Advanced Registration Deadline Extended to Feb. 23rd

Wed Feb 14 02:17:11 PST 2007

Source: AAEM (http://www.aaem.org)
Date: February 13, 2006

Register Now and Save $100 Per Pre-conference Course!
Registration for Pre-conference Courses at Lower Rate Extended until
February 23rd! 

Saturday, March 10, 2007
Advanced Electrocardiography in Emergency Medicine (8am-1pm) Director -
Amal Mattu, MD FAAEM; Speakers - William Brady, MD FAAEM and Richard
Harrigan, MD FAAEM The Advanced Electrocardiography Course is a session
designed for emergency physicians seeking advanced training in critical
EKG analysis.  The course will use case-based review and problem-based
learning to maximize the learning experience.  The course will present
an approach to difficult and challenging EKG Assessment, focusing on
common mistakes and misunderstood findings.  Topics to be covered
include arrhythmia, ischemia and bundle branch blocks.  In addition, the
course will review the EKG manifestations, as well as common
misunderstandings of a spectrum of life-threatening disease entities.  A
series of challenging EKGs will review and reinforce these principles.

Airway Management Course (8am-5pm)
Director - Richard Levitan, MD FAAEM; Speaker - William Kinkle, MD 	
The Emergency Airway Management Course is a session designed for
emergency physicians seeking advanced training in the management of the
difficult airway in the emergency medicine environment.  A combination
of didactic and hands-on instruction will be offered to maximize the
learning experience.

LLSA 2006 Review Course (1pm-5pm)
Director - Richard Shih, MD FAAEM; Speaker - Michael A. Silverman, MD
FAAEM FACP This course is designed to provide the experienced emergency
physician with an evidence-based review course for all of the required
readings for the LLSA 2006 Review Course. Both direct instruction and
small group instruction will be utilized. Content will be discussed both
via PowerPoint(r) and through small group discussion on key topics for
each mandated journal article.

Personal Financial Management (8am-1pm)
Director - Peter Richman, MD
This series of lectures will teach physicians fundamentals in economics
and finance that can be applied to both practice management and an
individual's investment portfolio. Along with a review of various asset
classes, the course discusses various investment strategies to reduce
risk and improve performance. (This course is not offered for CME
Credit.)

Trauma Resuscitation for the Community Doc (7:30am-5:30pm) Director -
Joanne Williams, MD FAAEM; Speakers - Heather Bailey, MD FAAEM; Richard
Boggs; MD FAAEM; Elcedo L. Bradley, RN MEd MPA; Julie Gorchynski, MD MS
FAAEM; John Kare, MD FACEP; Shahram Lotfipour, MD FAAEM; Kevin Parkes,
MD FAAEM; Will Scruggs, MD RDMS and Ghazala Sharieff, MD FAAEM
Most emergency physicians practice in non-Trauma Center community
hospitals.   This course covers management of trauma and multi-system
injury as well as risk management in trauma for the community emergency
physician.  "Trauma Resuscitation for the Community Doc" is a one-day
course and review in trauma resuscitation and emergency department
management from airway to the treatment of specific injuries.

Sunday, March 11, 2007
Advanced Ultrasound Course (8am-12:30pm) Directors - J. Christian Fox,
MD RDMS FAAEM and Michael Lambert, MD RDMS FAAEM; Speakers - Joe Colla,
MD; Seric Cusick, MD; JoAnne McDonough, MD MPH RDMS FAAEM; Joseph P.
Wood, MD JD RDMS FAAEM and Hubert Wong, MD RDMS FACEP Advanced Emergency
Ultrasound involves didactic and hands-on participation designed to push
your ultrasound skills a little further.  This half-day course will cut
right to the chase in ruling out deep vein thrombosis, differentiating
cellulitis from abscess, and perfecting the skills of needle
localization and guidance of procedures.

Advanced Wound Repair (8am-1pm)
Directors - Scott Sherman, MD FAAEM and D. Matthew Sullivan, MD
Complications of wound repair and healing are a common source of
malpractice claims for emergency physicians.  The Advanced Wound Repair
Workshop offers a 5-hour course to address the repair of complex wounds
and to bring the practitioner the most up-to-date data on wound repair.
The instructors will present evidence-based information and dispel some
of the common myths that persist in the care of wounds.  Participants
will receive hands-on instruction and have the opportunity to practice
the repair of uneven edges, corners, tissue defects, tendon lacerations
and much more.

Emergency Medicine in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring
Freedom: What have we learned? (8am-1pm) Director - Benjamin Harrison,
MD LTC MC FAAEM; Speakers - John McManus, MD LTC MC MCR FACEP; Sumera
Mehta, MD MAJ MC FAAEM and Jacob Roberts, DO MAJ MC FACEP This course is
designed for military and civilian emergency physicians who are
interested in cutting-edge medical lessons learned in the operational
theaters of Iraq and Afghanistan. Topics will primarily focus on
advances in management of trauma, with additional discussion on the role
of the military emergency physician in various operational roles.  This
half-day session will be interactive, using a panel discussion and
photographic/video case-based trauma scenarios to engage the audience. 

Presentation Skills and PowerPoint(r) for Emergency Physicians (8am-5pm)
Director - Joe Lex, MD FAAEM; Speaker - Indrani Sheridan, MD FAAEM This
hands-on workshop, limited to the first 24 registrants, will give you
dozens of hints to enhance your slides and make your presentations
unforgettable.  You will bring your own laptop with Office 2000 or later
already loaded.  We'll supply the power source, a CD full of useable
tools, and a syllabus full of hundreds of presentation tips.  You will
leave the workshop with your head full of new ideas for electrifying
slideshows.

Resuscitation for Emergency Physicians: The AAEM Course (8am-5:30pm)
Directors - William Brady, MD FAAEM and Doug Migden, MD FAAEM; Speakers
- Richard Harrigan, MD FAAEM; Michael Levy, MD; Andrew Perron, MD;
Robert Reardon, MD; Kevin Rodgers, MD FAAEM and Ghazala Sharieff, MD
FAAEM Resuscitation for Emergency Physicians (REP) is an integrated
resuscitation course for the Board Certified/Board Eligible emergency
physician. The REP course is an advanced course for clinicians that will
encompass a broad spectrum of topics including neonatal, pediatric and
adult resuscitation. Medical and trauma care as well as advanced
procedures will be covered.

This program will be the first integrated resuscitation course developed
by an emergency medicine professional society that is tailored to the
needs of emergency physicians.    
PREREQUISITE:  The 2007 course will require either Board Certification
or Residency Training in Emergency Medicine. 

To register for the Assembly please click here:
https://ssl18.pair.com/aaemorg/education/scientificassembly/registration
form.php

Visit
http://www.aaem.org/education/scientificassembly/sa07/07prelimprogram.pd
f to view a copy of the Preliminary Program with course descriptions.

**Please note that daylight savings time begins, Sunday, March 11, 2007.

Join us Monday, March 12, 2007, at 9:00pm for a unique Foundation event.
AAEM will be attending Penn & Teller in Las Vegas instead of our
traditional dinner event. The AAEM Foundation has secured a block of
tickets in an area ideal for viewing the show.  These tickets will be
sold for $100.00 each and 35% of the proceeds will go toward supporting
Foundation efforts.

Cyrus Shahpar & Brian Potts 
Managing Editors, CAL/AAEM News Service
University of California, Irvine

The CAL/AAEM Archives are available at: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/calaaem/

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