Community Events

Presented by Maryland MGMA

Speaker: Brian Ramos, MBA, CMPE
Chief Operating Officer of Capital Anesthesia Partner

With a second wave of COVID-19 outbreak looming, effective contact tracing is being touted as the only way for you to isolate the source of infection and avoid having your doors shut by state officials. 

Here are just a few of the practical, easy-to-implement COVID-19 contact tracing strategies that you'll receive by attending this online training session: 

• Use contact tracing to bolster patient confidence to come back to your office
• Communicate mandatory self-quarantine guidelines for COVID-19 exposed staff
• Implement effectively timed follow up with patients who were potentially exposed
• Pin down when and if you are required to report test results to your public health department
• Implement timed follow up with patients to monitor them for new symptoms

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Presented by Maryland MGMA

Speaker: Susan Childs, FACMPE, 
Evolution Healthcare Consulting

As the practice leaders, we are dealing with new protocols and the balancing of our practice through this ever-transitional period. There has never been a better time to be more in tune with your staff, physicians and patients.

We experience fear, pressure stress and anxiety, and any one of which alone can be overwhelming. Emotional intelligence offers the familiarity needed in the best way to respond to any situation accordingly.

While it is our role in a professional setting to care for others we also have to think of ourselves in order to maintain a routine and level of sanity while providing patient care.

This session will look at how, as a leader, emotional intelligence can help most with communication, operational and revenue cycle issues in these most challenging times!

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Presented by the American College of Medical Toxicology

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Infectious disease specialist, Dr. Evan Anderson, will give a general overview of vaccine development, various vaccine types, development process and current status update on SARS2 vaccines.

Arizona Poison Center Medical Director, Dr. Dan Brooks, will share COVID-19 updates from Arizona regarding state-wide numbers, hospital resources, planning, and poison centers’ staffing for the state’s hotline. New Mexico Poison Center Medical Director, Dr. Steven Seifert, will discuss the recent clusters of methanol poisoning from hand sanitizers in New Mexico.

MedChi CME Webinar - Register Online

Revamping Your Medical Practice to Thrive During COVID-19: Business and Legal Considerations has been developed to address various employment related policies and procedures that should be implemented in the healthcare practice to minimize the risk of employment litigation. The panel will provide strategies to improve total patient experience and discuss ways to increase revenues. 

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Deputy for Science on the CDC's COVID-19 International Task Force, Dr. Benjamin Dahl, will present on the global epidemiology of COVID-19 and include metrics from mortality surveillance systems through innovative data visualizations. He will also present on the different global approaches to lifting mitigation strategies, with a focus on school re-openings, and highlight country case-studies from Europe. 

UCLA Infectious Disease Pharmacist, Dr. Matthew Davis, will give a brief review of major trials that have studied Remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19 and discuss the clinical takeaways.

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Which living animal is the closest descendant to dinosaurs?
Do humans share genetic makeup with a macaque monkey?
How about a banana?

Why is the Coronavirus not considered a lifeform?   
The answers to these questions and more will be revealed as we take a physician-led virtual tour of the Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History on Wednesday, July 15 at 4:30 p.m. Travel back in time from the comfort of your own home through a virtual guided tour of the Fossil Hall and trace the early origins of life, examine patterns of evolution, dig through the age of dinosaurs and our ancient, and not-so-ancient, ancestors.

Your physician tour guide will be Dr. Stephen Rockower (@DrBonesMd), Bethesda-based Orthopaedic Surgeon, Past President of MedChi, and official docent at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Please join us for this entertaining, insightful discovery of the Fossil Hall, without the traffic, crowds or parking. This Zoom webinar is open to physicians and their families (children 10+ years old).

Presented by the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration’s Office of Workforce Development and Technology Transfer
Register Online: https://bit.ly/3dJY0pC


Description 
THIS TRAINING IS INTENDED FOR PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS (ex. doctors, nurses, physician assistants). The goal of Recognizing and Responding to Suicide Risk: Essential Skills in Primary Care (RRSR-PC) is for primary care practitioners and staff to learn current best practices in eliciting suicide risk when present and meeting the needs of their distressed patients. The RRSR-PC was developed by the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) with funding from the Irving and Barbara C. Gutin Charitable Fund to provide physicians, nurses/nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with the knowledge they need in order to include suicide risk assessments in routine office visits, to elicit risk where it exists, and work with patients to create treatment plans to reduce risk.

During this training program, Primary Care Practitioners learn: 

1. Why and how routine suicide risk screening should and can be incorporated into routine medical visits
2. What constitutes appropriate risk management strategies and crisis response planning
3. How to effectively document a suicide risk assessment in a medical chart

Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University Of Utah School Of Medicine and the American Association of Suicidology. The University Of Utah School Of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit: The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure: None of the faculty or planners or anyone in control of content for this continuing medical education activity have any relevant financial relationships since the content does not cover any products/services of a commercial interest; therefore, there are no relevant financial relationships to disclose.