Floor plan - 2013 Annual Meeting - American Association for Hand ...

AAHS CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION
AAHS MEETING OBJECTIVES:
1. To arrange clinical and basic science panels, special speakers, instructional courses and skill workshops on a variety of hand and upper extremity problems including
therapy issues.
2. To assemble a specialty day with experts in the field reviewing all aspects of the current medical treatments of arthritis, as well as new techniques in joint replacement,
fusion and therapy techniques for the complete care of the arthritic hand patient, both osteo and rheumatoid.
3. To contrast and compare the intellectual discourses of the annual meeting through an integrated program with the ASRM and ASPN.
4. To learn and apply new skills during courses on hands for the replacement of new joints, plates, fracture management, hand soft tissue reconstruction for the
upper extremity patient.
5. Debate panel presentations on the following topics: the wide awake approach to hand surgery in an office setting with local anesthesia, the problem of ulnar
nerve compression, neuropathies of the elbow, cubital tunnel syndrome, scaphoid fractures and management both non-operative and operative with newer techniques
and compression screws.
6. To appraise a presidential guest speaker, who is a Micorsoft engineer, will discuss new techniques in genetic engineering and implantable computer chips in the
brain to help patients with paralysis, stroke, blindness and hearing deficits.
7. To define current practices in wrist and hand fracture management.
8. To demonstrate new surgical techniques in tendon, nerve and soft tissue repair.
9. To acquire evidence based knowledge of current trends in the management of arthritis of the hand and wrist.
10. To critique and appraise the latest basic science research in tissue engineering, composite tissue allografts and joint replacements.
11. To discuss challenges and management issues in peripheral nerve surgery.
METHODS TO ACHIEVE THESE OBJECTIVES WILL BE:
1. Original research papers will be presented and discussed throughout the meeting.
2. Poster presentations that were not selected for podium presentation will be presented and available for all members to review.
3. All of the panelists are recognized experts and published in the international literature, in regards to those topics of nerve, out patient, local anesthetic surgery,
patient safety issues ands- scaphoid and wrist fractures with problems discussed completely including therapy.
4. Specialty day will include hand therapists as well as expert surgeons discussing an entire day on the treatment of the patient with osteo and rheumatoid arthritis,
including a medical rheumatologist discussing current treatment protocols, as well as an entire review of all the new arthropplasty’s, fusions and a therapist will be
included in every topic to discuss patient outcome, rapid recovery and patient safety issues in regards to therapy.
5. Skills courses will be presented using cadaver related techniques to improve the hand surgeon and therapist understanding of newer techniques in joint arthroplasty,
plating for fractures and soft tissue related issues for coverage of wounds.
6. All attendees will have the opportunity to take a board review course which covers the entire aspect of board examination for the upper extremity surgeon, presented by a series
of experts.
7. Instructional courses will be offered throughout the program and will avail attendees with information related to all aspects of hand surgery.
ACCREDITATION/CME
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education
through the joint sponsorship of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and American Society for Peripheral Nerve. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons is accredited
by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons designates this educational activity for a maximum of 13.75 AMA PRA Category 1 credits. Physicians should only claim credit
commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. (Credit hours subject to change):
AAHS ANNUAL MEETING
January 9-12, 2008 13.75 hours
COMPREHENSIVE HAND SURGERY REVIEW COURSE
January 11, 2008 4.5 hours
AAHS/ASPN/ASRM COMBINED DAY
January 12, 2008 4.0 hours
Additional CME hours are available for Instructional/Bioskills Courses on an hour-for-hour basis, awarded solely based on registration lists, as follows:
COURSE # CME COURSE # CME
101-104 1.0 hours 112-116 1.0 hours
105 2.0 hours 117-122 1.0 hours
106 1.5 hours
107-111 1.0 hour
Credit hours are subject to program changes.
COPYRIGHT
All of the proceedings of the annual meeting, including the presentations of scientific papers, are intended solely for the benefit of the membership of the American
Association for Hand Surgery. No statement or presentation made at the meeting is to be regarded as dedicated to the public domain. Any statement or presentation
is to be regarded as limited publication only and all property rights in the material presented, including common law copyright, are expressly reserved to the speaker or
to the American Association for Hand Surgery. Any sound reproduction, transcript, or other use of material presented at the meeting without the permission of the speaker
or the American Association for Hand Surgery is prohibited to thef ull extent of common law copyright in such material.
THE USE OF CAMERAS OR PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT IS NOT PERMITTED DURING THE PRESENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS.
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