Upcoming Medical Conferences in Southampton

UK National Neonatal Transport Group Conference 2019 is organized by CFS Events Ltd and will be held from Nov 28 - 29, 2019 at Leonardo Royal Hotel Southampton Grand Harbour, Southampton, England, United Kingdom. Conference Description: This conference gives neonatal transport professionals an opportunity to exchange and share good practice, ideas and experiences, and produces annual statistics on transport activity throughout UK. Key topics for 2019 include:  • Education for transport teams and outreach  • ANNP and nurse transfers and the challenges  • The challenge of time  Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available. 

Women's Health Update is organized by MediConf UK Ltd and will be held on Dec 07, 2019 at Novotel Southampton Hotel, Southampton, England, United Kingdom. This CPD Conference has been approved for a maximum of 3 CPD Credits. Topics: • Menopause and PMS • Gynaecology • Contraception Women’s Health Part One Using case based discussion, understanding the importance of a life-course approach, we will explore a range of typical problems that women present to us in our primary care clinics to update and improve the care we provide. Cases to manage consultations using latest FSRH guidance including: • postnatal contraception in women aged over 40 • emergency contraception • managing bleeding problems on hormonal contraception • combined hormonal contraception Women’s Health Part Two Applying latest guidance to discuss the management of problems women commonly present with in primary care: • menopausal symptoms including HRT • prescribing • pelvic pain • menstrual problems • women's cancers Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Primary Care and Women's Health is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Apr 05 - 13, 2020 at Celebrity Apex, Southampton, England, United Kingdom. Target Audience: Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists Credits: • 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ • 14 ACPE Credits  • 14.0 Contact Hours  Description: To update providers dealing with women's health issues on the most current evidence-based information and practice guidelines in the context of a team-based approach to patient care. The course will attempt to enhance clinical decision-making among providers of women's health care including Ob/Gyns, midlevel practitioners, and primary care physicians. Topics: • Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: Newer Terminology and Management      ○ Apply current techniques of endometrial ablation as a viable alternative to hysterectomy • Treating and Screening for STD's: Current CDC Guidelines      ○ Utilize current CDC Guidelines in managing sexually-transmitted disease • Update on Hormonal Contraception: the Move towards LARC • Medications and Pregnancy: an Overview with newest FDA Guidelines      ○ Identify meds to use, meds to avoid, and meds to consider in pregnancy • Hormonal Alternatives in Managing Menopause: Guidelines from the North American Menopause Society      ○ Apply current hormone therapy guidelines to menopausal patients using an individualized approach • Communicating Skills: Medical Writing, Health Literacy, Medical Websites and more      ○ Assess and utilize objective health information from a range of internet sources for both providers and patients • Obesity and Pregnancy      ○ Apply currently recommended strategies in managing risks associated with obesity in pregnancy Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Hot Topics GP Update Course is organized by NB Medical Education and will be held on Apr 29, 2020 at Leonardo Royal Southampton Grand Harbour, Southampton, England, United Kingdom. Learning Credits: By attending the course you will earn 6 CPD credits. In each chapter we include a Quality Improvement Ideas box which provides suggestions to stimulate further continuing professional development such as audits and practice development. This additional work can be claimed as CPD credits.  For example, if you highlight improving end of life care as a major area for your PDP for the year ahead and subsequently do 7 hours work of reading the topic, looking at the resources, doing an audit, preparing a presentation, devising a new practice policy/guideline, you can claim a further 7 credits. Description: The Hot Topics GP Update Course, is the market leading GP Update course in the UK and Ireland. We are passionate about primary care, and committed to helping busy primary care professionals practice evidence-based medicine in an easy, time efficient way. 'Hot Topics' is the original and the UK's most popular one day course to update GPs with the latest developments in the literature and to serve as a platform for CPD and help to deliver better patient care. The course revolves around short, engaging presentations which merge recent clinical evidence with real life clinical scenarios and is fully supported by a full range of paper and electronic course materials. Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

Allergy, Immunology, and Infectious Diseases is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from May 01 - 09, 2020 at Celebrity Silhouette, Southampton, England, United Kingdom. Target Audience: Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists Credits: • 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ • 14 ACPE Credits  • 14 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program  • 14.0 Contact Hours Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Palliative Medicine and End of Life Care, Including Related Topics in Neurology is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Jun 20 - 28, 2020 at Anthem of the Seas, Southampton, England, United Kingdom. Target Audience: Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists Credits: • 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ • 14 ACPE Credits  • 14 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program  • Up to 14 MOC (Part II) points in the American Board of Anesthesiology® (ABA) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program  • 14.0 Contact Hours  • 3½ Hours of Pharmacology for NPs Program Purpose: Topics • Palliative Care Overview: History, Range of focus and Relation to Hospice Care  ○  To discover the roots of palliative medicine, its impact on traditional practice models and the relation/definition between palliative and hospice care • Advanced Care Directives  ○  To define the history/legalities of advanced care directives.  ○  To differentiate the various formats and techniques to advance end of life discussions.  ○  To examine the controversies in ACD such as surgical thirty day rules. • Pain Management and Palliative Care: Pharmaceutical review and a Review of the Issues of the Opioid Crisis  ○  To illustrate treatment options for critical and end of life medical conditions.  ○  To examine the roots and solutions of the opioid crisis particularly as related to palliative and hospice care. • COPD, CHF and ESRD in Palliative Care  ○  To utilize palliative medicine skills in the planning/treatment of these common chronic conditions. • Patient Driven Voluntary Cessation of Hydration and Nutrition  ○  To identify the phenomena of patient's elective decision in non acutely mortal situations to terminate their lives through active decision.  ○  To examine the practitioners role/obligations in such a situation • End of Life Symptomology and Management  ○  To summarize the common EOL symptoms.  ○  To demonstrate pharmaceutical and behavioral management of these conditions. • Reimbursement and Coverage Strategies  ○  To examine the CMS rules of remuneration for non palliative/hospice providers in palliative/hospice patients • Mental State - delirium, MCI and dementia • Can the Patient Hear Me? - awareness, unresponsiveness and coma • Stroke - follow-up and prognosis • Gap Analysis - quality approach to practice improvement • Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's in Palliative Care • Brain Death - what is it and diagnosis • The Plan for Monday - changes for ease of practice and improvement in care • Voluntary elimination/cessation of fluids and nutrition (Patient initiated cessation of sustenance)

Topics in Cardiology & Negotiating and Mediating Healthcare Disputes is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Jul 11 - 19, 2020 at Anthem of the Seas, Southampton, England, United Kingdom. Target Audience: Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists Credits: • 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ • 14 ACPE Credits  • 14 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program  • 14.0 Contact Hours  Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Women's Health & Healthcare Communications is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Oct 17 - 27, 2020 at Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas, Southampton, England, United Kingdom. Target Audience: Primary Care Physicians, Internists, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners Credits: • 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ • 20 ACPE Credits  • 20.0 Contact Hours  Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.