MS Related Professional Education Opportunities - Live and Online
2013 MS Regional Summit
The National MS Society's annual continuing medical education conference will be held on Saturday, May 18, 2013 at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle, WA. This is the premiere MS-focused conference in the region, attracting an audience of neurologists, physiatrists, nurse practitioners and physician's assistants involved in the search for answers to the complex questions of multiple sclerosis.
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Sick & Tired: Recognizing and Treating Fatigue in Persons With Multiple Sclerosis
Fatigue is the most commonly reported symptom in persons with Multiple Sclerosis. Fatigue interferes with sustained usual function, and is a significant cause of loss of employment and disability in otherwise unimpaired persons with MS. Additionally, contributing factors, such as other symptoms due to MS and co-morbidities that can contribute to and worsen primary MS fatigue, need to be addressed as well. Despite its prevalence, primary MS fatigue is often under recognized and treated in the MS population. This course includes information about the presentation and mechanisms of MS fatigue, as well as treatment strategies for both primary MS fatigue and contributing factors.
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CME, LLC-San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA
25th Annual US Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress
This program focusses on over 70 comprehensive sessions to choose from that provide knowledge and tools from which mental healthcare professionals may confidently diagnose disorders and develop effective individualized treatment plans to achieve patient wellness by applying evidence based management into daily practice.
Live, 11-8-12 & 11-11-12, $649 (til August 3) $1099 (onsite)
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Scripps Health-Hilton San Diego Resort in San Diego, CA
13th Annual 'The Science & Clinical Application of Integrative Holistic Medicine
This week-long educational course and conference focus on a mind-body-spirit approach to healing. The schedule includes case studies, small group exercises, experiential demonstrations and Q&A panel discussions. Experts will provide information about nutritional medicine, men's and women's health, cancer care, heart disease, auto-immune disorders, ecological medicine, functional medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, chronic pain psychiatry and more.
Live, 10-21-12 through 11-1-12
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Online, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Methods for Improving Quality of Life for Patients with Spasticity
This activity will discuss the pathophysiology and definition of spasticity to aide in patient evaluation, assess the usefulness and limitations of various scales used for evaluation, and describe available treatments and clinically relevant distinctions in dosing and bioavailability between chemo denervation agents that are available for the management of spasticity in adults and children to help clinicians improve patient quality of life.
Online, Free Webcast, expires 3-29-14
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Online, Quintiles Medical Education
Optimizing the Diagnosis and Treatment of CIDP: Early Medical Treatment to Prevent Axonal Loss
This educational program will review the diagnosis of CIDP, thereby enhancing the clinician’s understanding and recognition of the disease, and resulting in a more timely diagnosis. Additionally, an overview of the latest treatment data will heighten the physician’s understanding and utilization of the options available. This program is intended for neurologists, nurses, physician assistants, and other health care providers involved in the management of patients with CIDP.
Online, Free, expires 5-9-13.
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Online, Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers
The Spectrum of Multiple Sclerosis: Addressing Challenging Situations
This activity will discuss advances in the symptomatic treatment and management of patients with MS in order to maximize opportunities for preserving neurological function while minimizing the possibility of side-effects and serious adverse events. This activity is a web-based interactive case focusing on patient-tailored treatment approaches and practical application of managing symptoms in patients with MS.
Online, Free Webcast, expires 3-7-13.
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Online, The Albert Einstein College Of Medicine of Yeshiva University and University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy Multiple Sclerosis in Managed Care: Managing Decisions and Shaping Health Outcomes
These web-based classroom activities, which focuses on evaluating the clinical course and pathology of MS, are a 3 part series that will present perspectives from an MS neurologist, medical director, and pharmacy director on how to translate this wealth of information into clinical practice to improve patient and pharmacoeconomic outcomes. The introduction of treatments that are designed to change the natural disease course has focused attention on the economic burden of MS. Balancing cost-effective treatment with current guidelines and optimal therapy is a challenge to physicians and pharmacists practicing in the managed care setting. In order to be effective in their roles, managed care physicians and pharmacists and specialty pharmacists need a sense of the economic value of MS drug therapies for formulary selection and/or placement and optimizing patient care.
Online, Free Webcast, expires 3-7-13.
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Online, SleepClinican
Challenges in the Management of Patients With Co-existing sleep and Pain Disturbances
This educational activity will allow clinicians to acquire a more in-depth understanding of the relationship between chronic pain and sleep. Practical aspects that facilitate recognition of sleep problems in pain conditions, as well as treatment modalities that reduce pain and improve sleep will be discussed.
Grand Rounds Online, Free & Live, expires. 12-30-12.
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Online, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Practice Based Rounds: A Focus on Chronic Pain
The goals of our intervention are to give the primary care provider a better understanding of the physiology of chronic pain; the skills and tools to better screen patients for pain and complications of mismanaged pain and when properly identified, know how to safely and effectively treat their pain. Performance Improvement CME was developed to help healthcare clinicians assess their current clinical practice and improve their clinical care. To do this, participants A) identify areas that need improvement; B) implement interventions; C) and re-evaluate your clinical practice to assess the improvements made.
Stage A: Chart Pulls and Goal Setting
Stage B: Webcast and One-on-One rounding with a pain specialist in your community.
Stage C: Final chart pull and confirmation of/if goals were met.
Grand Rounds Online, Free & Live, expires 12-30-12
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Online The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Consensus Statement on Neurogenic Detrusor Overactivity: Multiple Sclerosis and Spinal Cord Injury-CME
This activity is designed for urologists, neurologists, physiatrists, and other health care professionals interested in or involved with the management of patients with multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injury who are at risk for neurogenic detrusor over activity. This supplement discusses the effect of NDO on the quality of life and overall health of patients with MS and SCI, identifies health care provider and patient barriers to care, describes best practices to screen for urinary dysfunction, and summarizes the panel’s recommendations for management of NDO in this patient population.
Online, Free & Live, expires 3-30-13.
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Online, Quintiles Medical Education
Managing Chronic Pain: Applying Knowledge of Pain Pathways to Treatment Selection
This educational activity will review the pathophysiology and the different pathways involved in chronic pain, and the role of current and emerging treatments in the management of chronic pain. The activity will also address how to select treatments for patients with a variety of chronic pain conditions based on knowledge of pain pathology.
Online, Free Webcast, expires 5-8-12.
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Online, Quintiles Medical Education
Managing Chronic Pain: Applying Knowledge of Pain Pathways to Treatment Selection
This educational activity will review the pathophysiology and the different pathways involved in chronic pain, and the role of current and emerging treatments in the management of chronic pain. The activity will also address how to select treatments for patients with a variety of chronic pain conditions based on knowledge of pain pathology.
Online, Free Webcast, expires 5-8-12.
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Online, Rockpointe War On Pain: Improving Interdisciplinary Pain Care for Combat Injured Military Personnel and Veterans from the OEF and the OIF Conflicts
The goal of this educational web course is to support the improvement of pain care services for military and veteran populations by providing physicians and nurses with the latest research and best practices in pain management.Pain is a leading cause of disability among veterans, and acute and chronic pain afflicts both military personnel and veterans in proportions far exceeding the general population. Characteristics of modern warfare produce serious, but survivable, injuries to the central and peripheral nervous systems, inflicting terrible acute pain and leading to chronic pain in many cases. Adequate pain management is a crucial component to improving military and veteran health care.
Online, Free, expires 11-30-12.
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Online, The University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy
Improving MS Care: Perspectives from a Medical Director, Pharmacy Director, and Specialty Pharmacist
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a costly disease in terms of its effects on patients’ quality of life and its financial cost to society. The introduction of treatments that are designed to change the natural disease course has focused attention on the economic burden of MS. Balancing cost-effective treatment with current guidelines and optimal therapy is a challenge to pharmacists practicing in the managed care setting. In order to be effective in their roles, managed care and specialty pharmacists need a sense of the economic value of MS drug therapies for formulary selection and/or placement and optimizing patient care. This archived symposium, including video vignettes of actual patients sharing their personal experiences of living with MS, will present perspectives from a medical director, pharmacy director, and specialty pharmacist on how to translate this wealth of information into clinical practice to improve patient and pharmacoeconomic outcomes.
Online Webcast, expires 12-12-12.
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Online, The University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy
Actionable Insights to the Evolving Management of MS: Important Considerations in Improving Outcomes
The introduction of treatments designed to change the natural disease course of multiple sclerosis (MS) has focused attention on the economic burden of this disease. Economic evaluations, which analyze the burden of MS on society and the cost effectiveness of new therapies, stress that the economic burden of a disease should be seen in a global perspective and that new treatments offer an opportunity to reduce the burden of the disease in the long term. Effective disease management increasingly involves both specialty and managed care pharmacists to navigate complicated treatment regimens and promote medication adherence. Pharmacists are challenged to choose optimal treatments to decrease future disability in a population in which the disease is highly variable, unpredictable, and very patient specific. The explosion in scientific knowledge over the last decade is overwhelming to both researchers and healthcare practitioners, particularly those who manage patients with MS. In order to be effective in their role, specialty and managed care pharmacists need a sense of the basic pharmaceutical sciences, clinical pharmacy, pharmacy management systems, health policy and ethics, new drug introductions, pharmacoeconomics, and pharmacoepidemiology. This archived webcast will provide managed care and specialty pharmacists with timely information and practical strategies to improve MS patient outcomes in the managed care setting.
Online, Free Webcast, expires 1-31-13.
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Online-University Of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Insights into Pain Management-Module 7: Multidisciplinary Pain Management
No one health care provider has all of the skills necessary to meet the needs of patients with complex pain. Primary care physicians can integrate the appropriate use of medications and other types of pain therapy into the care that they provide and also make other types of therapy available through referrals to other providers. Among the pain therapy options are interventional therapies, cognitive-behavioral therapy, activating physical therapy, and other self-management techniques.
Online, Free, expires 12-31-12.
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