Free Breast Cancer Continuing Education Units (CEU) for Nursing

Overview of Free Breast Cancer CEU Courses

Continuing education (CE) courses involving breast cancer, or more generally, oncology, are available both online and in person for free if you are a practicing medical professional. These courses are typically available as case studies and webinars and can provide up to two hours of credit, covering various aspects of testing, treating, or diagnosing breast cancer in patients. Although all the sources featured include accredited CE/CME courses, it's important to ensure that these courses award acceptable forms of credit to your practicing state's medical board.

National Comprehensive Cancer Network

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has several continuing education courses dealing with treating and testing for breast cancer. The courses are all free and only require online registration with the website, which is also free. NCCN is accredited through three major medical councils: the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. The NCCN offers CEU courses both online and at a venue, which varies depending on the course selected. Some course topics include:

• Staging breast cancer
• Treating advanced hormone-sensitive breast cancer
• Parp inhibitors
• Regional treatments of breast cancer

Medscape

Medscape is an online resource for healthcare professionals that provides a wide array of free resources and accredited CE courses. From a brief search in their CME section, breast cancer courses can easily be found, along with the number of credits each course provides and the duration of the course. The courses are available in varying formats such as live webinars, clinical briefs, and clinical reviews. Although no purchase is required, it is necessary to register a free Medscape account to receive unlimited access to the courses. Some CE course titles are:

• Persistent Hot Flashes Can Raise Breast Cancer Risk in Women
• Evolving Standards of Care in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
• Breast Cancer and Resistance
• Use of Novel Combination Therapies in the Treatment of Advanced HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer

myCME

MyCME is an online resource that provides CE/CME courses for medical professionals in almost any specialty or profession. The majority of these courses are free and only require creating a myCME account to access them. The site holds roughly 14 modules specific to breast cancer that provide CE credit, nine of which are free. The formats available include webcasts, case studies, slide lectures, and podcasts, and they offer between .25 and 1.00 hours' worth of credit per course. Some courses provided by myCME are:

• Improving Care: HR+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer
• Addressing Whole-Genome Sequencing and Breast Cancer in Primary Care
• Novel Combination Therapies
• NPs and Nurses in the Treatment of Breast Cancer with CDK4/6 Inhibitors

The Jackson Laboratory

The Jackson Laboratory provides free online CME courses for healthcare professionals that deal with cancer diagnostics, treatment, and testing. Although their selection is vast, they only provide two courses that are specific to breast cancer, while other courses provide more all-encompassing information. The two courses they provide are entitled, 'Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Risk' and 'Hereditary Breast Ovarian Cancer (HBOC)', which are both self-paced courses in the format of a module and case study, respectively. The information taught in these courses include:

• Communicating the expectations of testing to patients
• Collecting family medical history pertaining to cancer
• Understanding best recommendations for testing based on evidence
• Discerning if genetic testing is necessary or appropriate for patients