The faculty members of the Department of Respiratory Care at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio are proud to offer continuing education for respiratory care practitioners on the World-Wide Web (WWW).
New Ventilatory Modes
Neonatal Assessment
Fetal Growth & Development
Aging & the Lung
Residents of these Texas Counties exempt from fee for CE: Bee, Brooks, Cameron, Dimmit, Duval, Edwards, Frio, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kinney, Kleberg, Lasalle, Live Oak, Maverick, McMullen, Nueces, Real, San Patricio, Starr, Uvalde, Valverde, Willacy, Zapata, Zavala.
Each of these web-based lessons currently is approved for one-hour of continuing education for respiratory therapists in Texas. The Texas Department of Health will accept up to four hours of web-based or computer-based continuing education each year. Approval by the American Association for Respiratory Care for those outside of Texas is pending.
Currently, there are four lessons available for use, with plans for several more. These lessons consist of screens of text and graphics, accompanied by an audio lecture. Some of the lessons also include links to other sites on the WWW to provide additional information and instructional aids, such as radiographs and other images.
Any questions or comments regarding the lessons may be directed to:
phone: 210-567-8850
fax: 210-567-8852
email: De De Gardner
To run these lessons, you will need RealPlayer, which is a product of RealNetworks, Inc. If you do not have RealPlayer, you can download it using a link in the first screen of the lesson. Importantly, there are two versions of RealPlayer. You will want to download and install RealPlayer Basic, which is free. After you’ve installed RealPlayer, please familiarize yourself with the controls. You can size the screen, adjust the audio volume, pause and stop the player at any time. After you have installed RealPlayer, you only need to click on the link for a given lesson to start it.
After you start a lesson, you can sit back and concentrate on the presentation, as it will run by itself. Please remember to pause RealPlayer before you click on a link to another site. Otherwise, it will continue to play the lesson while you are reviewing material on that other site.
There is a quiz on the material that you must submit to acquire continuing education credit for the lesson. Access this quiz by clicking on the quiz link next to each lesson. Depending on which browser you use, you may see the quiz in the browser or may be asked to save or open it. Whichever method you use, you will need to print the quiz, answer the questions and mail it, along with a check for $15.00 per hour of credit, payable to:
Department of Respiratory Care, UTHSCSA
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Mail this to:
Department of Respiratory Care, UTHSCSA
Continuing Education
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, TX 78284
Your certificate of continuing education will be mailed within a week of receipt of your check and quiz.
If you experience any technical problems (e.g. can’t access a lesson or print a quiz), please make a note of the nature of the problem and any error messages and contact:
De De Gardner, MSHP, RRT
Department of Respiratory Care
phone: 210-567-8859
email: gardnerd@uthscsa.edu