Key Notes on CME
Several Weeks
The Texas Orthopaedic Association does not have a program that automatically generates CME certificates once the evaluation form is completed. It will take CME several weeks to generate the CME certificate and e-mail them to you.
June 1: Deadline to Submit Evaluations for CME Credit
June 1 is the deadline to submit an evaluation to claim CME for this event.
Questions?
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Claim CME
Note: These links will go live once the talks have been completed for each day.
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Click here to claim CME for Wednesday
Agenda
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Disclosures
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TOA CME Statements
Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Texas Medical Association (TMA) through the joint providership of Texas Orthopaedic Association and Texas Chapter of NAEMSP. The Texas Orthopaedic Association is accredited by TMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Texas Orthopaedic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 16.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits(s). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Ethics Hour
Monday morning’s presentation, The Burr in My Saddle – Legal Headaches We All Have Questions About, has been designated by the Texas Orthopaedic Association for 2.0 credit(s) of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.
Possible CME Per Attendee
Monday: 6.25
Tuesday: 7.0
Wednesday: 3.5
Total All Three Days: 16.75
Global Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this meeting, learners should be able to:
| * Discuss the role of the EMS director in system design and maintenance. * Apply up-to-date practices to aid in building and maintaining core knowledge and skills. * Describe the role of the EMS director in establishing the standard and philosophy of care to patients. |
Mitigation Statement
All relevant financial relationships were mitigated by the program committee prior to the activity.
Financial Disclosures
The intent of this disclosure is to allow the Texas Orthopaedic Association (TOA) the opportunity to mitigate any relevant financial relationships to assure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all of its CME activities. All faculty and planners of TOA-sponsored activities are expected to disclose to TOA all financial relationships with any ineligible company within the prior 24 months.
An indication of the participant’s disclosure appears after his or her name as does the ineligible company or institution that provided the support.
The Texas Orthopaedic Association (TOA) does not view the existence of these disclosed interests or commitments as necessarily implying bias or decreasing the value of the author’s participation at the meeting.
Ineligible company: any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Examples of financial relationships:
• Employee
• Researcher
• Consultant
• Advisor
• Speaker
• Independent Contractor (Including Contracted Research)
• Royalties or Patent Beneficiary
• Executive Role
• Ownership Interest
Individual stocks and stock options should be disclosed; diversified mutual funds do not need to be disclosed. Research funding from ineligible companies should be disclosed by the principal or named investigator even if that individual’s institution receives the research grant and manages the funds.
Description
This meeting is designed to identify areas of recent research in emergency medicine relevant to EMS medical directors. This information will be transmitted through scientific paper presentations, question and answer sessions, presentations on surgical techniques and current concepts and symposiums.
Statement of Need
A need for this educational activity has been determined based on focus groups consisting of EMS medical directors.