Other Meetings of Interest to Surgeons
2009
HealthONE Rose Medical Center Pelvic Floor Disorders Symposium
Vail, CO
February 12–15, 2009
Web site: http://www.formsite.com/eventdesignusa/form768401180/index.html
Phone: 303-938-9237
E-mail: Leslie@eventdesignusa.com
The meeting focuses on the latest diagnosis of and treatment for female pelvic disorders. Meeting participants will learn the current issues in female pelvic medicine, reconstructive surgery, colon rectal surgery, and female urology; the appropriate diagnostic methodology in urinary incontinence, genital prolapse, and fecal incontinence; the proper medical and surgical management of urinary incontinence, vaginal prolapse, recurrences, and other aspects of the management of female pelvic disorders; and about the future of clinical issues in the management of female pelvic floor disorders.
CME: 11.25 American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award Category 1 Credits™
Accreditation: HealthONE CME is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Mayo Clinic Interactive Surgery Symposium
Kohala Coast, HI
February 22–27, 2009
Web site: http://www.mayo.edu/cme
Phone: 480-301-4580
E-mail: mcs.cme@mayo.edu
This symposium was designed for general surgeons to assist them in their decision making in multiple aspects of surgical practice. Course participants will learn the technical aspects and outcomes of inguinal and ventral hernia repairs; current and new treatment options for breast cancer patients; how to treat patients with unsuspected finding during surgery; patient care options in patients with colorectal and perianal disease; and how to establish criteria for routine care in the intensive care unit.
CME: 27 American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award Category 1 Credits™
Accreditation: College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Postgraduate course on Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Gynecology
New York, NY
April 3, 2009
Web site: http://www.mssm.edu/cme/courses/pedadgyn
Phone: 212-731-7950
E-mail: jeanette.cotto@mssm.edu
This one-day clinical postgraduate course was designed to provide participants with new advances in prevention, diagnosis, and management of gynecological disorders. Course attendees will learn to evaluate and manage primary and secondary amenorrhea; to distinguish the uterine problems of the adolescent; the types of uterine tumors; to diagnose the congenital anomaly of absent uterus and vagina and determine psychological support; the current diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, pelvic inflammatory disease, and HIV in pregnancy; to manage cervix dysplasia, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), and HPV vaccination; about herpes implex infections in the HIV patient and various vulvar diseases; to define general and gynecologic molestation; and to determine the appropriate contraception for a patient.
CME: 7.25 American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award Category 1 Credits™
Accreditation: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Palliative Care Leadership Center Initiative
Multiple locations and dates offered
Web site: http://www.capc.org
E-Mail: PCLC@mssm.edu
Phone: 212-201-2670
Fax: 212-426-1369
The Center to Advance Palliative Care offers onsite training and technical assistance to interdisciplinary teams seeking to develop or strengthen hospital-based palliative care programs. During the two-and-a-half day site visit at a Palliative Care Leadership Center (PCLC), participants will interact with a successful palliative care program currently in practice and receive hands-on training on the operational aspects of building a palliative care program.
The initiative has two key components. At the core of the PCLC program is the hands-on training session that will introduce participants to all the key concepts necessary to building a successful palliative care program. The PCLC training session is built around a comprehensive curriculum, which includes interactive sessions on topics such as hospital needs assessment; financing and business planning; structuring organizational and service models; program staffing; measuring clinical and financial impact; strategies for ensuring and managing growth; hospice-hospital collaborations; and marketing palliative care to clinicians and patients.
The second component to the PCLC program features a full year of mentoring. PCLC faculty at each leadership center will continue to assist teams for one full year following the site visit to help attendees overcome any obstacles. Continued guidance and distance mentoring will be available through conferences, workshops, conference calls, and personal communication with PCLC leaders. Each team member will also receive A Guide to Building a Hospital-Based Palliative Care Program, a "how-to" manual complete with implementation tools to help participants.
For more information on the PCLC initiative, PCLC centers, the availability of specific training dates, and PCLC representatives' contact information, visit
http://www.capc.org/palliative-care-leadership-initiative/pclc-schedule.
Accreditation: This educational activity has been approved as part of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Continuing Professional Development (RACS CPD) program.
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