LINK:  Telephone #:415-655-0003      Meeting Access #: 2597 472 7647          Password:  Lecture

Medicine Grand Rounds is designed to review existing cases and apply the most current evidence-based knowledge and guidelines to establish treatment plans for improved patient outcomes.

The purpose of the Internal Medicine Grand Rounds series is to provide the Internal Medicine physician audience with lectures to allow physicians to improve techniques involved in the diagnosis and management of disease often seen by Internal Medicine Physicians.

OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to: (1) Identify key issues in Congress, White House, and agencies that could directly impact the practice of medicine, (2) Discuss the importance of advocacy regarding Congressional and agency influence over the practice of medicine, (3) List and explain key issue areas and learn how to influence policymaking regarding the practice of medicine.  Specific issues:  Patients Over Paperwork/Regulatory Relief, the 340B Drug Pricing Program, and Home Health.

FACULTY DISCLOSURE:  Margaret “Peggy” Tighe, faculty of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.    

PLANNERS DISCLOSURES:  None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

ACCREDITATION: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

DESIGNATION:  The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  

ABIM MOC:  Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

For information, please contact Denise Ralston at Denise.Ralston@BSWHealth.org