State of the Science Workshop:
Care of the Combat Amputee
Friday, April 16, 2010
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
Joel Auditorium, 7:00am-5:30pm
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State of the Science Workshop: Care of the Combat Amputee
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Friday, April 16, 2010 Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC Joel Auditorium, 7:00am-5:30pm |
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SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION, DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES, ORTHOPEDICS AND REHABILITATION AT WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, THE HUMAN ENGINEERING RESEARCH LABORATORIES (A VA RR&D CENTER OF EXCELLENCE), AND THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND REHAB SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OR REHABILITATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.
This FREE workshop is open to military and VA personnel as well as patients and their families. Medical and rehab personnel may obtain Continuing Medical Education (CME) or Continuing Education Units (CEU) credits by attending this workshop. Please make sure to choose the CME or CEU option on the registration form!
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 5.5 MA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.
Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other healthcare professionals are awarded .5 continuing education units (CEU's) which are equal to .5.5 contact hours.
We are holding this symposium to commemorate the release of the textbook Care of the Combat Amputee, published by the Borden Institute as part of the Textbooks for Military Medicine. This textbook is the formal publication of our work from a consensus conference of the same name, held on September 17-19, 2007 at the Center for the Intrepid in St. Antonio, TX, where rehabilitation experts from the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the civilian community united to define the state of care for rehabilitation of the combat amputee.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ATTENDEES WILL NO LONGER BE GRANTED CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS THROUGH VIDEOCONFERENCING. ATTENDANCE MUST BE IN PERSON TO OBTAIN CREDITS.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Monday, April 5, 2010 5:00pm EST