Wiggins Ob / Gyn Update - Friday, November 2, 2012
Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel
2910 Yale Blvd SE
Albuquerque, NM
Presented by The Women's Center at Presbyterian and Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation
Program description
This program is designed for obstetricians and gynecologists, family practitioners, nurse midwives, and other providers of women's health care.
James W. Wiggins, MD (1918-2009) retired after four decades as an Albuquerque Obstetrician / Gynecologist. Dr. Wiggins served in many professional capacities including Clinical Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and Chief of the Department of Ob/Gyn at Presbyterian Hospital. He was a guiding force in the training of many of New Mexico's physicians.
The James W. Wiggins, MD Lectureship in Obstetrics and Gynecology has been offered annually since 1989, and is funded by the Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation, Wiggins Lectureship Endowment Fund, and corporate educational grants.
Learning Objectives
It is anticipated that by attending this program, healthcare providers will be better able to:
- Provide an overview of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine
- Explore the impact of prevention, wellness, life style, and complementary medicine on Women’s Health
- Review Evidence –Based therapies for selected women’s health conditions
- Identify those women who are at increased familial risk for women's cancers.
- Describe the standard of care practices for genetic counseling and testing of at-risk patients.
- Discuss cancer prevention measures with at-risk patients.
- Discuss the benefits and limitations of non-invasive prenatal testing.
- Examine when and how non-invasive testing is currently being used in clinical practice;
- Describe results interpretation and both pre- and post-test counseling for non-invasive prenatal testing.
- List the elements of the three clinical bundles for Pitocin Augmentation, Pitocin Induction, and Vacuum Extraction deliveries.
- Identify areas within their own practice, or practices they supervise, which deviate from the clinical bundles without a medical indication for the deviation.
- Explain the severity of harm which can potentially occur from deviation from the clinical bundles, as illustrated by current birth injury verdicts and settlements.
- Describe how health information technologies and telemedicine can be integrated into medical practice.
- Explain the types of information and communication technologies and services that are being used in healthcare.
- Describe the emerging new technologies and applications as they may apply to healthcare.
- Discuss how telemedicine can be used in international environments.
- Recognize the difference between sex (the biologic) and gender (the social determinants of health)
- Analyze cases using a sex/gender lens
- Describe an approach to sex- and gender-specific medicine that will lead to more effective prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment and health policies, programs and services.
- Differentiate between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes by pathophysiology
- Distinguish between pre-gestational and gestational diabetes
- Discuss management of Type 1, Type 2 and gestational
- Delineate goals for control
- Describe mechanism of action of oral medications
- Identify insulins by time / action and use
*NEXPLANON training [FREE] immediately following the conference Friday evening. Contact Staci Zweschper at 505-331-2476 or staci.zweschper@merck.com for details.
