Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Guided Joint Injections Educational Activities


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Add to Calendar Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Guided Joint Injections Educational Activities 7/10/2024 8:30:00 AM 7/12/2024 5:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles For More Details: https://ucsd.cloud-cme.com/course/courseoverview?EID=4372 Description: TheUC San Diego Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Guided Joint Injections Educational Activitieshave been created to provide a comprehensive modular curriculum to teach point-of-care musculoskeletal ultrasound for the evaluation of ankles, knees, elbows, hips and spine, and to guide intra-articular needle placement for injections and aspirations. Small groups with a high faculty to participant ratio provide... UC San Diego, Hemophilia and Thrombosis Treatment Center false MM/DD/YYYY


Date & Location
Wednesday, July 10, 2024, 8:30 AM - Friday, July 12, 2024, 5:00 PM, UC San Diego, Hemophilia and Thrombosis Treatment Center, San Diego, CA

Target Audience
Specialties - Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine-Family Practice, Orthopaedic Surgery, Pediatrics, Radiation Oncology, Radiology
Professions - Fellow/Resident, Medical Assistant, Medical Student, Nurse, Nurse Assistant, Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Physician, Physician Assistant, Radiology Technician, Student Physical Therapist

Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (22.25 hours), ABS CC (22.25 hours), CPTA CEUs (2.25 hours), General Attendance (22.25 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (22.25 hours)

Overview

The UC San Diego Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Guided Joint Injections Educational Activities have been created to provide a comprehensive modular curriculum to teach point-of-care musculoskeletal ultrasound for the evaluation of ankles, knees, elbows, hips and spine, and to guide intra-articular needle placement for injections and aspirations. Small groups with a high faculty to participant ratio provides a rich and interactive learning environment with ample opportunity for hands-on practice with colleagues and patient volunteers. Course participants will learn basic ultrasound physics, how to operate ultrasound machines (including the use of small emerging small hand-held devices), sono-anatomy and sono-pathology of important arthritic conditions as well as ultrasound-guided joint injection techniques. The curriculum will include how to recognize joint bleeds and distinguish between simple and complex effusions, as well as the Joint Activity and Damage Exam (JADE), a validated joint ultrasound protocol for evaluation of hemophilic joints.

This program is offered several times annually, and is held in San Diego, California at the UC San Diego Health Hemophilia & Thrombosis Treatment Center at UC San Diego Health.

Course Agenda

NEW! The Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Guided Joint Injections Educational Activities are now CPTA accredited. California PT Professionals' CEUs apply to
Day 1 and Day 2 only.

Day 1 - Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training for Hemophilia and Other Arthritic Conditions: Elbow, Knee, Ankle, and JADE Protocol

Day 2 - Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training for Hemophilia and Other Arthritic Conditions: Hip, Shoulder, and Spine

Day 3 - NEW! The Joint Tissue Activity and Damage Exam (J.A.D.E.)

*Registrants may choose which days they wish to attend (one day or multiple days).

**Classroom with a 2:1, Student-to-Faculty Ratio

 

In order to attend the live, hands-on course, registrants must have completed the following pre-course online programs:  

Hemophilia provider registrants: Both the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training for Arthritic Conditions: Ankle, Knee and Elbow – Basics and Techniques Online Program and the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training in Hemophilia Online Program.

All other registrants: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training for Arthritic Conditions: Ankle, Knee and Elbow – Basics and Techniques Online Program

This is due to the accelerated nature of the new course format. 

If you would like to extend your learning experience, we offer an additional program, Vascular Ultrasound Mastery for Physicians: This is a two-day hands-on, in-person course, imaging tool to assist with diagnosis and monitoring of deep (and superficial) venous thromboembolism in the upper and lower extremities, as well as visualization of the neck vasculature (including jugular vein and carotid artery) and portal/hepatic vein system. The course will also identify abdominal structures such as the spleen, lymph nodes, liver, kidneys, bladder, and large abdominal vessels (particularly vena cava and aorta). Basic concepts of pathophysiological findings will be discussed.  Pediatric practitioners are welcome. Teaching will involve using hand-held ultrasound devices to pave the way for patient-centered care at bedside or in outpatient clinics. These courses are held Monday and Tuesday before the main 3-day course, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.


Statement of Need
Arthritic conditions are frequent, and benefit from symptomatic relief measures as a bridge to joint replacement. The clinical exam to diagnose and treat arthritic conditions, joint problems and musculoskeletal abnormalities, is unreliable, since range of motion deficits, warmth, swelling and pain are non-specific and don't permit the distinction between conditions. Therefore, point-of-care imaging is rapidly advancing and has become critical to practice state-of-the-art musculoskeletal medicine. High resolution Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (MSKUS) with Power Doppler capacity is an imaging technique, increasingly available due to technological advances, that permits point-of-care hand-held ultrasound scanning. Therefore, MSKUS is now introduced into many musculoskeletal disciplines, including orthopedics, rheumatology, sports medicine, primary care, and hemophilia treatment centers. MSKUS permits ultrasound-guided interventions on multiple levels. MSKUS is a rapid, convenient, highly sensitive and a non-invasive imaging method for the diagnosis of cartilage abnormalities, joint effusions, joint bleeds, muscle tears, tendon tears and inflammation, soft tissue masses, and peripheral nerve conditions. It is also a valuable tool to follow joint health long-term by individual assessment of synovial hypertrophy, inflammation and cartilage health. However, training to diagnose and manage arthritic conditions, is required. This CME course will provide online training in MSKUS, enabling providers to use MSKUS as point-of care imaging tool to assist with diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal pains.


Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:

  1. Describe MSKUS basics, physics and knobology
  2. Discuss the basic operations of an ultrasound machine
  3. Describe sono-anatomy of ankles, knees, elbows, hip (including sacroiliac joints), facet joints, and shoulders
  4. Interpret basic structural abnormalities by sono-pathological findings
  5. Apply standard MSKUS transducer positions for ankles, knees, elbows, hip (including sacroiliac joints), facet joints, and shoulders
  6. Describe the Joint Tissue Activity and Damage Exam (JADE) Hemophilia joint ultrasound protocol
  7. Describe the diagnosis of effusions
  8. Describe bloody from non-bloody effusions
  9. Describe a diagnostic MSKUS recognizing hemarthrosis, synovitis, and structural abnormalities (such as meniscus, tendons, and ligaments)
  10. Describe synovitis by Power Doppler
  11. Describe cartilage health, soft tissue and synovial hypertrophy, and osteochondral lesions
  12. Describe techniques and protocols for performing ultrasound-guided injections
  13. Apply ultrasound-guided needle placement
  14. Identify sonographic interfaces for accurate needle placement and injections
  15. Describe the benefit of ultrasound-guided injections of the hip and shoulder

Registration

$950 per day*

*For those funded, there will still be a $300 admin fee to cover cost of the course and this fee is non-refundable.

 


Accreditation
The University of California San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of California San Diego School of Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 22.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Maximum credit available per day as follows:

               Day 1: 8.0 credits

               Day 2: 7.0 credits

               Day 3: 7.25 credits

AAPA: AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 22.25 hours of Category 1 credit for completing this program.

Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME. For the purpose of relicensure, the California Board of Registered Nursing accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (report up to 22.25 hours of credit and list "CME Category 1" as the provider number).

Surgeons: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirement of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

CPTA: 
Day 1 & 2 – Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Guided Joint Injections 
Approved for 1.5 CEUs by CPTA #24-101

Day 3 – J.A.D.E. 
Approved for 0.75 CEUs by CPTA #24-248


Additional Information

Cancellation Policy
For paid registrants, if cancellation is received up to 30 days or more prior to the start of the conference, a cancellation fee of 50% the reg fee will apply. Cancellations received between 15-30 days prior to the conference date are subject to a cancellation fee of 75% of the reg fee. No refunds will be allowed for cancellations received within 15 days of the program date.

Sufficient enrollment must be met in order to present any course. UC San Diego reserves the right to cancel the course if enrollment is insufficient or due to other emergency-related events beyond our control. When classes are canceled, every effort will be made to contact you 30 days prior the scheduled course date and 100% of your registration fees will be reimbursed.

In the unlikely event that the course is canceled, UC San Diego and the Hemophilia & Thrombosis Treatment Center, is responsible only for a full refund of the registration fee and not for transportation, hotel accommodations or any miscellaneous expenses. We highly recommend that you protect your trip and/or airline tickets by buying trip protection coverage.

Accommodations
We are committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to all individuals. For general information or to request reasonable accommodations, please contact [email protected] at your earliest convenience. All in-person events are wheelchair accessible.  Service animals specifically trained to assist a person with a disability are welcome. No other animals, including pets, therapy animals, or emotional support animals, are allowed.

Cultural & Linguistic Competency and Implicit Bias
Continuing medical education (CME) providers are required by state Assembly Bills 1195 and 241, and the standards created by the California Medical Association (CMA), to include components that address cultural and linguistic competency and implicit bias in CME activities. The planners and presenters of this activity has been asked to provide meaningful consideration of these standards in the selection and presentation of content.  Additional information and resources are available on the UC San Diego CPD website. 

Audio / Video Consent
This event may be audio and/or video recorded for future use or distribution. For virtual events, any engagement during the presentation (audio, video, chat, Q&A submission, etc.) will be captured and included. Participant microphones and cameras are generally disabled by default, and can always be manually disabled by participant. Depending on the type of event, publication of the recordings might be on a publicly available website or on an access-restricted site. By registering for this event, you give UC San Diego the right to use your name, voice, image, written text, or video footage without compensation and waive the right to inspect or approve any document in which these appear.

Covid-19 Health & Safety
We follow state and local guidelines and protocols related to COVID-19 safety measures. At this time, no restrictions are in place for the State of California and San Diego County.  We encourage each attendee to decide what works for them and wear a face mask if that is their preferred choice.  We reserve the right to update COVID related expectations at any time, should local and state guidelines change and prevailing COVID rates increase.