About Continuum
Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology® is a topic-based self-study continuing medical education publication from the American Academy of Neurology. Continuum is clinically based and written in clear, concise language by experts in the neurology subspecialties. Published six times a year, each Continuum issue includes diagnostic and treatment outlines, clinical case studies, topic-relevant ethics and practice cases, a detailed patient management problem, and a multiple-choice self-assessment examination. Participants who complete the examination will earn up to 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Core Curriculum
Continuum rotates 12 "Core Curriculum" topics every three years. The topics chosen are those that are most heavily weighted on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) Maintenance of Certification cognitive examination. Four core curriculum and two non-core curriculum topics–covering other timely, interesting subjects–are published each year. All topics are available to nonsubscribers as back issues six months after publication.
The 12 Core Curriculum topics covered are:
- Aging, dementia, and degenerative disease
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Critical care and trauma
- Demyelinating disorders
- Epilepsy
- Headache and other pain syndromes
- Movement disorders
- Neurogenetics/neurometabolic disorders
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Neurology of systemic disease
- Neuro-ophthalmology/neuro-otology
- Spinal cord and nerve root disorders
2009 Core Curriculum Topics*
February: Myasthenia Gravis and ALS
April: Neuro-ophthalmology
August: Critical Care Neurology
October: Neuropathic Pain
*Order subject to change.
2008 Core Curriculum Topics
February: Neurologic Manifestations of Systemic Disease
April: Neurogenetics
June: Spinal Cord, Plexus, and Root Disorders (including Quintessentials)
December: Acute Ischemic Stroke
2007 Core Curriculum Topics
February: Movement Disorders (including CD-ROM)
April: Dementia (including Quintessentials)
August: Epilepsy (including Quintessentials)
October: Multiple sclerosis
2006 Core Curriculum Topics
February: Critical Care Neurology
June: Muscle Diseases
August: Neuro-otology (including Quintessentials and CD-ROM)
December: Headache (including Quintessential)
* CME may be earned for three years from the issue's date of publication.
