10th Annual Ponte Vedra Beach Cardiovascular Symposium

The 10th Annual Ponte Vedra Cardiovascular Symposium is sponsored by the North Florida Cardiovascular Education Foundation (a Florida 501-c3 Non-Profit Medical Education Foundation) for the principal purpose of providing the highest quality of evidence based scientific information in clinical Cardiology. This 10th Annual Symposium will maintain the highest standards established by previous years symposium, namely to present this high quality professional education that is immediately applicable to improve patient care in a format that promotes active interaction between the attendee and the expert faculty in a CME environment that is free of commercial bias.

The emphasis of the program is on clinical knowledge, based on the best evidence based scientific information available. Each faculty presenter is instructed to provide this information in a lecture format that initially emphasizes the basic scientific knowledge base and then relate this data to support the clinical information presented. In addition, panel discussions are organized to allow attendees to expand understanding of both the basic and clinical information. The intended audience is Clinical Cardiologists, Cardiovascular Associate providers (ARNP, PA), as well as Internal Medicine Physicians, Emergency Physicians and others with a commitment to excellence in clinical care of patients with Cardiovascular disease.

The 10th Annual Ponte Vedra Cardiovascular Symposium fulfills the need of this regional population of Cardiovascular providers by providing a forum for in depth presentation of the evidence based medicine in specific areas of Cardiology in a format that encourages direct interaction with the expert faculty. This symposium has traditionally made use of the case presentation model, with each lecture prefaced by a case presentation from one of the moderators. This case then forms the base for more detailed discussion of the clinical application of the information presented by the expert faculty during the panel discussion time period. Another unique feature of this clinical meeting is that an audience interactive system will be utilized frequently during the symposium (before, during and after presentations). This technology allows for immediate feedback of the understanding of the information presented by the speaker, as well as a means of direct polling of the attendees to determine opinions in areas of disagreement or controversy. For example, the faculty can immediately determine the opinions of the attendees on their confidence in data from a recently published clinical trial and its application to clinical practice.

The 10th Annual Ponte Vedra Cardiovascular Symposium directly relates to the attendee CME learners by the most fundamental of all teaching methods: direct interaction with the faculty expert in the field. As educational needs are determined by the methods cited above, the North Florida Cardiovascular Education Foundation Board of Directors works closely with the program directors to develop the expert faculty needed to provide the unbiased CME information to meet these educational needs.

The North Florida Cardiovascular Education Foundation Board is confident that the 10th Annual Ponte Vedra Cardiovascular Symposium will again meet and exceed our CME goals by presenting the highest quality of cardiovascular professional education information to our large group of attendees focused on the practice of clinical cardiology.