Events for the Month of October

Breast and Prostate Cancer for Older Adults  

Starts: 10/1/2008
Ends: 10/1/2008

Breast and Prostate Cancer in Older Adults VTC
October 1, 11:00 AM –1:00 PM
ED West, 115A/B, UAMS

This free video teleconference (VTC) requires no participant pre-registration. Attendees to this VTC will receive 2 contact hours of CE credits.

Objectives:

At the completion of this 2-hour video teleconference, the attendees will be able to:

1. List risk factors and prevention strategies for breast cancer

2. Summarize breast cancer treatment options.

3. Explain pros and cons of prostate cancer screening in older men.

4. Describe available treatment options for prostate cancer.

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Geriatric Grand Rounds  

Starts: 10/1/2008
Ends: 10/1/2008

Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
Geriatric Grand Rounds  

Topic: Hypertension - Title TBN
   
Speaker: Mony Fraer , MD

Purpose : The overall purpose of this series is to encourage and promote continuing medical education within the field of Geriatrics by increasing medical knowledge of geriatric-related issues through up-to-date instructional techniques in an effort to improve physician performance within the clinical and / or basic science setting. 

Time : 8:00 – 8:50 AM

Location : Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Jo Ellen Ford Auditorium (G/204)

Accreditation : The University of Arkansas College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medicine Education (ACGME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. 

The University of Arkansas College of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credits toward the AMA’s Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he / she actually spent in the activity.

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Fall Prevention Strategies in Older Adults  

Starts: 10/8/2008
Ends: 10/8/2008

Fall Prevention Strategies in Older Adults
held in conjunction with the
South Central Center on Aging

Southeast Arkansas College
 McGeorge Hall Seminar Room 
 1900 Hazel Drive
Pine Bluff, Arkansas

For additional information and to pre-register, please contact 870-879-1440 or 1-866-893-2795 (toll-free).

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Geriatric Grand Rounds  

Starts: 10/8/2008
Ends: 10/8/2008

Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
Geriatric Grand Rounds  

Topic: TBA (HCGNE)
   
Speaker: Neville Strumpf, PhD

Purpose : The overall purpose of this series is to encourage and promote continuing medical education within the field of Geriatrics by increasing medical knowledge of geriatric-related issues through up-to-date instructional techniques in an effort to improve physician performance within the clinical and / or basic science setting. 

Time : 8:00 – 8:50 AM

Location : Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Jo Ellen Ford Auditorium (G/204)

Accreditation : The University of Arkansas College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medicine Education (ACGME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. 

The University of Arkansas College of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credits toward the AMA’s Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he / she actually spent in the activity.

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Geriatric Grand Rounds  

Starts: 10/15/2008
Ends: 10/15/2008

Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
Geriatric Grand Rounds  

Topic: TBA
   
Speaker: Thomas Monson, MD

Purpose : The overall purpose of this series is to encourage and promote continuing medical education within the field of Geriatrics by increasing medical knowledge of geriatric-related issues through up-to-date instructional techniques in an effort to improve physician performance within the clinical and / or basic science setting. 

Time : 8:00 – 8:50 AM

Location : Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Jo Ellen Ford Auditorium (G/204)

Accreditation : The University of Arkansas College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medicine Education (ACGME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. 

The University of Arkansas College of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credits toward the AMA’s Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he / she actually spent in the activity.

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Geriatric Grand Rounds  

Starts: 10/22/2008
Ends: 10/22/2008

Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
Geriatric Grand Rounds  

Topic: Communication Deficits Secondary to Right Hemisphere Stroke
   
Speaker: Richard Zraick, PhD

Purpose : The overall purpose of this series is to encourage and promote continuing medical education within the field of Geriatrics by increasing medical knowledge of geriatric-related issues through up-to-date instructional techniques in an effort to improve physician performance within the clinical and / or basic science setting. 

Time : 8:00 – 8:50 AM

Location : Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Jo Ellen Ford Auditorium (G/204)

Accreditation : The University of Arkansas College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medicine Education (ACGME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. 

The University of Arkansas College of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credits toward the AMA’s Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he / she actually spent in the activity.

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Geriatric Grand Rounds  

Starts: 10/29/2008
Ends: 10/29/2008

Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
Geriatric Grand Rounds  

Topic: Movement Disorder Emergencies in Elderly Patients
   
Speaker: Marina Ionita, MD

Purpose : The overall purpose of this series is to encourage and promote continuing medical education within the field of Geriatrics by increasing medical knowledge of geriatric-related issues through up-to-date instructional techniques in an effort to improve physician performance within the clinical and / or basic science setting. 

Time : 8:00 – 8:50 AM

Location : Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Jo Ellen Ford Auditorium (G/204)

Accreditation : The University of Arkansas College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medicine Education (ACGME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. 

The University of Arkansas College of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credits toward the AMA’s Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he / she actually spent in the activity.

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Fall Prevention Strategies in Older Adults  

Starts: 10/30/2008
Ends: 10/30/2008

Fall Prevention Strategies in Older Adults
held in conjunction with the 
West Central Center on Aging

Schmieding Center for Senior Health

Education Auditorium 
 2422 West Thompson Drive
Springdale, Arkansas

For additional information and to pre-register, please contact 479-751-3043 or hhartz@scshe.uams.edu

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