University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Office of Continuing Education Continuing 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
July 22 - July 24, 2020	2020 Office of Rural Health and Primary Care - Annual Rural Health Conference Details	The Office of Rural Health & Primary Care (ORHPC), located within the Arkansas Department of Health, Center for Health Protection will be hosting its Third Annual Rural Health Conference meeting Wednesday and Friday, July 22 and 24th, 2020. The purpose of the collaborative conference is to create a shared learning environment that supports innovations and discovery of successful rural health improvement and program implementation across collaborative programs. The meeting will engage Critical Access Hospitals, Rural Health Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, Community Partners, Consultants, Subject Matter Expert Speakers, and Health Department Employees. The (ORHPC) Annual CAH Hospital Conference will also provide a forum for technical assistance, sharing of best practices, mandates on rural health legislation and other financial and operational techniques. The sessions will include AR Telehealth, Antibiotic Stewardship, COVID-19 state and federal updates, Compliance, Physician Recruitment, Coding and Billing, and Grant Writing.
August 13, 2020	Arkansas Clinical Transformation (ACT) Program Learning Session 3 Register Details	Learning sessions are monthly or bimonthly sessions for primary care clinic teams that are sub-granted to participate in the Arkansas Department of Health’s ACT program. Sessions focus on facilitated learning for implementation of best practices and achieving systems change through application of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Chronic Care model, and NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home principles, clinical practice guidelines, performance measurement, EHR adaptation, and clinical risk and population management to effectively improve chronic disease patient outcomes.
August 14, 2020	3rd Annual Prostate Cancer Symposium Details	The goal of this event is to equip providers around the region with tools to provider personal care around a personal issue. The comprehensive symposium will detail the facets of prostate cancer, including available treatment methods, advancements in treatment, and how to keep patient satisfaction as the top priority.
August 20, 2020	3rd Annual Neuroscience Conference Register Details	The one-day virtual conference will provide health care professionals with the latest updates on advanced stroke care. This program will benefit Physicians, RNs, Residents, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, APRNs, EMTs and other medical clinicians involved with stroke treatment in the acute and post-acute care areas.
August 29, 2020	2020 UAMS College of Pharmacy Preceptor Development Conference Details	The event is a meeting/conference designed to help bring UAMS College of Pharmacy preceptors together so that they can stay up to date on College of Pharmacy changes. In addition, the event helps preceptors expand their skills as educators while participating in continuing education opportunities.
September 12, 2020	Pathology Update Register Details	The course will provide up to date information for pathologists covering various topics, including coagulopathy, Covid-testing, common problems in soft tissue pathology, problematic skin lesions requiring immediate attention (inpatient setting), oral dysplasia, challenging GI biopsies, Barrett's esophagus, and injury patterns encountered on biopsies of the GI tract, difficult endometrial biopsies, interesting findings in peripheral blood, the role of molecular testing in treatment of lung cancer and how to triage thyroid FNA for molecular testing. Pathology Update Brochure
September 14 - September 15, 2020	7th Annual Infant and Child Death Review Conference Details	7th Annual Infant and Child Death Review Program (ICDR) Conference
September 22, 2020	2020 UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation Stroke Program Conference Register Details	The Annual Conference is designed to provide the latest evidence based practice recommendations for treatment of acute ischemic stroke; how to utilize telemedicine in the treatment of stroke; and to educate the public on recognizing signs and symptoms of stroke.
October 1 - October 3, 2020	21st Annual Geriatrics and Long-Term Care Update Register Details	The 21st Annual Geriatrics and Long-Term Care Conference is an interprofessional educational activity designed to provide the latest updates on the most current evidence-based standards and research in geriatric medicine and long-term care management.
October 2 - October 4, 2020	Arkansas Society of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Conference Details	This conference is for Arkansas Otolaryngologists and other affliated healthcare providers
October 17, 2020	Inaugural Cardiology Update Register Details	This interprofessional program will provide didactic lectures and small group case-based discussions on the focused management of patients with heart disease.
April 16 - April 17, 2021	35th Annual Pediatric Infectious Disease Update Register Details	The 2020 Pediatric Infectious Disease Update, presented by the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, is a two-day seminar held annually for family physicians, general practitioners, pediatricians, internists, pharmacists, and nurses. The course provides in-depth discussion of infectious diseases and highlights new treatments for diseases seen frequently by practicing physicians. Big Cedar Lodge Reservation Information ID20 Brochure ID20 Vendor Application