Autoimmune Cytopenias: Current Management and Emerging Therapies

Rheumatology Grand Rounds

Friday, January 19, 2018 at 8:00 AM


This grand round has already taken place.


CarePoint East - Columbus, OH
January 19th, 2018
1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit Hours

Description

Continuing medical education has been shown to improve practice of medicine by practitioners based on numerous outcome studies (BMC Med Educ. 2014. 1051; J Adv Med Educ Prof 2014 2: 120 – 5; Acad Med 2015, 90 : 33-9. )Hands on, interactive approaches where the attendees are active participants in the teaching process are effective tools for changing and improving health care.  Topics covered over the two year cycle encompass the full breadth of rheumatology curriculum and cover common problems encountered in our clinics. Diagnosis and treatment options for rheumatic diseases are constantly evolving due to the ever changing findings in medical literature. Physicians are not able to interpret the vast amount of medical information, therefore find it difficult to integrate these new findings into their practices. It is our goal to focus on cutting edge diseases management problems and key advances in practice over the past ten years.

 

A specific area we have identified as a practice gap involves state of the art approach to treatment of hand osteoarthritis.  Specifically, physicians were unaware of a new vivo study suggesting that aging and joint osteoarthritis affect the articular shape of the carpometacarpal joint, but that, in contrast to previously held beliefs, inherent sex differences are not responsible for the higher incidence of carpometacarpal joint osteoarthritis in women. (Halilaj E, Moore, DC, Laidlaw DH, Got CJ, Weiss AP, Ladd AL, Crisco JJ. J Bimech. 2014 May 15).

 

Another practice gap we have encountered is new complications of diabetes affecting biomechanical function. There are a number of new advances in our understanding of diabetes and musculoskeletal function.  According to the recent article: Lu MC, Yan ST, Yin WY, Koo M, Lai NS. PLoS One. 2014 Jul 2; 9(7):e101528. doi: 10.1371, analysis indicated that the odds of developing rheumatoid arthritis were more prominent in younger females (20 to 44 years of age) with type 2 diabetes. Physicians may be unaware of this correlation.

 

Each lecture topic will help fill gaps in our current knowledge base and lead to improved patient outcomes.  The format of teaching is a weekly didactic lecture series with key objectives outlined by presenters. On occasion, there may be hands on teaching.  Case presentations and/or review of recent journal articles will also be covered through these formats. Objective measures that we utilize for patient outcomes include patient satisfaction surveys. Each year, we have noted that our patient satisfactions scores have improved. Although this is an indirect measure of patient outcomes, we believe that patient satisfaction with our practice is an indicator of one aspect of improvement. Other objective measures include success on certification and recertification examinations. Finally, we evaluate mortality statistics on an annual basis (disease category based) as a measure of performance and patient outcomes.%3%3%3%3%3%3%3%3%3

Dates and Times

Start: 1/19/2018 8:00 AM
End: 1/19/2018 8:00 AM

Objectives

1.         1.  Assess differential diagnosis

 

2.         2.  Distinguish consultative functions of Rheumatologists when clinically appropriate

 

3.         3.  Apply treatment of Rheumatic Diseases

 

4.         4.  Assist those preparing to take the certification or recertification examinations%3%3%3%3%3%3%3%3%3

Speakers

  • Dr. Kerry Rogers, MD
    • Autoimmune Cytopenias: Current Management and Emerging Therapies

Location

CarePoint East
543 Taylor Ave
Columbus, OH 43203

Accreditation Statement

The Ohio State University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The Ohio State University designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) . Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.