Other Meetings of Interest to Surgeons
2010
New frontiers in minimally invasive surgery
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
August 19–21, 2010
Website: http://www.meded.uci.edu/CME/CME-H-Activity-CR-Live.html
Phone: 714-456-7347
The program is designed to provide information about new frontiers in minimally invasive surgery and to look critically at the currently utilized approaches, as well as those on the horizon. Specifically, the course will translate the standardized terminology for minimally invasive surgery, including single-port surgery, endoluminal therapy, and NOTES; explain the potential benefits and limitations of minimally invasive surgery, single-port surgery, and endoluminal therapy relative to open surgery; identify benefits, risks, and contraindications to single-port minimally invasive surgery compared to traditional minimally invasive surgery; identify opportunities for endoluminal therapies to replace or support traditional minimally invasive surgery approaches; and assess the evolving techniques and issues in expansion of laparoscopic surgery.
CME: 18 American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award Category 1 Credits™
Accreditation: The University of California Irvine School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide medical education for physicians.
16th annual trauma symposium
San Antonio, TX
August 30–September 1, 2010
Website: http://www.nationaltraumainstitute.com/home/annual_trauma_symposium/
2010_annual_trauma_symposium.html
E-mail: events@nationaltraumainstitute.org
Hosted by the National Trauma Institute, the symposium provides an opportunity for trauma care providers to stay abreast of the latest innovations in care. The opening session will address provider resiliency and post-traumatic stress disorder. The more than 80 research-based lectures scheduled to be given during the two-and-a-half day event will cover trauma critical care, trauma nursing, emergency medicine, anesthesiology, orthopedic trauma, burn surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, and craniofacial trauma. The program will also include plenary sessions on traumatic brain injury and resuscitation as well as an advanced airway course.
CME: This activity has been approved for American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award Category 1 Credits™
Palliative Care Leadership Center Initiative
Multiple locations and dates offered
Website: 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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