Description
Now with CME and SA credit!!
CME on Your Terms – The Osler Institute utilized state of the art equipment to record our Live August 11-13, 2017 comprehensive Vascular Surgery Review Course and bring it to you! These Video/Audio files are stored “in the cloud” so you can stream them anywhere, anytime, as long as you have an internet connection, watch or listen to on your phone, computer – your learning experience is almost like being at the live activity, but without travel costs and time away from your practice.Included with each online review is a downloadable copy of the syllabus that corresponds to the Video/Audio lectures for your use while viewing or as a free-standing study or clinical practice guide.
This comprehensive review is designed to update your clinical knowledge-base as well as to help you pass your Vascular Surgery written exam. Emphasis is on evidence-based medicine and board-relevant standards of care, incorporating current best practice concepts, testing and treatment approaches, and clinical follow-up techniques. As a result, it provides a good review for your Vascular Surgery written exam as well as providing a thorough review for physicians in practice. Many of our previous participants found the course provided them with: improved diagnostic and planning strategies, a better understanding of the best surgical and non-surgical treatment approaches, a better grasp of perioperative critical care, and helped them recognize areas of weakness for self-study.
CME
Accreditation Statement:
The Osler Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement:
The Osler Institute designates this Enduring Material for a maximum of 21.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Of the AMA PRA Category, 1 Credits™ listed above, a maximum of 21.5 credits meet the requirements for Self-Assessment.
Required Physician Participation:
Review the audio/video lectures at your own pace. To claim CME credit, Learners must successfully complete a self-assessment post-test (score of 75% or greater is required) and activity evaluation to test knowledge gained and its application to your practice. You may take the test and utilize the accompanying syllabus by accessing the links provided. More than one test attempt is allowed and feedback is provided.
Financial Disclosure
Faculty, Planner, and Reviewer Disclosure Declaration
In compliance with the Standards, Guidelines, and Ethical opinions of the ACCME, AAMC and AMA, The Osler Institute requires that anyone with input into the planning or presentation of Continuing Medical Education activities provided or jointly-provided by The Osler Institute must disclose to the program audience any relevant financial relationships with companies or organizations about whose products or services they are discussing in their presentations.
The following faculty/planners/reviewers disclosed a relevant financial relationship(s).
None
The following faculty/planners/reviewers listed no relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
Amy Coulter, MD
Paul Lajos, MD, RPVI
Peter Lin, MD
Ahmed Mahmoud, MD
Sandip Maru, MD
Trissa Babrowski, MD†
Joseph Selliken, MD†
Michael Stewart†
Sally Schuette, PhD†
Copies of the Faculty Disclosure Forms are available upon request.
† Program Planning Committee
* Reviewer if Applicable
Faculty & Topics
Trissa Babrowski, MD Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery University of Chicago
Non-Atherosclerotic Vascular Diseases I and II
Amy Coulter, MD Staff Surgeon Vascular Surgery Associates, Rochester, NY
Abdominal Aorta Aneurysms, Iliac Artery Aneurysms, Thoracic Aorta Aneurysms, Acute Limb Ischemia, Chronic Limb Ischemia, Questions and Answers I
Paul Lajos, MD Chief of Vascular Surgery Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens, New York
Lower Extremity Aneurysms, Visceral Artery Aneurysms, Lower Extremity Arterial Occlusions, Questions and Answers II
Peter Lin, MD Professor Emeritus of Surgery Baylor College of Medicine
Vascular Trauma I and II, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, Carotid Occlusive Disease, Endovascular Therapies I and II
Ahmed Mahmoud, MD Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery University of California, Davis
Visceral Ischemic Syndromes, Renovascular Disorders I and II, Aortoiliac Occlusive Diseases, Upper Extremity Arterial Occlusions
Sandip Maru, MD Assistant Professor of Surgery University of New England
Management of Venous Disease I and II, Vascular Graft Infections, Lymphedema, Popliteal Entrapment and Cystic Media Disease, Vascular Labs
Objectives
At the conclusion of this course each participant will be able to:
1. Describe the fundamentals of the basic science that underlies vascular disease and its surgical treatment.
2. Discuss comprehensive non-operative treatment of vascular disease to include drug therapy and risk factor reduction.
3. Discuss preoperative risk assessment as well as operative and postoperative critical care procedures for the vascular surgery patient.
4. Describe the fundamentals of vascular disease clinical evaluation to include: plethysmography, duplex ultrasonography, MRI and CT scans, angiography, and other tests used in the diagnosis of vascular disease.
5. Summarize the indications and techniques related to open operative treatment of vascular disease of the cerebrovascular system, exclusive of intracranial vessels, as well as thoracic and abdominal vessels and those of the upper and lower extremities.
6. Summarize the indications and techniques of endovascular intervention for all major vessels exclusive of intracranial and aortic arteries.
Guarantee
The Osler “Until You Pass” Guarantee
The Osler Institute is so confident that our online review is the best that we guarantee: if you have purchased an online Osler course and then within the following year failed the examination for which that course was designed, you may re-subscribe to the Osler online course for the same term as initially purchased tuition free. Each free online course must be preceded by a corresponding failed examination attempt.
