University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Office of Continuing Education Continuing Medical Education

The UAMS Office of Continuing Education (OCE) ensures that all its CE activities meet the ANCC, ACPE, and ACCME’s Essential Criteria and the Standards for Commercial Support.

The OCE works with non-accredited health-related organizations, medical associations or societies, to jointly provide accredited activities. We also provide different levels of planning services from instructional design and curriculum development, to a range of meeting planning and management options.

The healthcare team relies on accredited continuing education to help them improve their practice and deliver high-quality, safe, effective patient care. Accredited educational activities address a full range of topics important to health care—from the latest breakthroughs in medical research to providing patient-centered care.

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Date	Event	Description
August 7 - August 29, 2019	Basic Critical Care Details	8 day course providing the core curriculum of AACN.
August 22, 2019	2nd Annual Neuroscience Conference Details	This one-day conference will provide health care professionals with the latest updates on advanced stroke care. This program will have a focus on the most up to date practices and challenges that are common for stroke treatment.
August 22, 2019	Antibiotic Stewardship Details	Training on Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship program in Skilled Nursing facilities
August 23, 2019	2nd Annual Arkansas Prostate Cancer Symposium Details	The goal of this program is to educate urologists and other health care professionals involved with the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer on best practices based upon AUA and NCCN guidelines to optimize patient outcomes. The program will discuss PSA baselines for diagnosis, roles of genetic testing in prostate cancer, localized and biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer, how advanced imaging can improve accuracy of detection, and how to optimize the sequencing of advanced medications for patients with advancing disease. This program will also have panel discussions to allow participants to pose questions to expert clinicians in the field of prostate cancer.
August 23 - August 24, 2019	Heart Summit 2019 Details	Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in American, with Arkansas ranking in the top ten states. Methods used to identify, diagnose and treat this populations are rapidly advancing. It is the purpose of this conference to communicate such advances. This conference seeks to provide tools, information and resources to educate and enhance the care and effective management of the cardiovascular patient.
August 27, 2019	Understanding Opioids and Non-Opioid Pain Management Alternatives Details	This program will cover issues surrounding the opioid epidemic, how pain works, identifying opioid medications, non-opioid pain management alternatives, chronic pain journeling options and .
September 5, 2019	UAMS Pain Fellowship Journal Club Details	This activity is a part of a monthly series to review and discuss relevant scholarly articles in pain medicine. Flyer
September 5, 2019	Starting the Conversation... JRMC Palliative Care Course Details	This educational program will highlight best practices when conducting goals of care conversations with patients and families. Our providers will have the opportunity to learn from a board-certified palliative care physician how to identify patients who may benefit from code status conversations, differentiate between code status and other life-sustaining treatments, and describe methods to conduct these conversations. The goal of this program is to empower our physicians to start having these conversations in such a manner that will increase patient satisfaction and the quality of care that we provide.
September 5, 2019	IBD Surgery in the Era of Biologics Details	A quarterly meeting of UAMS GI Staff, UAMS Surgeons and the community physicians partners to receive instructions in evidence based, leading edge gastrointestinal care. Flyer
September 7, 2019	Pathology Update Register Details	An update in pathology based on case presentation.
September 11 - September 12, 2019	Little Rock Critical Care Program Neuroscience Module Details	Neuroscience Module is a 2 days course that is based on the core curriculum of AACN and focuses on nursing care for the critically ill neurological patient
September 17, 2019	2019 Annual Sickle Cell Symposium Details	Sickle Cell: Past, Present and Future
September 19 - September 21, 2019	20th Annual Geriatrics and Long-Term Care Conference Register Details	This is the 20th anniversary of this interprofessional conference for health care providers working with the geriatric population. It is designed to provide the latest updates on the most current evidence-based standards and research in geriatric medicine and long-term care management.
September 20, 2019	12 Lead ECG Interpretation Details	This 8 hour course and workshop is offered every 2 months and is open to LRCCP attendees which includes UAMS staff
September 20 - September 21, 2019	Arkansas Urologic Society Annual Meeting Details	This is the annual meeting of the Arkansas Urologic Society to provide new and update knowledge to better provide care for their patients. Lectures will be offered by speakers on various topics.
September 25 - September 26, 2019	2019 UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation Stroke Program Conference Details	IDHI Stroke Program annual conference
September 26 - September 28, 2019	51st Southeastern Pediatric Cardiology Society Meeting Details	The Southeastern Pediatric Cardiology Society meeting is an annual conference of providers caring for children with congenital and acquired heart disease who share the common goal of improving the care they deliver by hearing the latest advances in the field from experts; discussing common problems and controversies in the field; and sharing ideas for solutions and practice improvement.
September 27, 2019	Urological Issues in Older Adults & Physical Therapy Pelvic Floor Interventions Details	This workshop will educate attendees on urological issues in older adults, pelvic floor physical therapy, when to refer to PT, commonly treated diagnoses in PFPT and compliancy with PFPT.
October 1, 2019	Health Literacy and its Implications for Effective Patient Care Details	Introduction to Health Literacy and Its Implications for Effective Health Care
October 2 - October 24, 2019	Basic Critical Care Details	8 day course providing the core curriculum of AACN.
October 12, 2019	UAMS Neurosciences Update Details	Educational conference designed to provide updates in neurosciences care for family practitioners, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and other specialties.
October 14 - October 16, 2019	2019 Hospice & Palliative Care Conference Details	Continuing education for those providing care to the seriously ill. Sessions include symptom management, advance care planning, communication, medical marijuana, ethics/decision making, palliative care in LTC, drug disposal/diversion, and much more!
November 8, 2019	Arkansas Summit for Antimicrobial Stewardship Details	Antibiotic resistance continues to be a serious and growing public health threat in the state of Arkansas. This issue is compounded by the inappropriate use of antimicrobials. This summit aims to give providers tools to combat the rise of resistance.