Program Description: 

The Pathology CP Conference is designed to provide both didactic teaching around current clinical pathology issues and interactive discussion of current issues confronting the clinical laboratories.  Pathology residents are assigned current cases that illustrate important, problematic, or interesting issues in the particular Clinical Pathology Area in which they are rotating.  Presentations are developed under the guidance of teaching faculty, and are designed to occupy one half of the one-hour time frame.  These are intended to be highly interactive case presentations with a didactic portion that typically involves an in depth literature review. The second half of the conferences involves presentation of challenging on-call cases, with broad input from trainees and faculty regarding appropriate handling of such cases, including technical, reporting, medical, and laboratory management issues.

Clinical pathology encompasses the broad field of non-anatomic laboratory medicine.  It includes fields as diverse as clinical chemistry, molecular diagnostics, and transfusion medicine, and effectively intersects with every area of clinical medicine.  As such, the volume of information needed to competently practice clinical pathology is enormous, and each sub-discipline within clinical pathology is advancing rapidly due to continuous progress in knowledge and technology.  Furthermore, many patient care issues are cross multiple CP disciplines, yet they are often handled in “silos.”  This exercise promotes robust interdisciplinary discussion of patient care issues in the laboratory.  Additionally, lab management issues are an important part of clinical pathology practice, yet few educational exercise address competencies in this area.  Finally, this conference will routinely address issues of systems-based practice and practice-based learning and improvement, competencies that are traditionally difficult to address in CME programs.

Learning objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to discuss important current issues in the various disciplines of clinical pathology.
  2. Participants will be able to place laboratory issues in a clinical context, and be able to provide timely and appropriate consultation to clinicians.
  3. Participants will be able to critically analyze a body of literature related to a specific laboratory topic and develop a best-practice approach to laboratory medicine.
  4. Participants will be able to discuss the performance characteristics of various laboratory tests, and understand their clinical value and their limitations.
  5. Participants will understand the basic technical aspects of various laboratory methodologies.
  6. Participants will become familiar with important aspects of daily laboratory management.
ACCME Accreditation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
AMA Credit Designation:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this Live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Hours of Participation for Allied Health Professionals:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this activity for up to 1.0 hours of participation for continuing education for allied health professionals.
 

Contact

Name: 
Patricia Wolf
Phone number: 
+1 (414) 805-8449
Series date: 
07/01/2013 - 11:00am CDT to 01/31/2015 - 12:00pm CST
Series location: 
Dynacare Lab Building
9200 West Wisconsin Avenue
Pathology Aministration Conference Room 247
Milwaukee, WI 53226
United States

Sessions

Sessionsort descending Date
Pathology CP Conference - December 4, 2014 12/04/2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm CST
Pathology CP Conference - February 13, 2014 02/13/2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm CST
Pathology CP Conference - February 20, 2014 02/20/2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm CST
Pathology CP Conference - February 27, 2014 02/27/2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm CST
Pathology CP Conference - February 6, 2014 02/06/2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm CST
Pathology CP Conference - January 16, 2014 01/16/2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm CST
Pathology CP Conference - January 2, 2014 01/02/2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm CST
Pathology CP Conference - January 23, 2014 01/23/2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm CST
Pathology CP Conference - January 30, 2014 01/30/2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm CST
Pathology CP Conference - January 9, 2014 01/09/2014 - 11:00am to 12:00pm CST

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