American College of Surgeons Thyroid, Parathyroid, and Neck Ultrasound

American College of Surgeons Thyroid, Parathyroid, and Neck Ultrasound is organized by University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) Continuing Medical Education and would be held durig Feb 19 - 20, 2017 at Moana Surfrider Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America. This CME conference has been approved with 7.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Objectives:
After completion of this course, the surgeon should be able to:
• Summarize general physics and principles of head/neck ultrasound;
• Describe the indications and goals for diagnostic head/neck ultrasound;
• Demonstrate the technique for performance of a diagnostic head/neck ultrasound;
• Recognize the normal sonographic anatomy of the head/neck;
• List and define the characteristics used to classify sonographically detected head/neck lesions as pathologic and/or benign versus malignant;
• Categorize head/neck masses according to their sonographically detected characteristics;
• Describe the indications for ultrasound-guided FNA biopsy of head/neck lesions;
• Demonstrate satisfactory performance of an ultrasound-guided FNA biopsy using a phantom model.