OVERVIEW

Interventional Pulmonology in Cancer Patients - Online Educational Materials is organized by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and will be held from Dec 01, 2018 - Sep 01, 2019. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Target Audience:
These materials should be of interest to board-eligible/certified pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, and trainees in pulmonary, critical care medicine, and thoracic surgery that have an interest in interventional pulmonology.

Estimated time to complete: 6 hours, 45 minutes

Educational Objectives:
• Utilize appropriate lung cancer screening techniques according to national guidelines and standards (knowledge, competence, performance)
• Implement the appropriate work up for lung cancer patients, using available staging modalities while understanding their individual limitations (knowledge, competence, performance)
• Describe the therapeutic options for the management of airway tumors (knowledge, competence)
• Interpret the available evidence for adjunctive therapies in the palliative and curative management of lung cancer (knowledge, competence)
• Utilize the principles of evidence-based medicine in evaluating new technologies (knowledge, competence)
• Incorporate evidence-based best practices for the management of recurrent malignant pleural effusions (knowledge, competence, performance, patient outcomes)

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.