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Continuing Medical Education
by Physicians Calendar

Community Medical Center
Continuing Medical Education Department
1800 Mulberry Street
Scranton, PA 18510
(570) 969-8179


July 2010

CME Tuesday Lecture Series Calendar & Objectives
NOON – 1 PM, SCHOOL OF NURSING AUDITORIUM


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July 6, 2010
FUTURE DIRECTIONS OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE:
CARE OF OUR PATIENTS IN NEPA

- VINCENT J. VANSTON, MD, FAAHPM
Community Medical Center

At the conclusion of this activity, participant’s performance should be enhanced regarding:

  • Explaining the core essential elements of quality palliative care, treatment goals, and how it differs from hospice
  • Identifying when to refer appropriate patients to palliative treatment programs and plan for the next phase in the care continuum
  • Reinforcing palliative care’s positive transformation on the quality and cost of care hospitals provide to seriously ill patients


July 20, 2010
INTRODUCTION TO EPILEPSY:
PART 1

- KENNETH LILIK, MD
Community Medical Center

At the conclusion of this activity, participant’s performance should be enhanced regarding:

  • Identify the different types of seizures
  • Identify some conditions that may simulate seizures
  • Discuss first aid for generalized tonic-clonic seizures



July 2010

TUMOR BOARD
12 NOON-1 PM, SCHOOL OF NURSING, CME ROOM, 1ST FLOOR


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July 13, 2010
MULTI-DISCIPLINE CASE REPORTS
- BRIAN MOTT, MD
Community Medical Center

At the conclusion of this activity, participant’s performance should be enhanced regarding:

  • Review cases of patients with different stages of cancer
  • Reinforce an understanding of the decision-making process that goes into the formulation of cancer treatment plans
  • Validate the "mult-discipline team approach" in managing and treating cancer patients
    • 70 y/o male: Small Cell Lung Cancer
    • 50 y/o female: Breast Cancer
    • 57 y/o female: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

The Cancer Committee will meet at 11:30 a.m. before Tumor Board in the School of Nursing Building, Auditorium.

The information presented at Tumor Board is confidential, priveleged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Disemination of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.



The Community Medical Center Healthcare System is accredited by the Pennsylvania Medical Society to provide Continuing Medical Education for Physicians.

The CMCHS designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category I Credit(s). Physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.

Faculty and all others who have the ability to control the content of continuing medical education activities sponsored by the Community Medical Center Healthcare System are expected to disclose to the audience whether they do or do not have any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest or other relationships related to the content of their presentation(s).

Educational grants have been received from CMCHS.






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