CME Survey 2011

CME POST ACTIVITY SURVEY:
2011 MS Society of Otolaryngology Annual Meeting 

The purpose of this survey is to request your assistance in evaluating the educational focus of the MSMA Foundation, Inc. CME activities and whether or not implementation of change in practice has been made.

Our records indicate that you attended the 2011 MS Society of Otolaryngology Annual Meeting on June 17-19, 2011. Please answer the following questions regarding this program.

As a reminder, here is a list of topics/objectives that were covered in the AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits(s)™ activity.

Topics:
1. Role of Surgery in Rhinosinusitis: Examining the role for the balloon – Bradley Marple, MD
2. Future Expectations for Otolaryngology in the seeing of Health Care Reform – Scott Stringer, MD
3. ATA Guidelines on Thyroid Nodule Evaluation – Charles Wilson, MD
4. Stereotactic Radiotherapy Applications in Otology – James House, MD
5. Techniques in Cartilage Tympanoplasty  - John Dornhoffer, MD
6. Should you work for the Giant? – Samuel Sprehe, MD
7. Update on Complications of Sinusitis – Scott Stringer, MD
8. ENT Med Mal Cases – Joseph Blackston, MD, JD
9. Transcranial Stimulation for Tinnitus – John Dornhoffer, MD
10. Sialendoscopy – current indications and techniques – J. Randall Jordan, MD
11. Management of Difficult Frontal Sinus Disease – Bradley Marple, MD
12. Minimally invasive parathyroiddectomy – Charles Wilson, MD
13. Ossiculplasty with Hybrid Prostheses – John Dornhoffer, MD
14. Sublingual Immunotherapy for Inhalant Allergies – Bradley Marple, MD
15. Disaster Planning for the Otolaryngologist – Samuel Sprehe, MD
16. Medical Legal Courts – Joseph Blackston, MD, JD

At the end of this program, the participants will be able to:
• Discuss the evolving role of surgery in the management of sinus disease.
• Review current evidence related to balloon catheter dilation.
• Discuss indications and patient selection.
• Understand coding and moving forward.
• Better understand health care economics and health care reform.
• More readily prepare for coming changes in the health care environment.
• Successfully evaluate practice restructuring options.
• Incorporate recent national and international guidelines regarding thyroid nodules into an ENT Practice.
• Learn which thyroid nodule ultrasound findings should warrant suspicion and further investigation.
• Learn appropriate FNA classification of thyroid nodules.
• Explain the rationale and pathophysiology of stereotatic radiation.
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of stereotactic radiation vs. surgery in acoustic neuroma management.
• Identify otologic conditions amenable to treatment with stereotactic radiotherapy.
• Be familiar with the surgical decision-making with cartilage tympanoplasty and indications for the two different techniques.
• Learn both the palisade and cartilage island flap techniques with regard to graft harvest, preparation, and placement with and without ossiculoplasty.
• Understand anticipated outcome and complication management, such as post-operative tube placement.
• Understand the move toward employment of physicians.
• Appreciate the unique role otolaryngologists enjoy, assess their individual careers and options.
• Develop a strategy to plan and negotiate a move into an employed position.
• Better recognize common and uncommon complications of sinusitis.
• Understand the evolving role of surgery in management of complications of sinusitis.
• Provide improved consultation on the complications of sinusitis.
• Improve knowledge of recent trends in medical malpractice in Mississippi.
• Increase awareness of driving forces for malpractice litigation
• Understand current concepts for the use of Transmagnetic Stimulation for the treatment of tinnitus.
• Discuss TMS and its use for tinnitus.
• Discuss future research and uses for TMS.
• Determine which patients with sialolothiasis are candidates for sialendoscopy and which are better managed by more traditional techniques.
• Become familiar with the current state of the technique of sialendoscopy.
• Understand the options for the treatment of recurrent pediatric parotitis.
• Understand the anatomy pertinent to frontal sinus surgery.
• Understand the variety of frontal procedures available to rhinologic surgeons.
• Understand differing roles that procedures may have for the treatment of various frontal pathology.
• Learn the common causes of hypercalcemia and how to eliminiate mimickers of a diagnosis of hyperparanthyroidism.
• Learn techniques of minimally invasive parathyroid surgery and appropriate surgical endpoints.
• Understand the anatomy of the ossicular chain.
• Understand techniques of ossicular reconstruction.
• Understand the influence of the middle ear environment on surgical outcome.
• Discuss the various routes of allergen specific immunotherapy administration.
• Summarize the history of SLIT development.
•  Describe the efficacy and safety if SLIT.
• Discuss a basic protocol for providing sublingual immunotherapy.
• Learn the four “D’s” of categories of disaster.
• If disaster struck, how light would your be on your feet? How quick could you fold your tent and move on, minimizing income loss.
• Assess how a disaster involving an associate may necessitate a plan to continue your career elsewhere.
• Increased awareness of role of the MS Court of Appeals and MS Supreme Court.
• Discuss mediation and arbitration as “alternative dispute resolution”.