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In support of improving patient care, University of Minnesota, Interprofessional Continuing Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statements 

American Medical Association (AMA) 

The University of Minnesota, Interprofessional Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Athletic Trainers

BOCUniversity of Minnesota - CME (BOC AP# P651) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers. This program is eligible for a maximum of 8.25 EBP Category hours/CEUs. ATs should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program.

Physical Therapists

This course qualifies for 8.25 Category 1 credits under Minnesota rule MN Rule 5601.2400, Subpart 1, A.

Other Healthcare Professionals 

Other healthcare professionals who participate in this CE activity may submit their statement of participation to their appropriate accrediting organizations or state boards for consideration of credit.  The participant is responsible for determining whether this activity meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education.

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• Nurses

This dynamic and interactive sports related trauma symposium will feature the gamut of clinical challenges, inclusive of orthopaedic management of common fractures, sports knee and shoulder injuries, hard parental conversations, controversies in concussions, and provocative social challenges to the American sports culture. This conference is designed for physicians providing sideline coverage, to surgeons who face technical operative challenges, to the role of Athletic Trainer Program Models in local high schools, and to the coaches’ perspective on return to sport. View Agenda

Key Topics

Youth concussion in contact sports

Most common upper and lower extremity fractures

ACL reconstructions and the physis

Shoulder injuries in the adolescent athlete

Return to play decision making

Audience 

This course is ideal for pediatric, orthopaedic, and trauma surgeons as well as emergency room physicians, pediatricians, primary care, physical therapists, athletic trainers and advanced practice providers who work with children.

Educational objectives

Following completion of this activity, learners should be better able to:

Apply current scientific evidence on Youth Concussions to counsel parents and kids about risks of participation in contact sports

Describe how to make a concussion assessment at the rink and during the follow-up period

Describe the diagnostic workup, interpretation and treatment considerations, in the management of common children’s fractures around the shoulder, elbow, knee and ankle, inclusive of return to sport decision making

Recognize the decision making process on ACL reconstruction in the youth population, as well as the operative indications and timing for surgery and technical variance from adult ACL surgery

Diagnose and manage the most common shoulder injuries in the competitive adolescent, from sideline injury to sport reintegration

USD

Group registrations not allowed

Accompanying persons not allowed

We don’t accept Online Abstracts

Minnesota History Center, St. Paul

345 West Kellogg Boulevard

St. Paul, MN 55102

Phone:651-259-3000

Submission Info

We gratefully acknowledge the following organizations for their financial contributions to this activity:

Stryker

Zimmer Biomet Davis

(List current as of 5/9/17)

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 Office of Continuing Professional Development , University of Minnesota Medical School

Phone: 800-776-8636 or 612-626-7600

Fax: 612-626-7766

Email: cme@umn.edu