News
New Board Members
ACMEC welcomes Dr. Steve Writer and Dr. Richard Aguilar to the Board of Directors. Dr. Writer will represent the medical staff of Saint Alphonsus RMC and Dr. Aguilar will represent Mercy Medical Center. We are grateful for their willingness to serve.
IMA/Boise
The Idaho Medical Associations Annual Meeting will be held in Boise this year. For those interested in getting some extra CME mid-summer this is a great opportunity. On July 17th at the Center on the Grove we will present five hours of Category I CME. Topics will include Prescription Drug Abuse and Diversion, Childhood Obesity, Lifetime Radiation Dosing and End of Life-Physician Decision Making among others. Our faculty is national in scope and will provide an opportunity for discussion and debate on these current issues facing the patient population.
Need CME Credit for Re-Licensure
Many practitioners find themselves short on the number of credits required for re-licensure in June. ACMEC has previously tried to help with DVD's of programming that was accreditable. Unfortunately, there were never enough DVD's to go around. ACMEC now provides our Grand Rounds series on-line available to meet your credit needs. Log on to acmec.org and link to on-line Grand Rounds. You will be presented with the ACMEC video library on our server, Rocky Mountain Learning. Click on ACMEC content and a listing of Grand Rounds will appear. Select the rounds you wish to hear and you'll receive a one hour Grand Rounds. If you wish credit simply follow the instructions.We have worked hard to make it simple and we hope this will be the solution for last minute credit needs.
Upcoming Meetings
Idaho Medical Association, July 24-26, 2010; Boise Centre, Boise, ID; Erin, 208-344-7888
Wednesday, 8:00 a.m. - Anderson Center
Wednesday, 12:15 p.m. - Winter Room
Friday, 8:00 a.m. - McCleary Auditorium
OTHER REGULARLY SCHEDULED CONFERENCES
St Luke's RMC
Tumor Board - Tuesday, 12:00 noon
Breast Tumor Board - Thursday, 7 a.m.
MSTI Pediatric Tumor Board - 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 12 noon
Meridian Tumor Board - 1st & 3rd Thursday, 12 noon
Anderson Center - Ada -2; CHEERS (Children's Hospital Education Enrichment Review) - 1stThursday, 8 am; MATCH 2nd Thursday, 8 am
Mercy Medical Center; Tumor Board - Tuesday, 12 noon
West Valley Medical Center; Tumor Board - Monday, 12:30 pm
Saint Alphonsus RMC; Tumor Board - Thursday, 12 noon, Breast Care Panel, Tuesday, 7:00 am
MEMBERSHIP:
UPCOMING EVENTS:
An elderly man in Kentucky had owned a large farm for several years. He had a large pond in the back. It was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe courts and some apple and peach trees.
One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, as he hadn't been there for awhile to look it over. He grabbed a five gallon bucket to bring in some fruit.
As he neared the pond he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny dipping in his pond.
He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end. One of the women shouted to him, "We're not coming out until you leave!" The old man frowned, "I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked." Holding the bucket up he said, "I'm here to feed the alligator."
Some old men can still think pretty darn fast.
July/August 2010
Dr. Mohr is busy listening to his corn grow at his farm in Nebraska so he asked to be covered for his article this month. Since he recently wrote on the importance of CME in your practice it seemed timely to remind you how much local CME is available.
In 2009 ACMEC produced over 1000 hours of Category I CME for the medical staff in Treasure Valley. This includes multi formats from Grand Rounds, tumor boards, journal clubs, department education efforts and seminars. Four Grand Rounds are produced weekly and broadcast to 6 remote locations. At St. Luke's Health System 15 accredited programs occur on a weekly basis from Fetal Care Conferences to Thoracic Tumor Boards. Saint Alphonsus RMC has 16 programs from Spine Journal Club to Trauma Rounds. Mercy Medical Center, St. Luke's Wood River and Elk's each maintain two. The VA Medical Center, McCall Memorial Hospital, West Valley Medical Center, St. Benedicts and Elmore Memorial Hospital each have one.
ACMEC also accredits programming with community partners such as Humphrey's Diabetes Center, the Lung Association and the Epilepsy League for another 100 hours.
Anyone working with the CME enterprise will tell you of its complexity over regulation and under funding but the fact is that accredited CME is abundant and inexpensive in Treasure Valley and we hope you'll take full advantage.
Anderson Center, St. Luke’s RMC, Wednesday 8:00 a.m.
Winter Room, Mercy Medical Center, Wednesday 12:15 p.m.
AW Horsley, VA Medical Center, Thursday 8:00 a.m.
McCleary Auditorium, Saint Alphonsus RMC, Friday 8:00 a.m.
We have no new members this month
ACMS High School Sports Physicals; Thursday June 10, 2010; Caven-Williams Indoor Football Complex, Boise State University
SUMMER SCHEDULE, NO CONFERENCES
2 Bad Infections You Can Get Outdoors in Idaho, Tom Rand, MD
9 Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives, Alison Madsen, MD
16 Studies from 2008/2009 that Will Change My Practice, C. Scott Smith, MD
23 Skin Cancer: Pearls for Primary Care and a Few Fascinomas, Jared Scott, MD
30 Asthma Update, William Palmer, MD
2 Bad Infections You Can Get Outdoors in Idaho, Tom Rand, MD
9 Foot and Ankle Injuries in Diabetes, Christopher Hirose, MD
16 Studies from 2008/2009 that Will Change My Practice, C. Scott Smith, MD
23 Skin Cancer: Pearls for Primary Care and a Few Fascinomas, Jared Scott, MD
30 Asthma Update, William Palmer, MD
3 TBA
10 TBA
17 TBA
24 TBA
4 Facial Pain, Phillip Berryhill, MD
11 Patient Education in Chronic Disease, Michelle Minikel, MD
18 Evaluating New Procedures and Technologies, Philippe Masser, MD
25 Studies from 2008/2009 that Will Change My Practice, C. Scott Smith, MD
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