RSS Coordinator(s):

• Margarita Fuentes-Negron margarita.fuentes-negron@baystatehealth.org

Series Overview

This educational conference aims to review select patient care critically encounters to analyze essential quality, safety, and management outcomes. Evidence-based literature review and content expert-facilitated discussions focus on the goals and objectives toward advancing knowledge, skills, team-based behaviors, and system-based practices centered on advancing best clinical practices and standards of care.

Intended Audience

Surgeons, Advanced Practitioners, Residents, and Medical Students

Planning Committee

Accreditation

Accreditation Statement

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

Credit Designation Statements

Physicians (AMA) Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM.  Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hour(s).  Nurses should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AAPA Credit Designation Statement  AAPA accepts AMA category 1 credit for the PRA from organizations accredited by ACCME.  Baystate Health has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria.  This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credit(s).  PA’s should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team and learners will receive 1.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

ABS MOC Self Assessment for Surgeons Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME [and Self-Assessment requirements] of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME  for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

POLICY ON FACULTY AND SPONSOR DISCLOSURE

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.

None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Series location: 
Chestnut 1A&B

RSS Format: 
Hybrid (in-person & webinar)

Global Objectives: 

As a result of participation in this educational series, members of the healthcare team will be able to:

1. Throughout the series, objectives to be met include increasing collaborative information sharing for effective clinical decision-making, reflective practice building on outcomes assessments of clinical cases, and impacting fund of knowledge on evidence-based best practices for topic-specific clinical care.

Interprofessional RSS: [From application]
Yes

Intended Audience: 
Surgeons
Advanced Practitioners
Residents
Medical Students
 

Specialty: 
Surgery

Credits Available: [From application]
AAPA Category 1 CME
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
ANCC Contact Hours
IPCE (Interprofessional Continuing Education)
MOC American Board of Surgery