Please register by Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Review the workshop topics offered below and rank your top five choices in order of your interest. You will be assigned only TWO procedure workshops based on a "first come-first served" basis and availability in the workshops.
This workshop will allow participants an opportunity to practice applying commonly used casts and splints. This includes working with plaster, OCL, and fiberglass. Participants will both apply and remove casts and splints on each other.
Participants in the gyn procedure workshop will be introduced to the concepts of sounding the uterus, placing Mirena and Paragard IUDs, and performing endometrial biopsies. Participants will also be introduced to basic colposcopic techniques and colposcopic equipment.
This workshop will introduce participants to the basics of prenatal ultrasound. Topics including physics, limited and complete scanning will be discussed and participants will be given an opportunity to do some hands-on scanning of a woman near the end of her pregnancy.
The OB Advanced Skills workshop will include lecture, discussion, and then hands-on practice of management of shoulder dystocia, vacuum-assisted delivery, and forceps delivery. Other topics will be discussed as time allows.
This workshop will discuss and demonstrate joint injection techniques for common musculoskeletal conditions including tennis elbow, knee osteoarthritis, rotator cuff syndrome and others. Participants will be able to practice anatomical landmark location on human subjects and perform injections on mechanical models. This is active and fun.
Due to overwhelming demand this workshop is full. This workshop will provide you with the opportunity to learn basic principles and practice skills of suturing, performing skin biopsies, and repairing lacerations using pigs feet models.
Have you worried that you might have to deliver a baby the next time you are on an airplane and you hear the dreaded "Is there a doctor in the house?" Well, this session will certainly not make you an expert but will give you hands-on practice with the basics of: (1) how to use that wheel thing to "date" a pregnancy and how to use the handheld Doppler to check fetal heart tones, (2) how to check a laboring patient's cervix, and (3) how to physically deliver a baby (in other words - where to put your hands)
To provide some familiarity with patterns seen in electrocardiograms and to provide a system for accurate interpretation. Electrocardiography is a fundamental part of cardiovascular assessment. It is an essential tool for investigating cardiac arrhythmias and is also useful in diagnosing cardiac disorders such as myocardial infarction. Although computerized interpretation available, it is considered unreliable, making competency and interpretation an essential skill.