80022916: 11th Annual Hopkins Cytopathology: A Team Approach (Successor to Mastering the Challenges of Cytopathology)

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ACCREDITATION STATEMENT The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. CREDIT DESIGNATION STATEMENT The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 21.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Description:
Continuing in the tradition of “Mastering the Challenges of Cytopathology,” “Hopkins Cytopathology: A Team Approach” exposes general pathologists, cytopathologists and cytotechnologists not only to selected problem areas in diagnostic cytopathology, but presents the advantage of working in an interdisciplinary mode. This year we have chosen three challenging diagnostic areas, Thyroid, Pancreas and Urinary Tract, in which close collaboration among radiologists, clinicians and pathologists produces beneficial results. In addition to didactic lectures by leading national experts on the subjects, individual glass slides are shown in real time using high definition video projection, eliminating the need for individual microscopes and allowing everyone to benefit from the discussion of the lecturer and immediate interaction with the registrants. The activity also includes topics that continue to present difficulties for the diagnostic cytologist, emphasizing ways to avoid mistakes. In the interest of resource conservation, we are providing the comprehensive activity syllabus on a USB flash drive during on-site registration. The syllabus will also be made available before the activity at a password-protected web server to allow registrants to review and print selected por tions for their use before or during the activity.

Objectives:
After attending this activity, the participant will demonstrate the ability to:
• Accurately evaluate cytologic changes in some of the more difficult areas of cytopathology
• Appreciate the importance of close collaboration among treating physicians, radiologists, and cytopathologists
• Apply new techniques to process and define these challenging samples
• Recognize the capabilities and limitations of Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA)
• Integrate immunocyto diagnosis with flow cytometry, molecular and genetic techniques in routine practice.

Talks

Policy On Speaker And Provider Disclosure

It is the policy of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine that the speaker and provider disclose real or apparent conflicts of interest relating to the topics of this educational activity, and also disclose discussions of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation(s). Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine OCME has established policies in place that will identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to this educational activity. Detailed disclosure will be made in the activity handout materials.