35th Annual Series: Emergency Medicine & Acute Care 2020 - A Critical Appraisal (Jun 11 - 14, 2020)

35th Annual Series: Emergency Medicine & Acute Care 2020 - A Critical Appraisal is organized by The Center for Medical Education, Inc. and will be held from Jun 11 - 14, 2020 The Westin New York at Times Square, New York City, New York, United States of America. This Conference has been approved for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Join Us for a Focused, Evidence-Based Course That’s Designed to Update You on Over 32 Leading Edge Topics.

Serious CME | Top Destinations | Prime Times

You’ll experience an engaging, no-fluff, fast-paced, update of the literature surrounding key emergency medicine topics by an experienced, energetic faculty of emergency medicine educators.

Now Using Both EM:RAP’s Emergency Medical Abstracts and CorePendium

The Emergency Medicine & Acute Care Course is now collaborating with EM:RAP and will be using as its sources EM:RAP’s Emergency Medical Abstracts and the newly released (October, 2019) CorePendium.

Since 1977, Emergency Medical Abstracts has been searching hundreds of journals and providing audio summaries of the most important papers in emergency medicine.

CorePendium is a new internet-based comprehensive multimedia text specifically focusing on emergency medicine that is literature-based and updated every three months with the latest information from the medical literature.

Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is physicians, PAs and NPs who practice in emergency departments and are seeking an evidence-based, literature-focused update in controversial areas of emergency care.

Learning Objectives:
After attending this course, participants will be able to:
• Discuss key points from the literature regarding leading-edge Emergency Medicine topics
• Discuss literature-based recommendations for practice improvement
• Effectively translate the acquired strategies into improved diagnostics and subsequently implement a better treatment plan for their patients

Topics:
• Dizzy Patients – Is It Posterior Fossa?
• Syncope: Don’t Screw It Up
• No More LPs in Kids Age 29-60 Days?
• UTIs in Toddlers, Overdiagnosed?
• Treating Benign Vomiting / Diarrhea in Kids
• Can You Blame Otitis Media for a Fever?
• Atrial Fibrillation – Lots to Know - Part 1
• Atrial Fibrillation – Lots to Know - Part 2
• Pharyngitis – Still Figuring It Out in 2020
• Clinical Pneumonia / Negative CXR?
• Myths in Emergency Medicine
• The Top 8 Malpractice Diagnoses - Part 1
• The Top 8 Malpractice Diagnoses - Part 2
• US vs Chest X-ray vs CT?
• Sexual / Ethnic / Racial Bias in EM
• Pearls from Risk Management Monthly
• Pearls from ED Leadership Monthly
• Still Prescribing Fluoroquinolones?
• Who Needs a CTCA in the ED?
• Outpatient Orthopedics Pearls
• New ED Guidelines to Know About - Part 1
• New ED Guidelines to Know About - Part 2
• Psychiatric Patients – Big Time Risks
• DKA in Kids and Adults – Leading Edge
• Trauma Care Controversies
• ED Boarding is Very Bad for Patients!
• Visual Diagnosis Challenges - Part 1
• Visual Diagnosis Challenges - Part 2
• Important Recent EM Literature - Part 1*
• Important Recent EM Literature - Part 2*
• Optimizing ED Operations*
• Diagnostic and Therapeutic Controversies*

*Topics listed with an asterisk (*) are 90-minute faculty panel discussions; all other topics are 30 minutes. Topics subject to change without notice.