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The 3rd Annual Chair Summit, The Master Class for Neuroscience Professional Development: Introduction to Meeting Highlights
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The 3rd Annual Chair Summit, The Master Class for Neuroscience Professional Development: Introduction to Meeting Highlights Christina J. Ansted, MPH, CCMEP, Sandra Haas Binford, MAEd, Monique D. Johnson, MD, CCMEP, Robert S. Kennedy, MA CME OUTFITTERS, LLC, ROCKVILLE, MD The continuing professional development of clinicians protects one of our nation’s most precious human resourcesda well-trained force of health care workers. Making decisions to manage illness and handle varied clinical situations defines a continual part of medical practice. Therefore, to facilitate translating the latest research into improvements in caring for patients with mental or neurological illness, this article series presents findings of The 3rd Annual Chair Summit, The Master Class for Neuroscience Professional Development (“Chair Summit”) in Chicago, Illinois, held in August 2010. The Chair Summit’s educational goals were to collaboratively evaluate evidence and share ideas and clinical practice challenges with Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and with peers, and develop individualized clinical strategies that will result in improved patient outcomes. These “faculty chairs” acted as expert peer teachers for a learner audience of frontline clinician participants. Specifically, the course’s learning objectives as addressed to participants were to:
3RD ANNUAL CHAIR SUMMIT FIVE-ARTICLE SERIES OF MEETING HIGHLIGHTS - Continuing Professional Development in Psychiatry and Neurology: The 3rd Annual Chair Summit - Mood Disorders - Psychosis and Schizophrenia - Psychiatric Clinical Challenges and Advancing the Science of Treatment - Psychiatric Treatment Perspectives in Neurology
Analyze the latest research and clinical data regarding various psychiatric and neurological disorders. Evaluate the application of evidence-based data guidelines in your clinical practice. Translate evidence into improved clinical performance to improve outcomes of patients.
See funding, conflict of interest, and authorship disclosures at the end of this article. Ó 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved Health Outcomes Research in Medicine (2011) 2, e131-e132
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Overview
Various educational formats allowed clinicians to customize their learning according to both personal learning styles and individual needs to improve clinical skills and performance. These formats included plenary sessions, small breakout presentations, small-group chart reviews, and clinical case challenges with digital audience response to facilitate participant interaction. Furthermore, reader consideration of the case challenges and chart review sessions covered in this series supports the Practice Performance Assessment (Part 4) of American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology-certified physicians’ Maintenance of Certification requirements. All sessions focused on bridging the gap between evidence and daily clinical practice. The Chair Summit meeting highlights are documented in 5 articles, accessible here: Continuing Professional Development, regarding the role of the Chair Summit master class in continuing professional development. Mood Disorders, reviewing plenary and small-group educational sessions that considered mood disorders, including bipolar spectrum. Psychosis and Schizophrenia, analyzing plenary and breakout educational sessions, as well as one clinical case challenge, on psychosis and schizophrenia genetic research, clinical research, and patient care. Psychiatric Clinical Challenges and Advancing the Science of Treatment, examining multifaceted case challenges, diagnosis and management of various psychiatric disorders, and technologies that assist in treating or evaluating treatment response in anxiety and depression. Specific topics were obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, borderline personality disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, suicidality, and physician addiction. Psychiatric Treatment Perspectives in Neurology, summarizing psychiatric perspectives on neurological illnesses and injuries: multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, sleep-wake disorders including obstructive sleep apnea, Alzheimer’s disease management, and psychiatric care of older persons, including one casebased chart review session. These articles will document the best practices and clinical challenges of modern care in psychiatry and neurology, expert faculty advice on diagnosis and treatment options, and discussion of related healthsystem issues.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the Chair Summit faculty, who presented the educational content and moderated the sessions on which these meeting highlights are based. Faculty members are individually acknowledged, with each session presented in the articles accessible via hyperlink above. Corresponding Author: Sandra Haas Binford, MAEd, Medical Resources Group, CME Outfitters, LLC, 1395 Piccard Drive, Suite 370, Rockville, MD 20850. E-mail address: sbinford@cmeoutfitters.com All authors work in salaried positions for CME Outfitters, LLC, Rockville, MD. Authors received no special or additional compensation for contributions to this article. CME Outfitters, LLC, received no compensation from any third party for the production of this article.
The 3rd Annual Chair Summit, The Master Class for Neuroscience Professional Development: Introduction to Meeting Highlights Christina J. Ansted, MPH, CCMEP, Sandra Haas Binford, MAEd, Monique D. Johnson, MD, CCMEP, Robert S. Kennedy, MA CME OUTFITTERS, LLC, ROCKVILLE, MD The continuing professional development of clinicians protects one of our nation’s most precious human resourcesda well-trained force of health care workers. Making decisions to manage illness and handle varied clinical situations defines a continual part of medical practice. Therefore, to facilitate translating the latest research into improvements in caring for patients with mental or neurological illness, this article series presents findings of The 3rd Annual Chair Summit, The Master Class for Neuroscience Professional Development (“Chair Summit”) in Chicago, Illinois, held in August 2010. The Chair Summit’s educational goals were to collaboratively evaluate evidence and share ideas and clinical practice challenges with Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology and with peers, and develop individualized clinical strategies that will result in improved patient outcomes. These “faculty chairs” acted as expert peer teachers for a learner audience of frontline clinician participants. Specifically, the course’s learning objectives as addressed to participants were to:
3RD ANNUAL CHAIR SUMMIT FIVE-ARTICLE SERIES OF MEETING HIGHLIGHTS - Continuing Professional Development in Psychiatry and Neurology: The 3rd Annual Chair Summit - Mood Disorders - Psychosis and Schizophrenia - Psychiatric Clinical Challenges and Advancing the Science of Treatment - Psychiatric Treatment Perspectives in Neurology
Analyze the latest research and clinical data regarding various psychiatric and neurological disorders. Evaluate the application of evidence-based data guidelines in your clinical practice. Translate evidence into improved clinical performance to improve outcomes of patients.
See funding, conflict of interest, and authorship disclosures at the end of this article. Ó 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved Health Outcomes Research in Medicine (2011) 2, e131-e132
e132
Overview
Various educational formats allowed clinicians to customize their learning according to both personal learning styles and individual needs to improve clinical skills and performance. These formats included plenary sessions, small breakout presentations, small-group chart reviews, and clinical case challenges with digital audience response to facilitate participant interaction. Furthermore, reader consideration of the case challenges and chart review sessions covered in this series supports the Practice Performance Assessment (Part 4) of American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology-certified physicians’ Maintenance of Certification requirements. All sessions focused on bridging the gap between evidence and daily clinical practice. The Chair Summit meeting highlights are documented in 5 articles, accessible here: Continuing Professional Development, regarding the role of the Chair Summit master class in continuing professional development. Mood Disorders, reviewing plenary and small-group educational sessions that considered mood disorders, including bipolar spectrum. Psychosis and Schizophrenia, analyzing plenary and breakout educational sessions, as well as one clinical case challenge, on psychosis and schizophrenia genetic research, clinical research, and patient care. Psychiatric Clinical Challenges and Advancing the Science of Treatment, examining multifaceted case challenges, diagnosis and management of various psychiatric disorders, and technologies that assist in treating or evaluating treatment response in anxiety and depression. Specific topics were obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, borderline personality disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, suicidality, and physician addiction. Psychiatric Treatment Perspectives in Neurology, summarizing psychiatric perspectives on neurological illnesses and injuries: multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, sleep-wake disorders including obstructive sleep apnea, Alzheimer’s disease management, and psychiatric care of older persons, including one casebased chart review session. These articles will document the best practices and clinical challenges of modern care in psychiatry and neurology, expert faculty advice on diagnosis and treatment options, and discussion of related healthsystem issues.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the Chair Summit faculty, who presented the educational content and moderated the sessions on which these meeting highlights are based. Faculty members are individually acknowledged, with each session presented in the articles accessible via hyperlink above. Corresponding Author: Sandra Haas Binford, MAEd, Medical Resources Group, CME Outfitters, LLC, 1395 Piccard Drive, Suite 370, Rockville, MD 20850. E-mail address: sbinford@cmeoutfitters.com All authors work in salaried positions for CME Outfitters, LLC, Rockville, MD. Authors received no special or additional compensation for contributions to this article. CME Outfitters, LLC, received no compensation from any third party for the production of this article.