Grand Rounds - June 19, 2020
"Antibiotic Update"

Speaker: Steven T. Park, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine

Objectives:

1. Understand the extent and harm of inappropriate antibiotic use.
2. Describe the components of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs
3. Understand the methods that Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs utilize to encourage appropriate use of antibiotics

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Oregon Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The period to claim credit for this activity expires one year after its original publication. 

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

Oher CME or Clerkship questions: also contact Continuing Medical Education at [email protected].

Grand Rounds - June 12, 2020
"Hospital Acquired Infections and COVID-19"

Speaker: Thomas C. Cesario, MD

Objectives:

1. List at least three preventable healthcare acquired conditions
2. Categorize healthcare acquired infections vs. community-acquired ones
3. Identify symptoms for CAUTI, CLABSI, C-Diff
4. Implement strategies to prevent healthcare acquired infections
5. Take cultural-linguistic factors into account when pre-screening patients for infections before surgery and when discussing infection risks and prevention strategies

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Oregon Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-4680, [email protected]. For CME or Clerkship questions, contact Sheila Jordan, MMGT, CHCP, Manager of Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-6780, [email protected].

Grand Rounds - June 5, 2020
"Antiviral Treatment Update"

Speaker: Rajendra Kapila, MD

Objectives:

1. Describe the indication for the use of antiviral medications
2. Evaluate the use of antiviral medications for the treatment of HIV
3. Evaluate the use of antiviral medications for herpes, hepatitis and influenza
4. Understand the current investigation into the use of antiviral medications for COVID-19

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Oregon Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-4680, [email protected]. For CME or Clerkship questions, contact Sheila Jordan, MMGT, CHCP, Manager of Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-6780, [email protected].

Grand Rounds - May 29, 2020
“Medical Conspiracy Theories and Covid-19"

Speaker: Joseph Pierre, MD

Objectives:

1. Identify how common it is to believe at least one medically-related conspiracy theory.
2. Describe at least one conspiracy theory related to COVID-19.
3. Describe how mistrust and misinformation can lead to belief in medical conspiracy theories.
4. List one strategy to decrease belief in medical conspiracy theories.
5. Define the role that cultural diversities (gender, age, race, religion, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, socio-economics, etc.) may play in medical conspiracy theories

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Oregon Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-4680, [email protected]. For CME or Clerkship questions, contact Sheila Jordan, MMGT, CHCP, Manager of Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-6780, [email protected].

Grand Rounds - May 15, 2020
"Engaging patients who inject drugs"

Speaker: Jessica LeBlanc, MD, MPH, Mosaic Medical and Bend Treatment Center

Objectives:

1. Discuss the role of stigma in building rapport with patients who inject drugs

2. Describe how a harm-reduction approach applies to patients who inject drugs

3. Illustrate a harm-reduction-informed model of motivational interviewing with patients who inject drugs

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Oregon Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-4680, [email protected]. For CME or Clerkship questions, contact Sheila Jordan, MMGT, CHCP, Manager of Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-6780, [email protected].

Grand Rounds - May 8, 2020
"Further Updates on COVID-19: What We Know and What We Don’t"

Speaker: Shira Shafir, PhD, MPH - UCLA

Objectives:

1. Understand what is currently known and unknown from the rapidly evolving literature on SARS-CoV-19
2. Explain updated understanding on the pathophysiology of the virus and how it affects multiple body systems
3. Describe updates on drug and vaccine testing
4. Understand the current controversy on ventilatory support
5. Explain different testing modalities and how they might be used

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Oregon Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-4680, [email protected]. For CME or Clerkship questions, contact Sheila Jordan, MMGT, CHCP, Manager of Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-6780, [email protected].

Grand Rounds - April 24, 2020
"Boots on the Ground: How Frontline Providers Can Navigate Stress in the Time of COVID-19"

Speaker: Mary Meador, MD

Objectives:

1. Applying a brain-based understanding of what it means to be human when we feel stressed, anxious, or afraid.
2. Understanding the brain as a social organ.
3. Evaluating the paradigm of vulnerability as a weakness
4. Learn to embrace the strength that comes out of seeing ourselves and each other as somewhat flawed human beings, trying to do the best that we can in a very difficult situation.
5. Examine the differences in the neurobiology of empathy and compassion, and show that we can develop both with practice.

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Oregon Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-4680, [email protected]. For CME or Clerkship questions, contact Sheila Jordan, MMGT, CHCP, Manager of Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-6780, [email protected].

Grand Rounds - April 17, 2020
"Fine tuning diagnostic conceptualization skills: The Autism Spectrum Disorder"

Speaker: Kira Armstrong, PhD

Objectives:

1. Describe at least 3 characteristics in a child’s psychosocial family history and/or parents that can make it more challenging to recognize high functioning ASD
2. Identify at least 4 child characteristics and/or comorbidities that can “mask” ASD
3. Summarize at least 3 ways to change how one approaches diagnostic interviews and the assessment process to increase the likelihood of recognizing and “finding” high functioning children who have ASD.

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Oregon Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-4680, [email protected]. For CME or Clerkship questions, contact Sheila Jordan, MMGT, CHCP, Manager of Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-6780, [email protected].

Grand Rounds - April 10, 2020
"Intimate Partner Violence"

Speaker: Carolyn Sachs, MD

Objectives:

1. Cite the epidemiology of intimate partner violence
2. Identify those populations at risk for intimate partner violence while navigating cultural views and/or barriers
3. Recognize the signs and symptoms of intimate partner violence
4. Apply the appropriate strategies and interventions in the treatment of intimate partner violence
5. Address the patient appropriately when the suspected perpetrator is present

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Oregon Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-4680, [email protected]. For CME or Clerkship questions, contact Sheila Jordan, MMGT, CHCP, Manager of Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-6780, [email protected].

Grand Rounds - April 3, 2020
"Updates on the Evolving Novel Coronavirus Outbreak"

Speaker: Shira Shafir, PhD, MPH - UCLA

Objectives:

1. Describe the current state of the COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak
2. Describe current best practices concerning personal protective equipment (PPE)
3. Understand the importance of social distancing measures and what they mean for health care professionals in practice
4. Understand the implications of a PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern)and a locally declared Public Health Emergency
5. Understand where to find additional information and resources as this outbreak continues to evolve

Accreditation: St. Charles Health System is accredited by the Oregon Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Health System designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals

Accessibility/Program Questions: St. Charles Health System encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-4680, [email protected]. For CME or Clerkship questions, contact Sheila Jordan, MMGT, CHCP, Manager of Continuing Medical Education at 541-706-6780, [email protected].