Keeping Up! - by Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine

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CME Activity Announcement

Welcome to Keeping Up, a series of podcast CME activities sponsored by the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. These podcasts are designed for physicians and PAs practicing in the areas of emergency medicine, internal medicine, family practice or primary care. After listening, physicians will have been exposed to hundreds of the best articles from all areas of Emergency Medicine.  Each podcast presents the most current and relevant literature and highlights the practical application of each article to everyday practice.  This will improve patient care by helping Emergency Physicians practice state-of-the-art medicine but providing reinforcement of emergency medicine basics.  We also have the two presenters each month discuss each article’s limitations and areas of debate and disagreement, which helps listeners see each article’s strengths and weaknesses and makes the assessment of the article more balanced and objective.

After listening to this podcast, you should be able to describe and discuss:
  • How the current article fits within the broader historical context of EM and what question it seeks to answer
  • The results of the article
  • How the information applies to and may change their current practice day-to-day in the ED
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for CME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  Vanderbilt University School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM per session.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

It is the policy of Vanderbilt School of Medicine to require disclosure of financial relationships from individuals in a position to control the content of a CME activity; to identify and resolve conflicts of interest related to those relationships; and to make disclosure information available to the audience prior to the CME activity.  Presenters are required to disclose discussions of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentations.

Each planner and speaker has completed and signed a conflict of interest statement indicating the following:
  • Anna Allen, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt School of Medicine has no financial relationships to disclose.
  • Jeremy Brywczynski, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt School of Medicine has no financial relationships to disclose.
  • Jim Fiechtl, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt School of Medicine has no financial relationships to disclose.
  • Benjamin Heavrin, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt School of Medicine has no financial relationships to disclose.
  • Michael Johnston, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt School of Medicine has no financial relationships to disclose.
  • William Lummus, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt School of Medicine has no financial relationships to disclose.
  • Andrew Neck, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt School of Medicine has no financial relationships to disclose.
  • Clay Smith, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt School of Medicine has no financial relationships to disclose.
  • Saralyn Williams, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt School of Medicine has no financial relationships to disclose.

This enduring material received no commercial support. 

This CME activity consists of podcast recordings of article summaries that participants must download from this website, keepingup.org.

To obtain CME credit for your participation in Keeping Up, you must:
  • listen to the podcast and read at least one article presented
  • answer the questions by going to the Vanderbilt CME website
  • provide personal information
  • your credit will be immediately available online
The questions will provide you with the opportunity to comment on the extent to which the learning objectives were met, the perception of enhanced professional effectiveness, the perception of commercial bias and future topics. Personal information is used for issuing a CME credit certificate and storing that credit in the Vanderbilt CME database. The release and expiration dates for each podcast appear at the bottom of the CME page of this website.

It is the policy of Vanderbilt School of Medicine not to discriminate against any person on the basis of disabilities.  If you feel you need services or auxiliary aids mentioned in this act in order to fully participate in this continuing education activity, please call Pam Chunn at 615-936-0093.
 


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