Breast Fellows Conference - ABIM, ABP & ABS MOC Eligible 2025 - 7/23/2025

Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Virtual

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (1.00 hours), ABP MOC Part 2 (1.00 hours), ABS CC (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (1.00 hours)

The aim of the Breast Fellow Conference is to educate and update the knowledge of all practitioners involved in breast care. The target audience includes attendings, fellows, residents, advanced practice providers and nurses involved in the care of patients with breast diseases. This is a didactic course which is held every Wednesday evening from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm throughout the academic year. Didactic modalities include – lectures on up-to-date treatments of breast disease, case-based presentations with patient care discussion, and journal club discussions. The topics discussed include: surgical management of breast cancer and benign breast diseases, benign and malignant breast pathology, radiologic evaluation and management of breast pathology, medical oncology treatment of breast cancer, radiation oncology treatment of breast cancer, management of breast treatment complications including lymphedema care and physical medicine and rehabilitation, breast cancer survivorship, the latest articles in breast disease management, updates from national medical oncology, radiation oncology and surgical oncology meetings on breast disease management.

Objective(s): 1 Educate all participants in the best practice of breast related diseases to diminish knowledge gaps given the rapid advancement of the field of breast disease care. 2 Discuss updates in breast cancer imaging for earlier detection. 3 Identify therapeutic advances in early and advanced hormone receptor-positive, HER2neu overexpressing, and triple-negative breast cancer. 4 Identify risk factors and endocrine interventions in patients’ high risk for developing breast cancer. 5 Review advances in radiation therapy and outcomes.
Location: Virtual
Specialties: Pediatrics, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Radiation Oncology, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Section of Surgical Sciences, Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Social Work

Faculty Disclosures:
Raeshell S Sweeting, MD (Nothing to disclose - 06/17/2025)

1. Educate all participants in the best practice of breast related diseases to diminish knowledge gaps given the rapid advancement of the field of breast disease care.
2. Discuss updates in breast cancer imaging for earlier detection.
3. Identify therapeutic advances in early and advanced hormone receptor-positive, HER2neu overexpressing, and triple-negative breast cancer.
4. Identify risk factors and endocrine interventions in patients’ high risk for developing breast cancer.
5. Review advances in radiation therapy and outcomes.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.00 Medical Knowledge (Part II) 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.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 1.00 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.

Successful completion of this CME activity 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.

PLEASE NOTE: This regularly scheduled series does not award MOC II or Continuous Certification credit for the month of December. MOC or Continuous Certification credit can only be reported within the same year the credit was earned.