Advanced Orthopaedic and Joint MRI: Emphasis on Small Joints - September 21-24, 2011

Start Date Wednesday, September 21, 2011
End Date Saturday, September 24, 2011
Description OVERVIEW This advanced course provides practical approaches and state-of-the-art updates to interpreting wrist, hand, ankle, foot, toe, elbow, shoulder, hip, and knee joint MRI exams. PURPOSE Thirty-three (33) credit hours of CME highlight the indications, techniques, interpretive approaches, and consultative language for the major orthopaedic and rheumatologic MR examinations. Whether you’re a novice in MR or a 25-year veteran, any physician who attends this course will be intellectually challenged. COURSE CONTENT Lectures emphasize detailed wrist, hand, ankle, foot, toe, elbow, shoulder, hip, and knee joint discussions. The program includes anatomy and mechanisms of injury, and such representative topics as masses, synovial diseases, detailed shoulder and hip labral interpretation, and hip femoroacetabular impingement. EDUCATIONAL METHODS Lectures are supplemented by live case reading sessions allowing for more informal teaching, practical tips on the reporting of exams, and audience interaction. Cases which illustrate particular teaching points will be shown at each reading session.
Sponsor ProScan Imaging Education Foundation
Contact Name Beth Smith
Phone 1 513-924-5365
Fax 1 513-352-9424
E-mail bethsmith@proscan.com
Website http://www.proscaneducation.com
Format Conferences, Lecture, Seminar
Location ProScan Imaging Theater
5400 Kennedy Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio
45213
Credit Hours 33
Credit Category 1
Price $1595.00
Register by date Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Early Registration Price $1495.00
Early Registration Date Friday, August 19, 2011
Specialties Chiropractic, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine/Practice, Hand Surgery, Orthopaedics/Orthopedics, Pain Management, Physician's Assistant, Preventive Medicine, Radiology, Sports Medicine, Surgery (General), Plastic Surgery, Other, Multiple Specialties, Nurse Practitioner, Nurse, Primary Care, Musculoskeletal System, Physical Medicine
Topic(s) Advanced Orthopaedic
Objectives Identify normal anatomy and variations, as well as pathology of the musculoskeletal system; Recognize indications and applications of magnetic resonance imaging and other advanced imaging modalities for abnormalities of bone and soft tissues; Discuss a multidisciplinary approach to patient management allowing for practice improvement and better patient care.