The activities in the CPF series cover a variety of topics that are relevant to helping pediatric primary care providers, family medicine providers, and pediatric hospital specialty providers in daily practice to improve their patient and family care. Past topics presented included Antibiotic/Antimicrobial Resistance, Otitis Media, Preventing Type I Diabetes, Scope of Pediatric Plastic Surgery, Dysfunctional Urination, Testicular Torsion, Headache Management, and others. Future topics include Em...

The Breast Tumor Board is offered virtually every Wednesday from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. Each session provides opportunities for faculty, fellows, residents , as well as students, nurses and other clinical staff to examine recent cases and discuss application of new knowledge and/or discuss opportunities for improvement. After participating in this CME activity, participants should be able to describe and discuss AJCC staging criteria for breast carcinoma, gain expertise in application and interpretati...

Physician advisors and coding specialists from across VUMC meet to discuss the latest internal audit of VUMC coding/billing data, discuss how documentation and coding impact the effectiveness of DRG assignment, review resources pertaining to ICD-10 billing codes, and provide education on the changing environment as well as mandates at the state and national levels. The CDACE group is committed to delivering the highest-quality education and information on this vital topic.

The GI Clinical Management Conference is offered every weekly. Conference participants will examine and discuss recent cases with the goal of improving evaluation, diagnosis, and management as well as discussing the incorporation of recent advances into practice.

Case consensus conference between the PMI and dermatology departments to review cutaneous specimens.

Allergic Disease Conference is offered weekly. Participants will engage in education on current issues on evaluation and management of allergic and immunologic diseases and discuss implications for clinical practice and the impact on patient outcome. A variety of topics from researchers in several disciplines from across the VU and VUMC institutions will be covered.

The faculty, residents and fellows on the breast surgical pathology service meet 2X/week at a multiheaded microscope for 1 hour per session to reach a consensus diagnosis for challenging cases and share recent cases with salient teaching points such as rare entities, borderline lesions, difficult diagnoses and nuances of reporting. Attendees can participate by zoom as well as in person. This conference is a high yield learning activity for all participants.

Pre-recorded PowerPoint-based education hosted by live specialists for questions/conversation. Each session will be provided at multiple times over the course of 1-2 weeks so all providers can attend at their convenience. This is a case-based conference that has clinically-based questions during the presentation and actively solicits participation from the audience for questions, discussions, comments.

This will be a twice weekly meeting for the adult and pediatric Bone, soft tissue and skin (BSTS) pathology services. The following types of cases will be discussed: diagnosis pending and requiring consensus input; potential disagreements; and invaluable teaching points.

Burn centers across the country have this meeting to run through each patient on the unit, run them by all members of the team to keep their care consistent, organized and to ensure we are all aware of our patients, how they are doing and what their plans are. This meeting is vital to help coordinate and improve our patients care which is our most important reason for having it.