Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Department of Surgery Teaching Conference

Surgical Morbidity & Mortality Conference

Provided by University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and the Department of Surgery

Speaker: Brian Shames, MD
Date: 1/23/2019
Time: 7:15 – 8:15 a.m.
Location: Massey Auditorium, Main Building, AG058
Target Audience: Department of Surgery Faculty, Residents, Mid-Levels/Clinicians, Medical Students

Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to):
1. Discuss strategies for preventing common surgical complications.
2. Discuss strategies for recognizing and treating common surgical complications.
3. Discuss and implement evidence based surgical literature conclusions to improve surgical outcomes.

Accreditation: The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

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

Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content.

Neither the activity director, planning committee members, nor the speaker, Dr. Shames, have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation.

Dr. Shames will not be discussing the off-labeled use of any product.

This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it.

Evaluations: Participants are required to complete an electronic evaluation in order to obtain CME Credits. An email from http://MyEvaluation.com with instructions will be sent to participants. Please complete the evaluation within one week of receiving the email.

If you do not receive an evaluation assignment from http://MyEvaluations.com within 10 business days of this activity, please contact the Department that hosted this activity (indicated above) to ensure that your http://MyEvaluations.com account is set up and your participation in this activity was forwarded to the CME office.

This material is confidential and is utilized as defined in Connecticut State Statute Sec19a-25 (formerly Sec 19-6a) for evaluating and improving the quality of health care rendered.

This course reviews the requirements of the OSHA Laboratory Standard and the University’s Chemical Hygiene Plan, the health and physical hazards of chemicals, and appropriate work practices, standard operating procedures, controls, and emergency procedures used to protect employees from hazards in laboratories. Attendance at the initial classroom training is a prerequisite for the annual retraining through HuskyCT. For more information, contact Brent Lewchik (860-486-4927)

opics discussed include principles/concepts of biosafety, agent classes and safety levels, engineering controls, personal protection equipment, work practices, biological agent use and transport information and biological waste management issues. For more information about this course, contact Bill Field (860-486-1376)