Pacific Coast Reproductive Society (PCRS) 2024 Annual Meeting

Pacific Coast Reproductive Society (PCRS) 2024 Annual Meeting is organized by the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society (PCRS) and will be held from Mar 20 - 23, 2024 at Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, California, United States of America.

Statement of Need/Program Description
The Pacific Coast Reproductive Society annual meeting is designed to provide Continuing Medical Education (CME) to physicians and allied healthcare professionals. The Pacific Coast Reproductive Society’s (PCRS) global commitment to exceptional patient care is embodied in the continuing medical education of physicians, their teams, and allied professionals. Promoting the highest standards of clinical practice, patient safety, and improved patient outcomes, related to the treatment of infertility, is consistent with the principles and goals of PCRS.

The Pacific Coast Reproductive Society’s CME program is based on the integration of clinical practice, scientific research, and education in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) Consistent with these values, the following goals of PCRS/CME are intended to:

• Cultivate an atmosphere for thinking differently, unconventionally, or from new perspectives
• Offer thought-provoking programming enabling physicians, their teams, and allied healthcare professionals to provide superior medical care for patients
• Update or reinforce knowledge of current concepts, techniques, or practices
• Promote innovation in clinical practice and research
• Foster the integration of advances in relevant scientific and clinical research ensuring clinicians access to timely and relevant information
• Enable clinicians to recognize, practice, discuss, and apply new concepts, technologies, or practices, as they relate to the management of infertility in their specific area of clinical practice or research
• Further the identification and recognition of ethical, psychological, and cultural patient concerns
• Provide a forum for clinicians, academicians, and other professionals in allied fields to create or renew collegial and collaborative relationships that enhance their effectiveness, promote high standards of clinical practice, and patient safety, and improve patient outcomes
• Facilitate a career-long continuum of medical education
• PCRS accomplishes these goals through its Annual Meeting, which includes multiple disciplines (in reproductive medicine) in an educational program attracting regional, national, and international participants

Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:

• Recognize the legal issues raised by the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs for ART providers and patients
• Apply knowledge of disparities in reproductive health to clinical practice, to improve access to fertility care
• Appraise the real-life, clinical risk-benefit of mosaic embryo transfers
• Discover tools to communicate with policymakers, as well as engage patients and colleagues in activism
• Understand the impact of corporate IVF on the IVF practice, as well as understand the current and projected needs of personnel
• Discuss lifestyle factors known to impact male fertility
• Integrate knowledge about oocyte quantity and quality with fertility success, as well as understand how ovarian ageing is associated with cardiovascular risk
• Integrate knowledge of the various aspects of cell-cell interactions that now shape our contemporary understanding of ovarian physiology, and serve as a foundation for improvements in technology required for clinical application.
• Assess the evidence and lack of evidence for the use of immunotherapies in fertility treatment
• Understand the effects of COVID-19 on reproductive outcomes, as well as the available safety and efficacy data for COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy
• Discuss the relationship between infertility and sexual functioning
• Classify categories of penetrative disorders and develop appropriate treatment plans/referrals based on patient presentation.
• List the emerging treatments for endometriosis