lead level management protocols to improve patient care and compliance with state regulations.
Evaluate the signs, symptoms, and risk factors of childhood lead poisoning to make appropriate screening and diagnostic decisions in clinical practice.
Implement evidence-based strategies for family engagement, environmental risk assessment, and long-term follow-up care for children with elevated blood lead levels.
ACCREDITATION
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AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Continuing Education Company, Inc. and Pivto Learning.

Continuing Education Company, Inc. is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.Continuing Education Company designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

COURSE INFORMATION

This course includes 6 modules covering key topics on lead poisoning, from Missouri lead statistics and testing requirements to symptoms, case management, and treatment. Each module builds essential knowledge step by step. At the end, you will complete a Final Knowledge Check to review what you’ve learned.

Release Date
10/24/2025
Expiration Date
10/24/2027
(Date after which this enduring material is no longer certified for credit.)
Medium
Internet/Enduring Material, Video/Audio/Written
Credit
1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Provider
Continuing Education Company
Accredited by
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
POST-TEST AND EVALUATION

After completing the CME activity, you must successfully complete a post-test and fill out a program evaluation form. You will then be able to view and print your CME certificate.

UNLABELED USE DECLARATION

During their presentation, faculty may discuss unlabelled or investigational use which is not approved for a commercial product. Faculty members are required to disclose this information to the audience when referring to an unlabelled or investigational use.

STATEMENT OF DISCLOSURE AND INDEPENDENCE

It is the policy of Continuing Education Company (CEC) and its joint-provider, Pivto Learning, to ensure all of its accredited educational activities are designed, implemented, and evaluated in accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s (ACCME) Criteria and Policies.

CEC has Relevant Financial Relationship Disclosure Policies that are designed to ensure that accredited educational activities are fair, balanced, independent, evidence based, and based on scientific rigor.

REVIEW AND PLANNING COMMITTEE DISCLOSURES

The following individuals have indicated that they have no financial relationship with an ineligible company that may impact upon this CME activity:

Tom Mooney – Planner
(Pivto Learning)
Kelley Robson – CEO and Planner
(Pivto Learning)
Raymond E. Major, MD – Reviewer
Walter Ejnes, CHCP – Reviewer
(Continuing Education Company)
Lizzie Masters, CHCP – Reviewer
(Continuing Education Company)
Beth Ryan Townsend, CHCP – Reviewer
(Continuing Education Company)
FACULTY AND PLANNING DISCLOSURES

The following individuals were responsible for developing their own content, which has been reviewed by Continuing Education Company’s Medical Education Advisory Committee to ensure it is unbiased.  Continuing Education Company has ensured that all relevant financial relationships that faculty may have with ineligible companies have been mitigated in advance of the CME activity.  An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Faculty/Planner Disclosures Company
Maggie Burns, NP Nothing to disclose
David Liss, MD Nothing to disclose
Heidi B. Miller, MD Nothing to disclose
Dave Mosby Nothing to disclose
Nicholas Rustemeyer Nothing to disclose
Jennifer Lowry Sample, MD Nothing to disclose
Teresa Wortman, NP Nothing to disclose

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