2023 Preconference Workshops held in conjunction with the FMEC Annual Meeting.
To register for preconferences, visit FMEC 2023 Annual Meeting Registration Form. 
(Note: Registration for preconferences will open in May) 

Thursday, OCTOBER 12

ALSO Instructor Course (12pm to 5pm)

• Course Director: Scott Hartman, MD  
• Agenda - Stay tuned for more details
• Registration deadline: September 28, 2023 - NO ON SITE REGISTRATIONS

Registration Fees:
Physicians/Healthcare Professionals: FMEC Member: $650 | Non-Member: $675
Resident/Fellow: FMEC Member $550 | Non-Member: $575

Course overview: The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) sponsors Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO®), an evidence-based, interprofessional, and multidisciplinary training program that equips the entire maternity care team with skills to manage obstetric emergencies effectively. The ALSO Instructor Course is a half-day course that prepares current ALSO Providers with the skills and knowledge they need to effectively teach ALSO courses. Participants attending an ALSO Course learn practical, standardized team-based approaches to managing emergency situations, such as postpartum hemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, breech delivery, cord prolapse, and maternal resuscitation. Become an ALSO Instructor, and learn about adult learning theory and faculty development, as well as how to offer effective feedback, teach in small group workstations, and evaluate participants.

• CME Credit: The AAFP has reviewed ALSO Instructor Course and deemed it acceptable for up to 3.25 live AAFP Prescribed credits. Term of Approval is from 10/12/2023 to 10/12/2023. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
• Course pre-requisite: Instructor registrants must have a current ALSO Provider card.
  Current ALSO Provider status as of October 12, 2023, is REQUIRED.
  Please click the following link to view ALSO Provider Courses offered.
• All course material is included in the registration fee
• Lunch is provided

• Discuss educational tools that can be used when giving feedback to ALSO course participants.
• Describe how to assist participants in dealing with questions and conflicts that can occur during the workstations.
• Demonstrate teaching capabilities by providing hands-on role-play utilizing maternal-fetal manikins along with timely feedback in order to adapt teaching methods to various situations.
• Demonstrate the ability to facilitate group discussion, as well as consider ways to implement faculty and learner feedback to enhance the educational experience.

Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Workshop (1 pm to 5 pm)

Faculty 
Kevin Bergman, MD, Co-founder and CEO, Global Ultrasound Institute
Mena Ramos, MD, Co-founder and Director of Education, Global Ultrasound Institute
Other faculty to be announced

Registration Fees:
Healthcare Professionals: $320/ Reduced member rate $300
Residents: $320/Reduced member rate $300
Students: n/a (students should not attend)

Course Overview: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is rapidly becoming a standard of care for clinicians and the fifth pillar of physical examination. POCUS has the power to transform bedside diagnosis, clinical decision-making, and procedures for family medicine. But training is essential for clinicians who want to become confident, competent POCUS practitioners. The FMEC is collaborating with the Global Ultrasound Institute (GUSI), founded by family physicians, to offer this preconference and meet this critical need. With significant hands-on experience, the preconference will cover POCUS basics as well as a selection of specific techniques (cardiac, pulmonary, abdominal, renal, OB, DVT, procedural, ocular, musculoskeletal and soft tissue). This session is geared toward family medicine faculty, and the instructor-to-learner ratio will be approximately 1 to 4. NOTE: This workshop is repeated Friday morning with the same content. Please register for only 1 POCUS workshop.

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

• Have POCUS skills that will allow them to improve clinical outcomes, facilitate more rapid diagnoses, shorten time to definitive treatment, reduce failure and complication rates during procedures, and improve patient satisfaction.
• Begin to develop a curriculum and become faculty for POCUS in their family medicine residency program.
• Work toward credentialing and privileging in the use of POCUS at their home institution. 

Friday, OCTOBER 13 (ALL PRECONFERENCE TIMES ARE 8 AM - 12 PM)

Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Workshop

Faculty 
Kevin Bergman, MD, Co-founder and CEO, Global Ultrasound Institute
Mena Ramos, MD, Co-founder and Director of Education, Global Ultrasound Institute
Other faculty to be announced

Registration Fees:
Healthcare Professionals: $320/ Reduced member rate $300
Residents: $320/Reduced member rate $300
Students: n/a (students should not attend)

Course Overview: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is rapidly becoming a standard of care for clinicians and the fifth pillar of physical examination. POCUS has the power to transform bedside diagnosis, clinical decision-making, and procedures for family medicine. But training is essential for clinicians who want to become confident, competent POCUS practitioners. The FMEC is collaborating with the Global Ultrasound Institute (GUSI), founded by family physicians, to offer this preconference and meet this critical need. With significant hands-on experience, the preconference will cover POCUS basics as well as a selection of specific techniques (cardiac, pulmonary, abdominal, renal, OB, DVT, procedural, ocular, musculoskeletal and soft tissue). This session is geared toward family medicine faculty, and the instructor-to-learner ratio will be approximately 1 to 4. NOTE: This workshop is repeated Friday morning with the same content. Please register for only 1 POCUS workshop.

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

• Have POCUS skills that will allow them to improve clinical outcomes, facilitate more rapid diagnoses, shorten time to definitive treatment, reduce failure and complication rates during procedures, and improve patient satisfaction.
• Begin to develop a curriculum and become faculty for POCUS in their family medicine residency program.
• Work toward credentialing and privileging in the use of POCUS at their home institution 

Cross-cultural Communication and Its Impact on Health Equity

Faculty:
Sarah Inés Ramírez, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Penn State Cancer Institute
Other faculty to be announced

Course Overview: This highly-interactive preconference will use a flipped learning model, role playing, and breakout sessions to provide attendees with practical skills and experiences. Registrants will receive instruction one month before the event to read and/or view key literature and media (time commitment estimated at under 1 hour). Onsite, faculty will present on cross-cultural communication and lead participants through an identity exercise, illuminating ways we experience power, privilege and oppression in society in intersecting ways. The “words matter” philosophy examines how language can perpetuate or dismantle structural racism. Attendees will learn how their choice of words impact racial and health justice in medicine and can either empower people or marginalize them. A unique and fun exercise with role playing as patients, physicians and medical interpreters will help illustrate how dysfunctional communication impacts health. Finally, attendees will develop plans to use what they learned in their own institutions and affect positive change for patients and providers.

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

• discuss their experiences and identities in a personal way in the work setting to create shared learning experiences with colleagues.
• avoid using stigmatizing, pejorative, or otherwise negative terms and language during encounters with patients and providers.
• implement 3-5 steps at their residency program or other institution to advance health equity and increase allyship.

Registration Fees:
Healthcare Professionals: $150/Reduced member rate $100
Residents: $150/Reduced member rate $100
Students: $75 

Learning Collaboratives: Meeting New ACGME Requirements 

Faculty:
Leon McCrea II, MD, MPH, Drexel University College of Medicine, Tower Health Family Medicine Residency
Other faculty to be announced

Course Overview: ACGME guidelines effective July 1, 2023, strongly encourage family medicine residencies to partner with other programs through regional learning collaboratives to share resources and attain educational and community aims. The FMEC has been running learning collaboratives and learning communities across training programs in the region for many years, on topics such as chronic pain, reproductive care, integrative medicine, diversity in the primary care pathway, and more. Join FMEC leaders at this preconference to develop skills to lead effective collaborative projects while also making plans to meet ACGME requirements with FMEC and your colleagues. The session will address collaborative models, definitions, and leadership; defining and measuring outcomes; and project management of learning communities. A portion of the session will be devoted to engaging participants in existing and new collaboratives being developed by FMEC members.

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

• Develop a plan for their residency program to meet ACGME requirements regarding learning collaboratives.
• Structure a learning collaborative or community with well-defined goals, data collection strategies, and outcomes.
• Take the next steps to initiate a new collaborative activity or join an existing collaborative.

Registration Fees:
Healthcare Professionals: $150/Reduced member rate $100
Residents: $150/Reduced member rate $100
Students: $75 

IMPLICIT Network Meeting

Faculty:
Mario DeMarco, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Community Health, Director of Family Medicine Obstetrics, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania
Maha Shafqat, MPH, Project Manager, Research Institute, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health
Other faculty to be announced

Course Overview: The IMPLICIT Interconception Care project is an evidenced-based approach used to screen mothers during well-child visits (WCVs) from 0-24 months and address maternal risks such as tobacco use, maternal depression, family planning, and multivitamin with folic acid intake. Data collected in the past 10 years indicates that moms are present at ~95% of the WCVs. This makes WCVs an opportune time to assess and address maternal needs and risks with the aim to improve maternal health and reduce premature and low birth weight infants. The IMPLICIT Network has also initiated a “4th Trimester Care” project to improve maternal risks in the time period following childbirth. This network meeting will provide education and quality improvement instruction for IMPLICIT Network sites. Intended for IMPLICIT Network sites only.

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

• Implement clinic/program-wide screening of new mothers for risks such as tobacco use, maternal depression, family planning, etc.
• Screen new families for unmet contraceptive needs during the first 24 months following childbirth.
• Conduct data collection and continuing quality improvement across clinic site(s) with regard to interconception care and 4^th trimester care.

Registration Fees:
Healthcare Professionals: $0/Reduced member rate $0
Residents: $0/Reduced member rate $0
Students: $0 

FACTS About Fertility

Faculty:  
Marguerite Duane, MD, MHA, Co-founder and Executive Director, FACTS
Other faculty to be announced

Course Overview: FACTS about Fertility will inform attendees about opportunities to expand their knowledge of the science of tracking the female cycle and its role in restoring reproductive health and family planning. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recognizes the menstrual cycle as the fifth vital sign. As such, this session will demonstrate how the cycle chart can aid in monitoring women’s health, as well as its use in the diagnosis and management of common women’s health concerns. FACTS leaders will equip colleagues with patient education resources, including an evidence-based shared decision-making tool that medical professionals may use to provide information to patients on these methods. We will also update participants on ACA coverage for fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs) and discuss how these methods may be implemented in Title X clinics. The session will conclude with a presentation by student and resident ambassadors, who will share about the opportunity to participate in research, present at conferences and discuss the impact of the program on their professional development.

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to: 

• Counsel patients about modern, evidence based FABMs, sharing information on their underlying research, effectiveness rates, and challenges of use.
• Use FABMs to diagnose and manage common women’s health conditions, including abnormal uterine bleeding, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
• Use a functional medicine approach to common female health conditions to find the root cause of symptoms and work toward their alleviation. 

Registration Fees:
Healthcare Professionals: $150/Reduced member rate $100
Residents: $150/Reduced member rate $100
Students: $75 

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