The Multidisciplinary Perioperative MM&I Conference is offered quarterly on the 1st Friday of March, June, September, and December from 6:30am to 8:00am in Langford Auditorium at VUMC, and depending on circumstance, sometimes held virtually. The conference consists of presentations of cases in which outcomes were not expected and/or not desirable or presentations of relevant quality-related issues that impact providers in the perioperative spaces followed by discussion of strengths and weaknesse...

Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement conference for the Pediatric Burn patient population. Discussion will also be had regarding current patients in the hospital as well as complex patients that are being followed in the outpatient setting.

To evaluate the care of a trauma patient from a clinical and systems perspective and to perform interdisciplinary implementation of improvement strategies. It is responsible for establishing objective criteria for identifying issues for review and determining compliance with standard of care. Recommendations and/or action plans with associated re-evaluation (if applicable) will be made when areas needing improvement are determined. Provide the structure and organization to promote performance im...

Monthly MMI meeting that goes over recent pediatric transplant cases, with lessons learned, practice changes, and corrective action planning.

Case based discussion of system wide clinical practice opportunities involving perioperative and medical case scenarios. Cases are presented, interactive discussion with attendees on opportunities and challenges, review of key practice recommendations on case based topic presented.

This meeting is meant to serve as an internal review committee managing safety issues in the perioperative arena. These include review of patient harm events, veritas reports, medication errors, etc. In addition, our group is committed to supporting quality improvement projects throughout the perioperative space from attendings, nurse leaders/staff, residents and fellows to improve our care of children. The group is attended by representatives from surgery and anesthesia, both physicians and n...

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 presenta...

Vascular Anomalies Case Conference is offered twice monthly. Participants will engage in education on management of patients with vascular anomalies and improving patient outcomes. A variety of topics from researchers in several disciplines from across the VU and VUMC institutions will be covered.

Case presentations and discussion of patients with surgical indications seen in clinic. Goal is to determine best surgical plans, review exceptional surgical results as well as complications. Complex patients, diagnostic dilemmas, and interesting or unusual diagnosis will also be presented with follow up. Presentations and discussions will be between Attending Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic Spine Surgeons at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. There are plans for occasional lectures and invited...

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...