The University of California, San Diego Continuing Medical Education (UCSD CME) is dedicated to provide needs based education for physicians and health care providers to improve knowledge, competence and performance and enable the optimum provision of health care.
Our commitment is to continuously improve of our educational mission by researching current adult education and CME literature, participation in national organizations committed to improving CME, and implementation of innovative and creative programming that may further our mission.
University of California, San Diego--School of Medicine
September 24-26, 2008
This year's developmental disabilities conference will include five sets of workshops focusing on autism, genetics, early intervention, risk management, and special populations, as well as keynote presentations and a poster session / reception. Twenty-five different workshops will be offered, concentrating on topics such as assistive technology, effective and ineffective treatments, expanded screening in genetics, co-occurring medical conditions common to certain syndromes, and nutrition. The interactive reception and poster session provides attendees with the opportunity to speak directly with project partners.
Location: Catamaram Resort Hotel
San Diego, CA
Course Directors/Instructors:
TBA
Cost:
Before 8/21 After 8/22
Physicians $275 $325
Allied Health $225 $275
Number of credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 credit™
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Detailed Description:
This year's developmental disabilities conference will include five sets of workshops focusing on autism, genetics, early intervention, risk management, and special populations, as well as keynote presentations and a poster session / reception. Twenty-five different workshops will be offered, concentrating on topics such as assistive technology, effective and ineffective treatments, expanded screening in genetics, co-occurring medical conditions common to certain syndromes, and nutrition. The interactive reception and poster session provides attendees with the opportunity to speak directly with project partners.
Featuring In-Depth Sessions Focusing On:
- Autism Spectrum Disorders: Differential Diagnoses; Intervention; Recent Research; Co-occuring medical conditions
- Early Intervention: Screening and early identification; Cultural differences in parenting; Feeding challenges; Assistive technology
- Genetics: Pioneering tests for autism/MR & the “new autism gene”; The expanded genetic screening program
- Risk Management/Assessment in Community Settings: Using data to manage risk; Using multidisciplinary teams to reduce hospitalization rates; Best practices in mortality reviews
- Challenges with Special Populations: Cerebral Palsy – what works & what doesn’t; Differential diagnoses with environmental toxins; Fragile X Syndrome update; FASD; Managing epilepsy; Assisting persons with DD in the grieving process
