National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) 2020 Annual Meeting Virtual Conference

National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) 2020 Annual Meeting Virtual Conference is organized by the National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME). The online CME course will be held from Oct 16 - 17, 2020.

Accreditation:
MedChi designates this “virtual” educational activity (“NAME 2020 Annual Meeting”) for a maximum of 18 (16.5 for the Annual Meeting portion and 1.5 for the Optional NAME Foundation Event) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.  Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Educational Objectives:
The objective of the NAME 2020 Annual Meeting is to increase basic and applied pathology knowledge, focusing on autopsy and forensic pathology.  The NAME 2020 Annual Meeting is designed to meet the participants’ education needs in the physician competency area of Medical Knowledge, as defined by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), and to support participants’ lifelong learning towards a goal of promoting patient safety and improving patient care.

At the completion of the NAME 2020 Annual Meeting, participants should be able to:
• Discuss medico-legal death investigation protocols;
• Describe regulations and competencies for medical examiners;
• Discuss the forensic investigation of accident- and trauma-related death;
• Discuss forensic science approaches to investigation of domestic violence and homicide; and
• Discuss forensic science approaches to sudden death in children and adult populations.