CoC 2008 Web Conference Series

The CoC’s Web conference series offers one hour programs to support the educational needs of cancer team members in both CoC-accredited and non-accredited programs. Each Web conference will be presented LIVE on the date scheduled and will include a Q&A session with the presenter.

Following the original presentation, the program will be available via streaming video (with audio) for 90 days to the registrant. This version of the program will include the full presentation along with the Q&A session. Should the viewer of the video program have questions, they are invited to send them to the program’s presenter.

Registration

Registration is required to participate in the 2008 Web conference Series. The individual fee for each program is $35. There is no subscription rate or group rate available. This fee provides the registrant with access to the LIVE program, 90 days access to the streaming video, and 1 hour CE (NCRA) or 1 CME. (Note: The Web conference evaluation form must be completed to earn continuing education credit.) NO checks or PO's accepted.

Software Requirement

To view the archive version of any presentation, you will need to have Windows Media Player on your computer.  If you do not have this installed, you will not be able to download the video once you log into the archive.

Refund Policy

All refunds are subject to a 30% processing fee, and will be issued only when the program has not been viewed by the purchaser. Refunds are not transferable.

Click here to Register Online

Course Description

For a brief synopsis of each program, see the 2008 Web Conference Series Course Descriptions (10K PDF). The topics to be presented include:

• Collaborative Staging: Stay on Top of the Latest Changes
• Ready, Set, Go! Preparing for Survey from the Surveyor's Perspective
• Tip Time: Strategies for Successful SAR Completion
• Navigating and Interpreting the NCDB Survival Reports
• Overcoming Barriers to Implementation of TQM/CQI
• Resolving Issues of Case Eligibility
• Comparative Reporting: Quality of Care Measures for Breast and Colorectal Cancers
• Get Ready! Preparing for the NCDB Call for Data

Complete details and information about each program are available through the Registration link above.

Continuing Education Credit

Continuing Education Credit
1 CE hour for each program has been approved by the National Cancer Registrars Association. Only the registrant will be eligible for the continuing education credit. Registrars should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Accreditation
The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit
The American College of Surgeons designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

A non-physician CME certificate will be provided to all other allied health professionals.

Faculty Disclosure

In order to comply with the ACCME’s Updated Standards for Commercial Support, The American College of Surgeons, has implemented a disclosure process to ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity has disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. Per these updated standards, it is mandatory that both the program committee and speakers complete disclosures. Members of the program committee were required to disclose all financial relationships and speakers were required to disclose any financial relationship as it pertains to the content of the presentations. The ACCME defines a “commercial interest” as any proprietary entity producing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients. It does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests. The ACCME considers “relevant” financial relationships as financial transactions (in any amount) that may create a conflict of interest and occur within the 12 months preceding the time that the individual is being asked to assume a role controlling content of the educational activity.

The updated standards also require that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the session. The program committee members and speakers were contacted and the conflicts listed below have been managed to our satisfaction. However, if you perceive a bias during a session, please advise us of the circumstances on the session evaluation form.

Please note we have advised the speakers that it is their responsibility to disclose at the start of their presentation if they will be describing the use of a device, product, or drug that is not FDA approved or the off-label use of an approved device, product, or drug or unapproved usage.

The requirement for disclosure is not intended to imply any impropriety of such relationships, but simply to identify such relationships through full disclosure, and to allow the audience to form its own judgments regarding the presentation.

Revised April 30, 2008

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