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Emergency Medicine

7-Night Aruba, Curacao & Barbados
Round-trip Philipsburg, St. Maarten
June 19 - 26, 2021

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<em>Celebrity Millennium</em>
Celebrity Millennium

COURSE CREDITS & HOURS

16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours

COURSE FEES

$995 for Physicians, Attorneys, Psychologists, Pharmacists, & Dentists
$750 for Physician Assistants & Nurse Practitioners
$595 for Nurses, Students & Others

TARGET AUDIENCE

Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists,

PROGRAM PURPOSE

Topics and Objectives:
  1. Litigation Stress
    • Discuss the typical physical and emotional reactions
    • Learn to develop support systems and utilize privileged communications.
    • Discuss methods to cope with the pressure of a claim, develop a sense of perspective
  2. Medical Errors/Patient Safety in the Emergency Department
    • Discuss patient safety and the impact on health care outcomes and finances
    • Discuss practical patient safety initiatives for the ED
    • Discuss crew resource behavior management, teamwork, role clarification, communication styles and tips.
  3. Violence in the Emergency Department
    • Develop strategies to promote safety, security and dignity for all involved.
    • Learn how we influence whether a crisis is prevented or escalates and how to respond properly and professionally during crisis moments
  4. ENT Tricks of the Trade
    • Review common head and neck emergencies.
    • Discuss treatment options for these emergencies.
    • Describe procedures to treat head and neck complaints.
  5. Effective Communications and Conflict Management Skills in the Emergency Department
    • Discuss the impact of an unhealthy workplace and contributors to incivility
    • Discuss communication and personal development tips to improve your worksite
    • Discuss how we respond and communicate under stress
    • Discuss how our own behavior impacts that of our colleagues
  6. Generational Synergy in the ED
    • Discuss the 5 generations encountered in the workplace and their characteristics.
    • Describe the interactions between generations and its effect on the workplace environment.
  7. Bringing Your Soul to Work: Resilience in the ED
    • Discuss current statistics on Discouraged Doctors, the individual and group dynamics causing workplace stress and strategies to find meaning in our work.
  8. Pediatric fever: management and update
    • Recognize serious bacterial infections
    • Describe suggested diagnostic work-up of the febrile infant based upon recognize guidelines and patient age
    • Identify life-threatening causes of fever
  9. Syncope update: the evaluation of the patient with loss of consciousness
    • List causes for syncope which may cause morbidity and mortality
    • Discuss cost-effective work-up for the patient with history of loss of consciousness
    • Interpret different reports and recommendations in recent literature
  10. Pain management options in the era of opioid anuse
    • Appraise the extent of the opioid crisis
    • Analyze options for treatment of pain without use of narcotics
    • Examine new developments and pharmaceutical developments of analgesics
  11. Trauma in the pediatric patient
    • Discuss the extent and nature of non-accidental trauma
    • Report the extent and science of imaging in the injured child
    • Critique recommendations for diagnosis and management of the concussed adolescent
    • Analyze the role of anti-thrombolyics
  12. What is new in toxicology
    • Cite substances of abuse which were not available even ten years earlier
    • Describe toxidromes which may elucidate what may have caused symptoms in the poisoned patient
    • Exemplify specific abused substances
  13. Cardiopulmonary/Resuscitation update
    • Report changes in standard guidelines
    • Formulate resuscitation guidelines past standard CPR and advanced cardiac life support

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

PLEASE NOTE: To attend the conference or participate in conference events, participants, their families, and guests must book their cruise within the CEI meeting group through Continuing Education, Inc. This ensures our company can provide conference services and complimentary social amenities to all meeting participants and their guests. Thank you for your cooperation.

Register your interest and receive a full quote at 800-422-0711 (US/Can) or direct/int'l tel: +1-727-526-1571 or register online.

Conference Sessions generally take place on days at sea (as itinerary allows), giving you plenty of time to enjoy your meals, evenings and ports of call with your companion, family and friends.
BIAS FREE CME - No Commercial Support was provided for this CME activity.

Faculty

Tracy G. Sanson MD, FACEP, CEO

Tracy G. Sanson MD, FACEP, CEO

Tracy Sanson MD LLC
Emergency Physician
Public Speaker
Recipient of the 2020 Judith E. Tintinalli Award for Outstanding Contribution in Education from the American College of Emergency Physicians
Educator, Coach, Consultant, Founder TracySansonMD, LLC
Lutz, Florida

Dr. Sanson is an Emergency Physician with more than 20 years of experience in emergency medicine education, emergency department management, and leadership. She is a consultant and educator on Leadership development and Medical education at TracySansonMD.

Dr. Sanson has served in several and varied leadership positions with the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), the Council of Residency Directors (CORD), and the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). She is a member of the ACEP Speaker's Bureau and the 911 network. She has been a member of the ACEP faculty for many years, including the ACEP Teaching Fellowship and the Emergency Department Directors Academy. 

Dr. Sanson completed her medical degree and residency training at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has held director positions in the US Air Force, the University of South Florida and TeamHealth during the past 20 years. Dr. Sanson heads her own consulting firm, specializing in leadership training.

Accreditation

 Joint Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Continuing Education, Inc./University at Sea® is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

Credit Designation for Physicians: Continuing Education, Inc. designates this live activity for 16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Osteopathic Physicians: This program is eligible for Category 2 credit with the American Osteopathic Association (AOA).

US or Canadian Family Physicians: Please let us know if you require AAFP Prescribed Credits.

 

ANCC

Credit Designation for Nurses:  Continuiung Education, Inc. designates this continuing nursing education activity for 16 contact hours.
Accredited status does not imply endorsement by Continuing Education, Inc./University at Sea® or ANCC of any commercial products displayed or used with an activity.

Nurse Practitioners: Can claim either ANCC Contact Hours or AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM as needed.   Pharmacology credits are identified on individual activities.

ROYAL COLLEGE MOC

 

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada:
Through an agreement between the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, medical practitioners participating in the Royal College MOC Program may record completion of accredited activities registered under the ACCME’s “CME in Support of MOC” program in Section 3 of the Royal College’s MOC Program.

ROYAL COLLEGE MOC

 

College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) has a reciprocal credit reporting agreement with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). Prescribed credits can be claimed as the equivalent number of certified credits, and Elective credits can be claimed as the equivalent number of non-certified credits.

Members of the CFPC may claim up to 50 credits per five-year cycle from Physician's Recognition Award (PRA) Category 1 credits. Any additional credits are eligible as non-certified credits.

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education


Credit Designation for Pharmacists: This knowledge-based activity is approved for 16 hours of pharmacy continuing education credit.